Chess Combinations Vol. 2

Elevate your chess game with the second installment of our comprehensive course designed specifically for club players. This part of the series offers over 2600 exercises, including more than 400 instructive examples and 2200 challenging problems to solve. These exercises are meticulously categorized into 60 different tactical methods and motifs, ensuring a thorough understanding of chess tactics.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), renowned for its innovative approach to chess education. The series encompasses a wide range of topics from tactics to strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for players of all skill levels, from beginners to professionals.

With this course, you'll have the opportunity to enhance your chess knowledge, master new tactical techniques and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical scenarios. The program serves as a personal coach, presenting you with tasks and guiding you through solutions, providing hints, explanations, and even showing you how to refute common mistakes.

The course features a theoretical section that delves into various game stages using real-life examples. This section is presented interactively, allowing you not only to read the lesson texts but also to make moves on the board and work through unclear positions.

Key benefits of the program include:

• High-quality, double-checked examples for accuracy
• Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
• Varied levels of task complexity
• Diverse objectives within the problems
• Immediate hints for errors
• Refutations for typical mistakes
• Ability to play out any task position against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• Monitoring of ELO rating changes during your learning journey
• Flexible test mode settings
• Option to bookmark favorite exercises
• Optimized for tablet screens
• No internet connection required
• Sync your progress across multiple devices with a free Chess King account on Android, iOS, and Web

You can try out the program with a free section, which includes fully functional lessons to give you a real-world experience before you dive into the full course. The free version covers topics such as:

1. Forcing moves
   1. Forced checkmate
   2. Double attack
   3. Linear attack
   4. Discovered attack
   5. Pin
   6. Elimination of defense
   7. Conjunction of several themes
2. Deflection
   1. Deflection checkmate
   2. Deflection of a piece
   3. Diversion from the invasion square
   4. Piece on a critical square
   5. Diversion in conjunction with a double attack
   6. Diversion from defending square
   7. Diversion from the promotion square
   8. Diversion from the advance square
   9. Diversion of a pinning piece
   10. Deflection blocking piece
   11. Diversion from a key square
   12. Diverting a defending piece
   13. Diversion in conjunction with a linear attack
3. Decoying
   1. Decoying mate
   2. Decoying a king in conjunction with a chase
   3. Decoying into a mating net
   4. Decoying under a double attack
   5. Decoying under a linear attack
   6. Decoying under a discovered attack
   7. Decoying under a discovered attack with check
   8. Decoying discovered check
   9. Decoying under a double check
   10. Decoying to a critical square
   11. Decoying under pin
   12. Decoying into a trap
   13. Decoy in conjunction with promoting pawn
   14. Decoying under check
   15. Decoying for the gain of tempo
   16. Decoying onto an unfavourable line
   17. Decoying into a stalemate position
4. Exercises with conjunction of several themes
5. Elimination of defense
6. Blockade
7. Clearing the checkmating square
8. Interference
9. Clearing the line
10. Opening the line
11. Pin
12. Restricting
13. Threat
14. Conquering a square
15. Exercises. Conjunction of tactical devices

What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jul 11, 2023:

• Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
• Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
• Added daily goal for puzzles - choose how many exercises you need to keep your skills in shape.
• Added daily streak - track how many days in a row you complete your daily goal.
• Various fixes and improvements.