Chess School for Beginners
This friendly interactive course is designed for both children and adult beginners, offering a comprehensive learning experience through its division into two main sections: Chess Rules and Playing. With 500 carefully selected and often custom-designed examples, students can effectively enhance their understanding and skills.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which provides an unparalleled method of chess instruction. The series encompasses courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for learners ranging from beginners to professional players.
By engaging with this course, you can elevate your chess knowledge, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical scenarios.
The program functions as a personal coach, presenting tasks for you to solve and offering assistance if you encounter difficulties. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates compelling refutations of common mistakes.
In addition to practical exercises, the program includes a theoretical section that elucidates game strategies at various stages, using real-life examples. This theory is delivered interactively, allowing you to not only read the lesson text but also to make moves on a virtual board and practice challenging positions.
Advantages of the Program:
♔ High-quality examples, rigorously double-checked for accuracy
♔ Requirement to input all key moves as instructed by the teacher
♔ Varied levels of task complexity
♔ Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
♔ Hints provided when errors are made
♔ Refutations shown for typical mistaken moves
♔ Option to play out any task position against the computer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Well-organized table of contents
♔ Monitoring of your ELO rating changes throughout the learning journey
♔ Flexible test mode settings
♔ Ability to bookmark favorite exercises
♔ Optimized for larger tablet screens
♔ No internet connection required
♔ Sync capabilities with a free Chess King account across multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web
The course offers a free section for you to experience the program's capabilities. The lessons in this free version are fully functional, enabling you to evaluate the application in real-world conditions before progressing to the following topics:
Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Chess board 1.3. Chess pieces 1.4. Starting position
Pieces' Moves 2.1. Rook 2.2. Bishop 2.3. Queen 2.4. Knight 2.5. King 2.6. Pawn
Pawn Promotion
The Relative Value of the Pieces
The Role of the King. Check and Mate 5.1. Check 5.2. Getting out of check 5.3. Mate 5.4. Castling 5.5. Mate in one move 5.6. Stalemate 5.7. Perpetual check
Capture
Notation (How to Read Moves)
Elementary Capture 8.1. Winning a knight 8.2. Winning a bishop 8.3. Winning a rook 8.4. Winning a queen 8.5. Win a piece
Simple Defense 9.1. Retreat 9.2. Defending with another piece 9.3. Taking an attacking piece 9.4. Interception 9.5. Defending from mate
Chess Skills Development
The Role of the King. Continuation 11.1. Mate in 1 11.2. Mate in 2 11.3. Discovered check 11.4. Double check 11.5. Perpetual check 11.6. Stalemate
King and Queen Against a King
King and Rook Against a King
King and Minor Piece Against a King
King and a Pawn Against a King
Etiquette During a Game
Chess Mazes
What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Jul 29, 2024
- 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 consecutive days you've completed your daily goal.
- Various fixes and improvements
Chess School for Beginners





This friendly interactive course is designed for both children and adult beginners, offering a comprehensive learning experience through its division into two main sections: Chess Rules and Playing. With 500 carefully selected and often custom-designed examples, students can effectively enhance their understanding and skills.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which provides an unparalleled method of chess instruction. The series encompasses courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for learners ranging from beginners to professional players.
By engaging with this course, you can elevate your chess knowledge, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical scenarios.
The program functions as a personal coach, presenting tasks for you to solve and offering assistance if you encounter difficulties. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates compelling refutations of common mistakes.
In addition to practical exercises, the program includes a theoretical section that elucidates game strategies at various stages, using real-life examples. This theory is delivered interactively, allowing you to not only read the lesson text but also to make moves on a virtual board and practice challenging positions.
Advantages of the Program:
♔ High-quality examples, rigorously double-checked for accuracy
♔ Requirement to input all key moves as instructed by the teacher
♔ Varied levels of task complexity
♔ Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
♔ Hints provided when errors are made
♔ Refutations shown for typical mistaken moves
♔ Option to play out any task position against the computer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Well-organized table of contents
♔ Monitoring of your ELO rating changes throughout the learning journey
♔ Flexible test mode settings
♔ Ability to bookmark favorite exercises
♔ Optimized for larger tablet screens
♔ No internet connection required
♔ Sync capabilities with a free Chess King account across multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web
The course offers a free section for you to experience the program's capabilities. The lessons in this free version are fully functional, enabling you to evaluate the application in real-world conditions before progressing to the following topics:
Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Chess board 1.3. Chess pieces 1.4. Starting position
Pieces' Moves 2.1. Rook 2.2. Bishop 2.3. Queen 2.4. Knight 2.5. King 2.6. Pawn
Pawn Promotion
The Relative Value of the Pieces
The Role of the King. Check and Mate 5.1. Check 5.2. Getting out of check 5.3. Mate 5.4. Castling 5.5. Mate in one move 5.6. Stalemate 5.7. Perpetual check
Capture
Notation (How to Read Moves)
Elementary Capture 8.1. Winning a knight 8.2. Winning a bishop 8.3. Winning a rook 8.4. Winning a queen 8.5. Win a piece
Simple Defense 9.1. Retreat 9.2. Defending with another piece 9.3. Taking an attacking piece 9.4. Interception 9.5. Defending from mate
Chess Skills Development
The Role of the King. Continuation 11.1. Mate in 1 11.2. Mate in 2 11.3. Discovered check 11.4. Double check 11.5. Perpetual check 11.6. Stalemate
King and Queen Against a King
King and Rook Against a King
King and Minor Piece Against a King
King and a Pawn Against a King
Etiquette During a Game
Chess Mazes
What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Jul 29, 2024
- 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 consecutive days you've completed your daily goal.
- Various fixes and improvements