This chess training course boasts over 1400 exercises focusing on tactical situations with a limited number of pieces on the board. Perfect for beginners, it emphasizes the crucial skills of avoiding piece sacrifices and capitalizing on opponent's weaknesses. The sheer volume of exercises makes it an ideal tool for rapid skill development.
Designed for those familiar with basic chess rules, even completing a fraction of the exercises (20%) will significantly improve your game, particularly in recognizing and seizing undefended pieces. All exercises are derived from real games and categorized by piece type and difficulty.
Part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course utilizes a unique teaching method. The series offers comprehensive training in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from novice to professional.
This course enhances chess understanding, introduces new tactical maneuvers, and reinforces learned concepts through practical application. The program functions as a personalized coach, providing tasks, hints, explanations, and detailed refutations of potential errors.
Key Features:
- High-quality, rigorously verified exercises.
- Requires input of all key moves.
- Varied difficulty levels.
- Diverse problem-solving objectives.
- Provides hints and error correction.
- Illustrates refutations of common mistakes.
- Allows playing against the computer.
- Organized table of contents.
- Tracks ELO rating progress.
- Flexible test settings.
- Bookmarking functionality.
- Tablet-optimized interface.
- Offline access.
- Multi-device compatibility via Chess King account.
A free trial version is available, allowing full access to sample lessons to assess the program before purchasing additional content. The free portion includes lessons covering winning knights, bishops, rooks, and queens, as well as piece-winning exercises at various difficulty levels (Levels 1-4).
Version 2.4.2 Updates (Jul 15, 2023):
- Incorporated Spaced Repetition System (SRS) training, intelligently mixing old and new exercises.
- Added testing capabilities for bookmarked exercises.
- Introduced a daily exercise goal for skill maintenance.
- Implemented a daily streak counter.
- General bug fixes and performance improvements.
