Chess Strategy for Beginners

This interactive chess tutorial is perfect for beginners—children and adults alike—who already know the rules but want to improve to an intermediate level. The course comprehensively covers openings, middlegame, and endgame strategies. It begins with checkmating a lone king and progresses to advanced techniques like exploiting material or positional advantages. With over 1200 examples and exercises spread across 55 lessons, this course transforms beginners into intermediate players.

This course belongs to the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess teaching method. The series offers courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from novice to professional.

This program enhances chess understanding, introduces new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and reinforces learned concepts through practice. It functions as a personalized coach, assigning tasks, providing assistance when needed, offering hints, explanations, and even demonstrating refutations of common mistakes.

The course also includes an interactive theoretical section, using real-game examples to explain gameplay strategies at different stages. This interactive approach allows users to not only read lessons but also to make moves on the board and work through unclear situations.

Key Program Features:

• High-quality, verified examples.
• Requires input of all key teacher-designated moves.
• Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
• Diverse problem-solving objectives.
• Hints provided for errors.
• Refutations for typical mistakes.
• Play any position against the computer.
• Interactive theoretical lessons.
• Organized table of contents.
• Tracks player ELO rating progress.
• Customizable test mode.
• Ability to bookmark favorite exercises.
• Tablet-optimized interface.
• Offline functionality.
• Multi-device compatibility via free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web).

A free version is available to test the program. The free lessons are fully functional, allowing users to experience the application before purchasing additional content. Free content includes:

1. Utilizing a Decisive Material Advantage: Various checkmating scenarios (major pieces, rook, queen, bishops, knight combinations, etc.) and handling significant material advantages. Problem-solving techniques are also covered.

2. The Three Stages of a Chess Game: Opening principles (mobilization, center control, pawn structure), middlegame considerations, and basic endgame rules.

3. Basic Pawn Endings: Understanding the rule of the square, king assistance, opposition, and key squares.

4. Fundamentals of Chess Tactics: A wide array of tactical methods, including double attacks, forks, pins, discovered attacks/checks, the mill, double checks, decoys, blocking, smothered mates, distractions, back-rank weaknesses, and square/line clearance.

5. Utilizing a Material or Positional Advantage: Strategies for capitalizing on advantages.