Master Defensive Chess Strategies: A Beginner's Guide
New to chess? Focus on protecting your pieces! This crucial skill is the foundation of strong chess play. Learn essential defensive techniques like piece withdrawal, protection, interception, and counter-attacking opponent's pieces. Extensive practice is key, and this course delivers just that.
This comprehensive course, part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), offers over 2800 exercises, providing ample opportunity for beginners to rapidly improve their skills. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all levels, from novice to expert.
Learn with a Personalized Coach
This program functions as a personal chess tutor. It presents challenges, offers guidance when you're stuck, provides hints, explains solutions, and even demonstrates how to counter your mistakes.
Key Features:
- High-quality, verified exercises: Every example has been rigorously checked for accuracy.
- Active participation: You actively participate by inputting key moves, mirroring real gameplay.
- Adaptive difficulty: Exercises adjust to your skill level.
- Varied objectives: Each problem presents unique challenges.
- Helpful feedback: The program provides hints and refutations of incorrect moves.
- Practice mode: Play through any exercise against the computer.
- Organized structure: A clear, easy-to-navigate table of contents.
- ELO tracking: Monitor your progress with an ELO rating system.
- Flexible testing: Customize tests to your preferences.
- Bookmarking: Save your favorite exercises for later review.
- Tablet optimized: Designed for larger screens.
- Offline access: No internet connection required.
- Cross-platform syncing: Link to a free Chess King account to access your progress across Android, iOS, and web.
Free Trial Available
Test the program's capabilities with a free trial. This includes fully functional lessons covering:
- Piece Retreat
- Defending with Other Pieces
- Capturing Attacking Pieces
- Interception
- Preventing Checkmate
- Adjustable Difficulty
- Spaced Repetition Training: Combines past mistakes with new exercises for optimized learning.
- Bookmark Testing: Now you can create tests from your bookmarked exercises.
- Daily Goal Setting: Set a daily puzzle goal to maintain your skills.
- Daily Streak Tracking: Track your consecutive days of completing the daily goal.
- Various bug fixes and improvements
