The second installment of our highly acclaimed chess course for club players is designed to further elevate your skills with over 2600 exercises. This part features more than 400 detailed examples to explore and an extensive 2200 exercises to solve, all categorized into 60 tactical methods and motifs. This comprehensive course is a part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), renowned for its groundbreaking approach to chess education. The series spans across various aspects of the game, including tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to players from beginners to professionals.

With this course, you'll not only expand your chess knowledge but also master new tactical tricks and combinations, seamlessly applying them in your gameplay. Acting as your personal coach, the program presents you with challenges to solve and provides assistance when you're stuck, offering hints, explanations, and even showcasing compelling refutations of common errors.

The course includes a theoretical section that delves into game strategies at various stages, illustrated through real-life examples. The theory is presented interactively, allowing you to engage directly with the material by making moves on the board and experimenting with unclear positions.

Here are the key advantages of the program:

• ♔ High-quality examples, meticulously double-checked for accuracy
• ♔ Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
• ♔ Exercises with varying levels of complexity
• ♔ Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
• ♔ Immediate hints provided upon making an error
• ♔ Illustrations of refutations for common mistakes
• ♔ Option to play out any task position against the computer
• ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
• ♔ Organized table of contents
• ♔ Monitoring of the player's ELO rating changes throughout the learning process
• ♔ Flexible test mode settings
• ♔ Ability to bookmark favorite exercises
• ♔ Adaptation to larger tablet screens
• ♔ No need for an internet connection
• ♔ Integration with a free Chess King account for multi-device learning on Android, iOS, and Web

The course offers a free section where you can experience the full functionality of the program before committing to further topics. The free version includes lessons on forcing moves, deflection, decoying, and more, ensuring you get a thorough taste of what the course has to offer:

1. Forcing moves
   1. Forced checkmate
   2. Double attack
   3. Linear attack
   4. Discovered attack
   5. Pin
   6. Elimination of defense
   7. Conjunction of several themes
2. Deflection
   1. Deflection checkmate
   2. Deflection of a piece
   3. Diversion from the invasion square
   4. Piece on a critical square
   5. Diversion in conjunction with a double attack
   6. Diversion from defending square
   7. Diversion from the promotion square
   8. Diversion from the advance square
   9. Diversion of a pinning piece
   10. Deflection blocking piece
   11. Diversion from a key square
   12. Diverting a defending piece
   13. Diversion in conjunction with a linear attack
3. Decoying
   1. Decoying mate
   2. Decoying a king in conjunction with a chase
   3. Decoying into a mating net
   4. Decoying under a double attack
   5. Decoying under a linear attack
   6. Decoying under a discovered attack
   7. Decoying under a discovered attack with check
   8. Decoying discovered check
   9. Decoying under a double check
   10. Decoying to a critical square
   11. Decoying under pin
   12. Decoying into a trap
   13. Decoy in conjunction with promoting pawn
   14. Decoying under check
   15. Decoying for the gain of tempo
   16. Decoying onto an unfavourable line
   17. Decoying into a stalemate position
4. Exercises with conjunction of several themes
5. Elimination of defense
6. Blockade
7. Clearing the checkmating square
8. Interference
9. Clearing the line
10. Opening the line
11. Pin
12. Restricting
13. Threat
14. Conquering a square
15. Exercises. Conjunction of tactical devices

What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jul 11, 2023

• Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
• Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
• Added daily goal for puzzles - choose how many exercises you need to keep your skills in shape.
• Added daily streak - track how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
• Various fixes and improvements.