Chess Strategy for Beginners

This curriculum explores a comprehensive variety 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 covers a broad spectrum of opening principles, middlegame strategies, and endgame techniques. The journey begins with fundamental checkmates against a lone king and advances to more complex concepts like converting a material or positional advantage. Featuring 55 lessons with over 1200 instructive examples and exercises, this course effectively transforms a beginner into an intermediate player.

This program is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a groundbreaking chess instruction method. The series encompasses courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by level from beginner and intermediate to advanced, even up to professional players.

Using this course will help you enhance your chess understanding, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply this knowledge in practice.

The application functions like a personal coach: it assigns tasks, provides hints if you're stuck, explains concepts, and even demonstrates compelling refutations for common mistakes.

The program also includes a theoretical section that explains gameplay methods for specific stages, using practical examples. This theory is presented interactively, allowing you not only to read the lesson text but also to make moves on the board and explore variations.

Program Advantages:

♔ High-quality examples, all thoroughly verified for accuracy

♔ Requires input of all key moves as instructed

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in exercises

♔ Helpful hints provided after an error

♔ Refutations shown for typical incorrect moves

♔ Ability to play any exercise position against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Well-organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning progress

♔ Customizable test mode with flexible settings

♔ Option to bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Tablet-optimized for larger screens

♔ Fully functional offline; no internet connection required

♔ Sync progress across devices: link the app to a free Chess King account to access one course simultaneously on Android, iOS, and Web

The course contains a free section to try the program. Lessons in the free version are fully functional, letting you evaluate the app in real conditions before accessing subsequent 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. Introduction to the 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. 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 - blends missed exercises with new ones to present an optimal set of puzzles.
* Added ability to run tests on bookmarked exercises.
* Added daily puzzle goal - choose how many exercises to solve to maintain your skills.
* Added daily streak counter - tracks consecutive days of completing your daily goal.
* Various fixes and improvements