Chess Strategy for Beginners

This course explores a comprehensive array of opening, middlegame, and endgame topics.

This interactive tutorial is designed for novice players—children and adults alike—who know the rules of chess and are ready to progress to an intermediate level. It spans a broad spectrum of opening, middlegame, and endgame principles, beginning with fundamental checkmates against a lone king and advancing to more complex strategies like capitalizing on material or positional advantages. The program features 55 lessons with over 1,200 instructional examples and exercises. This course effectively transforms a beginner into an intermediate player!

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series , an innovative chess instruction platform. The series encompasses courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for all skill levels from beginner and intermediate to advanced and even professional players.

Use this course to enhance your chess understanding, discover new tactical ideas and combinations, and apply your knowledge in practice.

The program functions as a personal coach: it assigns tasks, provides hints and explanations if you struggle, and even demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.

A theoretical section is also included, explaining key methods for each game phase through practical examples. The interactive theory lessons allow you not only to read the material but also to make moves on the board and explore variations.

Program advantages:

♔ High-quality examples, all verified for accuracy

♔ Requires entry of all key moves as instructed

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in exercises

♔ Helpful hints provided after errors

♔ Refutations shown for typical wrong moves

♔ Option to play any exercise position against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ 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 includes a free section to try out the program. The free lessons are fully functional, letting you evaluate the app before unlocking additional 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