This comprehensive course addresses a broad spectrum of opening, middlegame, and endgame topics.
This interactive tutorial is designed for novice players, both children and adults, who know the rules of chess and aim to reach an intermediate skill level. It explores a wide array of opening, middlegame, and endgame themes. Beginning with fundamental checkmates against a lone king, it advances to more complex strategies like converting material or positional advantages. The program features 55 lessons with over 1200 instructive examples and exercises, effectively guiding a beginner to intermediate proficiency.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series, an innovative chess instruction method. The series encompasses courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for all levels from beginner to expert, including professionals.
Using this course will enhance your chess understanding, introduce you to new tactical motifs and combinations, and help you apply this knowledge in practice.
The program functions as a personal coach, assigning tasks and providing assistance when you're stuck. It offers hints, detailed explanations, and demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.
A theoretical section is included, explaining key game concepts for each phase with practical examples. This theory is interactive, allowing you not only to read the lesson text but also to make moves on the board and experiment with unclear positions.
Program advantages:
♔ High-quality, double-checked examples
♔ Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed
♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels
♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in exercises
♔ Helpful hints provided after errors
♔ Refutations shown for typical wrong moves
♔ Option to play any task position against the computer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Well-structured table of contents
♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning
♔ Customizable test mode
♔ Bookmark favorite exercises
♔ Tablet-optimized for larger screens
♔ Fully functional offline
♔ Sync progress across devices by linking to a free Chess King account on Android, iOS, and Web
The course includes a free section to evaluate the program. Lessons in the free version are fully functional, letting you test the app before accessing further topics:
1. Utilizing a decisive material advantage
1.1. Mating with major pieces
1.2. Mating with a rook
1.3. Mating with a queen
1.4. Mating with two bishops
1.5. Mating with bishop and knight (king on the edge)
1.6. Mating with bishop and knight (king in the center)
1.7. Mating with two knights
1.8. Different kinds of large material advantage
1.9. How to solve chess problems
2. The three stages of a chess game
2.1. How to play in the opening
2.2. Quick mobilization of forces
2.3. Fighting for the center
2.4. Harmonious pawn structure
2.5. What to do after the opening?
2.6. About endgame
2.7. Basic endgame rules
3. Basic pawn endings
3.1. The rule of the square
3.2. More about the rule of the square
3.3. The king helps the pawn
3.4. Opposition
3.5. The key squares
4. The fundamentals of chess tactics
4.1. Tactical methods
4.2. Combination and its components
4.3. Double attack
4.4. Knight and pawn forks
4.5. Exploiting a pin
4.6. How to fight against pins
4.7. Discovered attack
4.8. Discovered check
4.9. "Mill"
4.10. Double check
4.11. Decoy
4.12. Blocking
4.13. Smothered mate
4.14. Distraction
4.15. Weakness of the back rank
4.16. Square clearance
4.17. Line clearance
5. Utilizing a material or positional advantage
What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Jul 24, 2024 Added Spaced Repetition training mode - merges missed exercises with new ones to deliver an optimal puzzle set.
* Added ability to run tests on bookmarks.
* Added daily puzzle goal - set your target to maintain skills.
* Added daily streak counter for consecutive days meeting your goal.
\ Various fixes and improvements
