A chess course for club players (1600-2000 Elo), built upon the acclaimed textbook by V. Golenishchev.
This training program for club-level players is derived from a textbook by renowned Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev. The original content is enriched with illustrative games from leading players in recent major tournaments, organized into structured lessons. The course covers 57 key themes, each combining theory and practical exercises. The theoretical section features over 400 illustrative game examples, while the practical part offers more than 200 puzzles of varying difficulty.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which represents a groundbreaking approach to chess instruction. The series encompasses comprehensive courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for all levels—from beginners and club players to experienced masters and professionals.
Utilizing this course will help you expand your chess understanding, master new tactical motifs and combinations, and solidify this knowledge through practical application.
The program functions like a personal coach: it assigns tasks, provides assistance if you're stuck, and offers hints, detailed explanations, and even demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.
A comprehensive theoretical section is included, explaining strategic and tactical methods for specific game phases using real-game examples. This theory is presented interactively, allowing you not only to read the lesson material but also to make moves on the board and analyze unclear variations yourself.
Program advantages:
♔ High-quality examples, all thoroughly verified for accuracy
♔ Requires input of all key moves as intended by the instructor
♔ Tasks graded by multiple levels of difficulty
♔ Diverse objectives to achieve within the puzzles
♔ Contextual hints provided after mistakes
♔ Demonstrates refutations for typical errors
♔ Ability to play out any exercise position against the computer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Clearly structured table of contents
♔ Tracks changes in your playing rating (ELO) throughout the course
♔ Flexible test mode with customizable settings
♔ Option to bookmark favorite exercises
♔ Fully optimized for tablet displays
♔ Functions entirely offline
♔ Sync your progress across devices: link the app to a free Chess King account to access one course simultaneously on Android, iOS, and Web
The course includes a free introductory section to evaluate the program. The lessons in the free version are fully functional, letting you test the application in real conditions before accessing the following topics:
1. Attacking the king in the center
2. Attacking the king when both sides castle on the same flank
3. Attacking the king with opposite-side castling
4. General king attack principles
5. Common calculation errors
6. Training calculation technique
7. "Good" versus "bad" bishops
8. Situations where the bishop outperforms the knight
9. Situations where the knight outperforms the bishop
10. Opposite-colored bishops in the middlegame
11. Restricting an opponent's piece
12. Utilizing open and semi-open files
13. Open files and king attacks
14. Establishing an outpost on an open file
15. The battle for an open file
16. The power of a strong pawn center
17. Undermining a pawn center
18. Countering a pawn center with pieces
19. The interplay of pieces and pawns in the center
20. Using the center to support flank operations
21. The two-bishop advantage in the middlegame
22. The two-bishop advantage in the endgame
23. How to combat a bishop pair
24. Identifying weak points in your opponent's position
25. Weaknesses in a complex of squares
26. Key concepts of strong points
27. Exploiting pawn weaknesses
28. Handling doubled pawns
29. Targeting a backward pawn on a semi-open file
30. The dynamics of a passed pawn
31. Queen versus two rooks
32. Queen versus rook and minor piece
33. Queen versus three minor pieces
34. Understanding material compensation for a queen
35. Two rooks versus three minor pieces
36. Two minor pieces versus a rook (with pawns)
What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2
* Added functionality to run tests on bookmarked exercises.
* Implemented a daily puzzle goal – set your target to maintain sharp skills.
* Added a daily streak counter – tracks consecutive days of meeting your goal.
* Various bug fixes and general improvements
