This engaging interactive chess course is perfect for children and adult beginners alike. The course is divided into two main sections: learning the rules and playing the game. Over 500 carefully selected and, in many cases, specially designed examples will guide your learning.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary approach to chess instruction. The series offers courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all levels, from novice to expert and even professional players.
Through this course, you'll enhance your chess knowledge, discover new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and put your learning into practice.
The program acts as your personal coach, providing exercises and assistance when you need it. It offers hints, explanations, and even demonstrates striking refutations of potential errors.
The course also includes an interactive theoretical section, explaining game strategies at various stages using real-world examples. You can actively participate by making moves on the board and working through unclear positions.
Key Features:
- High-quality, thoroughly verified examples.
- Requires input of all key moves.
- Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
- Diverse objectives for problem-solving.
- Hints provided for errors.
- Refutations shown for common mistakes.
- Ability to play any exercise position against the computer.
- Interactive theoretical lessons.
- Well-structured table of contents.
- Tracks your ELO rating throughout the learning process.
- Customizable test mode.
- Option to bookmark favorite exercises.
- Tablet-optimized interface.
- Offline functionality.
- Linkable to a free Chess King account for cross-device access (Android, iOS, Web).
The course includes a free trial allowing you to experience the program’s full functionality before purchasing additional content. The free version includes:
- Introduction
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Chessboard
- 1.3 Chess Pieces
- 1.4 Starting Position
- Piece Movements
- 2.1 Rook
- 2.2 Bishop
- 2.3 Queen
- 2.4 Knight
- 2.5 King
- 2.6 Pawn
- Pawn Promotion
- Relative Piece Value
- The King's Role: Check and Mate
- 5.1 Check
- 5.2 Getting out of Check
- 5.3 Checkmate
- 5.4 Castling
- 5.5 Checkmate in One Move
- 5.6 Stalemate
- 5.7 Perpetual Check
- Capturing Pieces
- Chess Notation
- Basic Captures
- 8.1 Winning a Knight
- 8.2 Winning a Bishop
- 8.3 Winning a Rook
- 8.4 Winning a Queen
- 8.5 Winning a Piece
- Simple Defenses
- 9.1 Retreating
- 9.2 Defending with Another Piece
- 9.3 Capturing the Attacking Piece
- 9.4 Interception
- 9.5 Preventing Checkmate
- Chess Skills Development
- The King's Role (Continued)
- 11.1 Mate in 1
- 11.2 Mate in 2
- 11.3 Discovered Check
- 11.4 Double Check
- 11.5 Perpetual Check
- 11.6 Stalemate
- King and Queen vs. King
- King and Rook vs. King
- King and Minor Piece vs. King
- King and Pawn vs. King
- Game Etiquette
- Chess Mazes
- Enhanced training mode using Spaced Repetition, intelligently mixing erroneous exercises with new ones.
- Added the ability to run tests on bookmarked exercises.
- Introduced a daily puzzle goal to maintain skills.
- Implemented a daily streak counter.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
