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 undefended opponent pieces. The sheer volume of exercises provides intensive, rapid improvement.
Designed for players familiar with basic chess rules, even completing a fraction of the exercises significantly enhances tactical awareness. All exercises are derived from real games, categorized by piece type and difficulty.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a comprehensive chess education system. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, with varying difficulty levels catering to all skill sets, from novice to professional.
The course functions as a personalized coach, providing exercises, hints, explanations, and detailed refutations of common mistakes. Key features include:
- High-quality, verified exercises: All examples have been rigorously checked for accuracy.
- Comprehensive move input: Users must input all key moves as directed.
- Adjustable difficulty levels: Exercises are graded to match skill level.
- Diverse problem objectives: A variety of tactical goals are presented.
- Integrated error feedback: Hints and explanations are provided for incorrect moves.
- Refutation of errors: The program demonstrates effective counter-moves to mistakes.
- Computer play: Practice against the computer on any exercise position.
- Organized content: A structured table of contents allows easy navigation.
- ELO rating tracking: The program monitors and tracks player progress.
- Customizable testing: Flexible test settings are available.
- Bookmarking: Save favorite exercises for later review.
- Tablet compatibility: Optimized for larger tablet screens.
- Offline access: No internet connection is required.
- Multi-device syncing: Link to a free Chess King account for cross-platform access (Android, iOS, Web).
A free trial version is available, offering fully functional lessons to test the application before purchasing additional content. The free trial includes:
- Part 1: Winning a knight, bishop, rook, and queen.
- Part 2: Winning a piece (Levels 1-4)
What's New in Version 2.4.2 (Last updated Jul 15, 2023)
- Spaced Repetition Training: Combines previously missed exercises with new ones for optimized learning.
- Bookmark Testing: Ability to create tests from bookmarked exercises.
- Daily Puzzle Goal: Set a daily exercise target to maintain skills.
- Daily Streak Tracker: Tracks consecutive days of completing the daily goal.
- General improvements and bug fixes.
