Simple Defense

As a beginner, learning to protect your pieces is essential!

For those starting out, a fundamental chess skill is learning how to defend your pieces from capture. Every player must master basic defensive techniques like retreating a piece, protecting it with another piece, capturing an attacking piece, or intercepting an opponent's threat. By practicing a large number of exercises, you can solidify this knowledge and improve your overall game. This course offers over 2800 exercises featuring crowded board positions, making it an excellent tool for the rapid training of chess novices.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a groundbreaking chess instruction method. The series includes comprehensive courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by skill level from beginner to professional.

Use this course to enhance your chess understanding, learn new tactical ideas and combinations, and put that knowledge into practice.

The program acts as your personal coach: it assigns exercises and provides support when you're stuck. You'll receive hints, explanations, and even see refutations for common mistakes.

Program advantages:

♔ High-quality, double-checked examples

♔ Requires input of all key moves specified by the trainer

♔ Tasks at varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in each problem

♔ Helpful hints provided after an error

♔ Refutations shown for typical incorrect moves

♔ Option to play out any position against the computer

♔ Clear, structured table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your training

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark your favorite exercises

♔ Optimized for tablet displays

♔ No internet connection required

♔ Sync your progress across devices by linking the app to a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web)

The course includes a free section to evaluate the program. The free lessons are fully functional, letting you test the app under real conditions before unlocking the following topics:

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Capturing an attacking piece

4. Interception

5. Defending against checkmate

6. Mixed difficulty