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For chess coaches, teachers, and parents

Teach a complete chess curriculum without writing a single lesson plan

The CCS Learning Library is 30 ready-to-teach chess lessons, each with its own homework pack, from “how the pieces move” all the way to basic rook endgames. Open the PDF, teach the lesson, send the homework home.

Get the CCS Learning Library Full Library £97 ($125), or £27 ($35) per module. Instant download. 14-day guarantee.
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Pick the modules you need, or take the lot. Teach from interactive PDFs on screen, print them for the table, and send a homework pack home after every lesson. One payment, and the files are yours to teach from for as long as you like.

Chess Cheat Sheets has helped 10,000+ players in 20 countries since 2021.

  • Instant download
  • One payment, no subscription
  • Interactive and printable PDFs
  • 14-day guarantee
  • 30 lessons in five modulesFrom a student’s very first move to endgames
  • A homework pack for every lessonSo students keep improving between sessions
  • Interactive and printable PDFsTeach on screen, or print for the table
  • Works anywhere you teach1-to-1 coaching, group classes, school clubs, and lessons at home
  • Instant downloadNothing to install, ready for your next lesson
  • One paymentNo subscription to keep teaching from it

You didn’t become a coach to spend your evenings building worksheets

It’s 9pm. You’ve got a beginner group at 4 tomorrow, an improver at 5, and you still don’t know what you’re teaching either of them.

So you open YouTube, a Lichess study, three half-finished documents, and a folder called “lessons NEW final 2”. An hour later you’ve got half a lesson, and you’re making the knight’s-move explanation for the fifth time this year.

Sound familiar?

The hidden cost of planning from scratch

  • Prep eats the hours you don’t get paid for, so every extra student costs you another evening
  • Each student ends up on a slightly different path, so you’re never quite sure what they’ve missed
  • Homework is an afterthought, or doesn’t exist, so progress stalls the moment the lesson ends
  • Parents ask “what are they actually learning?” and you’ve got nothing tangible to show them
  • Your income is capped by hours, and prep is the reason you can’t take on more

Parents don’t judge coaching by your rating. They judge it by whether they can see progress. No structure and no homework means no visible progress, and students who can’t see themselves improving drift away.

Or you’re a parent who just wants your child to get better

Your child loves chess, or wants to. You don’t play much yourself, so you don’t know where to start.

YouTube is a maze of random videos with no order. A regular coach is a serious weekly cost. Apps hand out puzzles without ever explaining the ideas behind them.

So your child plateaus, you feel like you’re letting them down, and the spark fades.

It doesn’t have to go that way. The same structured path a coach would follow is sitting in one download, one lesson and one homework pack at a time.

What if the whole curriculum was already built?

Imagine opening a lesson, teaching it, and handing out the homework, with nothing to plan, nothing to hunt for, and nothing to make from scratch.

That’s the CCS Learning Library: a complete, ordered chess curriculum of 30 lessons, each with a homework pack, ready to teach from the moment you download it.

How it works

Open it. Teach it. Send it home.

01

Open it

Pick the next lesson in the sequence. It’s an interactive PDF you can teach from on screen, or print for the table.

02

Teach it

Each lesson builds on the last, so your students never hit a gap and you never wonder what to cover next.

03

Send it home

Every lesson has its own homework pack, so students practice between sessions and parents can see what’s being learned.

A student who starts out not knowing how the pieces move can work their way through checkmates, tactics, pawn structure, and endgames, one lesson at a time.

Without the Library

  • Hours of planning before every lesson
  • Every student on a different, patchy path
  • Homework when you remember
  • Parents guessing what they’re paying for
  • An extra student means an extra evening of prep

With the Library

  • Open the next lesson and teach
  • One clear sequence, no gaps
  • A homework pack for every lesson
  • Parents see the curriculum and the progress
  • An extra student means an extra lesson to teach
What’s inside

5 modules. 30 lessons. A homework pack for every one

Every lesson comes as an interactive PDF to teach from on screen, a printable PDF for the table, and a homework pack to send home.

Module 1: Foundations8 lessons

For brand-new players: the board, the pieces, the rules, and their first checkmates.

  1. The Chessboard & Pieces
  2. How the Pieces Move
  3. Attacking & Capturing
  4. The Pawn
  5. Check & Getting Out of Check
  6. Checkmate
  7. Delivering Checkmate
  8. Special Moves & Game Rules
Module 2: Material & Defence4 lessons

How to win material, keep what you’ve got, and trade wisely.

  1. Winning Material
  2. Defending Your Pieces
  3. Exchanges
  4. Activity of the Pieces
Module 3: Tactics7 lessons

The patterns that win games, taught one at a time.

  1. Checks, Captures & Threats
  2. Double Attacks
  3. Pins
  4. Discovered Attacks
  5. Removing the Defender
  6. Mating Patterns
  7. Mate in Two
Module 4: Positional Foundations6 lessons

Plans and structure, so students stop playing move by move.

  1. Developing Your Pieces
  2. The Centre & Space
  3. Pawn Structure
  4. Passed Pawns
  5. Pawn Breaks
  6. Planning & Improving Your Position
Module 5: Endgames5 lessons

How to convert a won position instead of throwing it away.

  1. Introduction to Endgames
  2. King & Pawn Endgames
  3. Opposition
  4. Pawn Races
  5. Basic Rook Endgames

And the Library keeps growing. More modules, including openings, are planned for the future.

Built for the people who do the teaching

Chess coaches

Run 1-to-1 lessons and group classes from a finished curriculum. Spend your time teaching and building your student list, not planning at night. Give every student homework, and give every parent something they can see.

School teachers and club leaders

Run a lunchtime or after-school chess club with a ready-made syllabus, so you’re not inventing a term’s worth of lessons from scratch.

Parents

Teach your child yourself, or use it alongside a coach. You get the same structured path a coach would follow, one lesson and one homework pack at a time, without a coach’s weekly cost.

This probably isn’t for you if...

  • You need advanced opening theory or training for strong tournament players
  • You’d rather build every lesson yourself from scratch

The Library takes students from their first move to confident club-level fundamentals.

Choose your packs

Build your Library

Pick the modules you need, or take everything and save. Every module includes all its lessons and homework packs.

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Instant download. One payment. 14-day guarantee.

Teach with it for 14 days. If it doesn’t save you time, you get your money back

Use the Library with at least one real student or class. If it hasn’t saved you preparation time, email me which lessons you tried and what didn’t work, and I’ll refund you in full.

You keep the files either way.

The only thing I ask is that you actually try it. Email info@chesscheatsheets.com within 14 days of buying.

A quick note from me

Hi, I’m James, the guy behind Chess Cheat Sheets.

I started CCS in 2021 because I could never be bothered learning chess the “proper” way. Dense books, heavy theory, no structure. So I made practical, quick resources instead, and they’ve now helped over 10,000 players in 20 countries.

The more I looked at how chess gets taught, the more obvious it was that the people doing the teaching were stuck with the same problem: no ready-made, step-by-step path. Every coach and parent was rebuilding it from scratch, lesson by lesson. That’s a lot of hours that could go into actually teaching.

The idea is the same one that’s always driven CCS: skip the hard, tedious part and get straight to the useful part. For coaches, the tedious part is the planning. So I took it off your plate.

If it saves you a few evenings a month, it’s done its job.

James, Chess Cheat Sheets

Questions, answered

What format are the lessons in?
Interactive PDFs you can teach from on screen, and printable PDFs for the table. Instant download, and you can use them on any device. The interactive features work best in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or a modern browser such as Chrome, and the printable versions work anywhere.
What level and age are they for?
The Foundations module assumes no chess knowledge at all, and the later modules build up from there, all the way to basic rook endgames. The lessons are designed for children from around 6 and up, and work just as well for adult beginners.
Can I use it with all my students and in group classes?
Yes. Use it with your own students and classes, and print as many copies as they need. The files are licensed for your own teaching, so you can’t resell them or share them with other coaches. Running a school or club programme? Get in touch about a wider licence.
Do I need to be a strong player to teach from it?
No. The Library gives you the structure and the content, so you’re not building lessons yourself. You bring the teaching.
Can I buy modules separately?
Yes, each module is £27 ($35). Keep all five ticked and the Full Library price applies automatically, bringing the total to £97 ($125).
What’s the difference between the modules and Homework Packs Only?
Each module includes its lessons and its homework packs. Homework Packs Only is £47 ($60) and gives you the homework for the whole curriculum with no lessons, for coaches who already have their own lesson content. Homework packs are sold as a complete set.
Is this a subscription?
No. The Library is a one-time payment. The Updates Licence is optional, costs £27 ($35) a year, and you can cancel it any time.
What does the Updates Licence include?
Every update and improvement to the lessons and homework packs you own for 12 months, plus any new modules released during that time, such as openings.
Will you add more modules?
More modules, including openings, are planned for the future.
Can parents use it without a coach?
Yes. The lessons are ready to teach from, so a parent can work through them at home, or use them alongside a coach.

Your next lesson is already written

You can keep spending your evenings planning, or you can open a lesson, teach it, and send the homework home. Pick your packs, teach from them for 14 days, and see how much time you get back.

Choose your packs
  • 30 lessons and homework packs
  • One payment, no subscription
  • Interactive and printable
  • 14-day guarantee

P.S. The Full Library is £97 ($125), which works out at about £3.23 per lesson, homework pack included. Save yourself one evening of planning and it’s paid for itself. And if it doesn’t save you time, you get the lot back.