Chess Strategy for Beginners

This comprehensive course explores a broad spectrum of chess topics spanning openings, middlegames, and endgames.

This interactive tutorial is designed for novice players, both children and adults, who know the rules of chess and aim to reach an intermediate skill level. It addresses a wide range of strategic and tactical concepts. You'll begin by learning how to deliver checkmate to a lone king and advance to more complex subjects like capitalizing on material or positional advantages. The course features 55 lessons packed with over 1200 instructive examples and exercises, effectively transforming a beginner into an intermediate player.

This program is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), an innovative chess instruction method. The series encompasses courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by skill level from beginner to advanced, and even professional.

Use this course to expand your chess understanding, master new tactical ideas and combinations, and apply your knowledge through practical exercises.

The program functions as a personal coach, assigning tasks and providing support when you're stuck. It offers hints, detailed explanations, and even demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.

A theoretical section is included, explaining key gameplay methods for specific game phases using real examples. This theory is presented interactively, allowing you to not only read the lessons but also practice moves on the board and explore variations.

Program Advantages:

♔ High-quality, thoroughly verified examples

♔ Requires input of all key teacher-specified moves

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in exercises

♔ Helpful hints provided after errors

♔ Refutations shown for typical mistakes

♔ Option to play any position against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Well-organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Tablet-optimized for larger screens

♔ Full offline functionality

♔ Sync 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 trial to evaluate the program. The lessons in the free version are fully functional, letting you test the app in real conditions before unlocking further 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 is on the edge)

1.6. Mating with bishop and knight (king is 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