If you're a chess beginner, you simply can't afford to lose your pieces in just one move, especially if you're serious about enhancing your gameplay. Equally important is seizing the opportunity to capture an opponent's undefended piece. This course, featuring over 1400 exercises with minimal pieces on the board, is perfect for accelerating the training of chess novices. Designed for players familiar with the basic rules, this extensive collection of exercises ensures that even if you tackle just 20% of them, you'll significantly improve your chess skills and never miss a chance to snatch an undefended piece during real games. All exercises are derived from practical games and organized by piece type and difficulty level.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers a groundbreaking approach to chess education. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to players from beginner to professional levels.
By using this course, you can enhance your chess understanding, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply what you've learned in your games. The program serves as a personal coach, presenting tasks and assisting you if you encounter difficulties. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates the consequences of potential mistakes.
Key benefits of the program include:
- High-quality, double-checked examples
- Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed
- Varied levels of task complexity
- Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
- Hints provided upon errors
- Refutations shown for common mistakes
- Ability to play out any position against the computer
- Structured table of contents
- Monitoring of ELO rating changes during learning
- Flexible test mode settings
- Option to bookmark favorite exercises
- Optimization for larger tablet screens
- No internet connection required
- Linking to a free Chess King account for multi-device access on Android, iOS, and Web
The course offers a free section, enabling you to experience the program's functionality before exploring the full range of topics:
- Part 1
- Winning a knight
- Winning a bishop
- Winning a rook
- Winning a queen
- Part 2. Win a piece
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
- Level 4
What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2
Last updated on Jul 15, 2023
- Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition, which integrates erroneous exercises with new ones to present a tailored set of puzzles.
- Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
- Introduced a daily puzzle goal to help maintain your skills.
- Included a daily streak feature to track consecutive days of achieving the daily goal.
- Various fixes and improvements.