Basics before brilliance
This lesson uses chess positions. Until you have played a little, its board questions are worked examples to read. New to chess? Play your first moves (five minutes), then learn it from the beginning.
Opening principles are the basics of chess. Off the board, doing the basics first becomes a habit only if you practise it there too, as this week’s task asks.
You were part-way through this lesson, at step 1 of 7.