903 lessons · included

Homeschool Chess Curriculum

152 chapters and 903 lessons, Any age · 13 levels, written by our faculty and included in every plan. Already own a Chess book? Send us its table of contents and we schedule and grade it exactly like ours.

THSF Chess

Included

Written by our faculty · puzzle-based + play

Grades
Any age · 13 levels
Chapters
152
Lessons
903
Time per day
15-20 min
Cost

Included in your subscription — every grade, every lesson, for every kid on your account.

Nothing extra to buy, and no per-child or per-subject fee.

How it teaches

  • Played on a real board in the lesson, and every move is checked against the actual rules of chess rather than a picture of a position
  • Organised in thirteen levels rather than school grades, so a child who has never played starts at Level 1 whatever their age — no eleven-year-old is asked to sit in a course labelled Kindergarten
  • 903 lessons from the first piece to annotating a real game
  • No opponent needed and no club to drive to; a child can start on a Tuesday afternoon
Who it fits
Families who want chess taught properly rather than just letting a child play the computer

Already bought Chess? Bring it with you.

Most families arriving here already own something. You do not have to throw it away to use Homeschool Factory, and you do not have to choose between it and ours. Tell us the Chess book you have and we turn it into a real, scheduled course — the same lessons, planner and records everything else here runs on.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    You show us the contents page

    A photo of the table of contents is enough — the page at the front listing the chapters and units. Title and edition works too.

  2. Step 2
    We read it chapter by chapter

    We scan that contents list and turn each chapter and section into real lessons, in the order the book teaches them, at a pace that fits your year.

  3. Step 3
    It runs like anything else here

    Scheduled into the planner, ticked off per kid, and counted in your records exactly like a course we wrote ourselves.

Included in every plan. No limit on how many books you bring, and no extra charge per book or per child.

Chess programs families bring us

If yours is on this list, it works. If it is not, it almost certainly still works — these are just the ones we see most.

  • ChessKid — the kid-safe playing and puzzle site
  • Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess — the classic beginner workbook
  • The Steps Method — the Dutch workbook series coaches use
  • Chess for Children — Murray Chandler's introduction
  • Lichess — the free puzzles and practice

We are not affiliated with any of these publishers, we do not sell their books, and nothing here is a ranking of them. They are listed because a family may already own one.

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We are not affiliated with any publisher named on this page, we do not sell their books, and nothing here ranks or rates them. They are listed because a family may already own one and we can bring it in. We deliberately quote no prices for them — those change, and a stale figure of ours is worse to a parent than no figure at all. Everything described as “Included” is our own work and is covered by one subscription, for every subject and every child on the account.