Chess Strategy for Beginners

This comprehensive course addresses a wide 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 are ready to progress to an intermediate skill level. It covers a broad range of opening, middlegame, and endgame principles. The journey begins with learning to checkmate a lone king and advances to more complex strategic concepts, like converting a material or positional edge. The program features 55 lessons with over 1200 instructive examples and exercises. This course effectively transforms a beginner into an intermediate player!

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

Using this course, you can enhance your chess understanding, learn new tactical ideas and combinations, and apply this knowledge in practice.

The program functions as a personal coach, assigning tasks and providing assistance when you're stuck. It offers hints, explanations, and even demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.

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

Key benefits of the program:

♔ High-quality examples, all verified for accuracy

♔ Requires entry of all key teacher-recommended moves

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in exercises

♔ Helpful hints provided after errors

♔ Refutations shown for typical incorrect moves

♔ Ability to play out any exercise position against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Structured table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Option to bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Tablet-optimized for larger screens

♔ Fully functional offline

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

The course offers a free section to try the program. Lessons in the free version are fully functional, letting you evaluate the app before unlocking 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 - it mixes previously missed exercises with new ones, presenting an optimal set of puzzles.
* Added ability to run tests on bookmarked exercises.
* Added daily puzzle goal - set how many exercises you need to solve to maintain your skills.
* Added daily streak counter - tracks consecutive days of meeting your daily goal.
* Various fixes and improvements