Description

This course is an interactive tutorial forthose unexperienced players, both children and adults, who havealready learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players ofintermediate strength.
This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgamesubjects. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the loneking and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing amaterial or positional advantage. This program includes 55lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples andexercises.
This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!

This course is in the series Chess King Learn(https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chessteaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics,strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels frombeginners to experienced players, and even professionalplayers.

With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge,learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate theacquired knowledge into practice.

The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps tosolve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanationsand show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you mightmake.

The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains themethods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actualexamples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, whichmeans you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also tomake moves on the board and work out unclear moves on theboard.

Advantages of the program:
♔ High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness
♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
♔ Different levels of complexity of the tasks
♔ Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems
♔ The program gives hint if an error is made
♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown
♔ You can play out any position of the tasks against thecomputer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Structured table of contents
♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the playerduring the learning process
♔ Test mode with flexible settings
♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises
♔ The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet
♔ The application does not require an internet connection

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program.Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allowyou to test the application in real world conditions beforereleasing the following 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. Harmonius 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
4.18. Annihilation of defense
4.19. Interception
4.20. Intermediate blow
4.21. Intermediate check
4.22. Play for a stalemate
4.23. More about play for a stalemate
5. Utilizing a material or positional advantage