Mark Dvoretsky is renowned as the world's leading chess trainer. His pupils, including Artur Yusupov, Nana Aleksandria, Sergey Dolmatov, and Aleksey Dreev, have achieved significant success, winning World and European championships in their youth and later earning Grandmaster titles. Some even participated in candidates' matches for the world championship. The secret behind the success of many Soviet Grandmasters can be attributed to Dvoretsky's effective training methods and his unique exercise cardfile. This cardfile contains numerous highly instructive positional exercises and tasks designed to develop essential skills for practical play, such as positional feeling, imagination, calculation technique, setting traps, and making favorable exchanges at the right moment.
Previously exclusive to his select students, this cardfile has now been digitized, classified, and verified, making it accessible to aspiring chess players everywhere. This resource is particularly beneficial for advanced players, from experts to grandmasters. The computerized system introduces modern training techniques that were previously unavailable or limited to direct coaching sessions. It offers top-quality material that can significantly enhance the playing level of chess players and educators for years to come.
The course, part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), includes 200 meticulously chosen exercises tailored for expert, master, and advanced players (ELO 2000 – 2400) covering key chess themes:
- Strategy and Plan
- Calculation of Variations
- Endgame Technique
- Defending Inferior Positions
This series encompasses courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored to various skill levels from beginners to professionals.
Utilizing this course, players can enhance their chess knowledge, learn new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply their skills in practice. The program functions as a coach, presenting tasks and assisting with solutions when needed. It offers hints, explanations, and even striking refutations of potential mistakes.
Advantages of the Program:
- High-quality examples, all double-checked for correctness
- Requirement to enter all key moves as directed by the coach
- Varied levels of task complexity
- Diverse objectives to achieve in problems
- Hint provision upon errors
- Display of refutations for common mistakes
- Ability to play out any task position against the computer
- Structured table of contents
- Monitoring of player's ELO rating changes during learning
- Flexible test mode settings
- Option to bookmark favorite exercises
- Adaptability to larger tablet screens
- No internet connection required
- Compatibility with a free Chess King account, allowing course access across multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web platforms
The course offers a free section where users can experience the program's functionality before unlocking further topics, which include:
- Training system by Mark Dvoretsky 1.1. Strategy and plan 1.2. Calculating variations 1.3. Endgame technique 1.4. Defense in bad positions
What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Aug 3, 2024:
- Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition, which integrates erroneous exercises with new ones to present a more suitable set of puzzles.
- Added the ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
- Introduced a daily goal for puzzles, allowing users to set the number of exercises needed to maintain their skills.
- Added a daily streak feature to track consecutive days of meeting the daily goal.
- Various fixes and improvements.
