This course is tailored specifically for club players rated between 1600 and 2000, drawing inspiration from the renowned textbook by the esteemed Russian chess trainer, Victor Golenishchev. Enhanced with contemporary examples from top-tier chess tournaments, this course is structured into comprehensive chess lessons. It covers 57 distinct themes, integrating both theoretical insights and practical exercises to deepen your understanding and sharpen your skills.

The theoretical segment features over 400 illustrative examples of play, while the practical section challenges you with more than 200 exercises, varying in complexity. This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a pioneering chess education platform. This series encompasses courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to everyone from beginners to seasoned professionals.

Utilizing this course, you'll enhance your chess knowledge, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and effectively apply these skills in your games. The program serves as an interactive coach, presenting tasks, offering guidance, and providing hints when needed. It also showcases refutations of common errors, ensuring you learn from your mistakes.

The theoretical lessons are presented interactively, allowing you to engage with the material by making moves on the board and experimenting with different strategies. This hands-on approach deepens your understanding and retention of the game's principles.

Advantages of the Program:

♔ High-quality, meticulously verified examples

♔ Requirement to input all critical moves as directed by the instructor

♔ Exercises designed at varying levels of difficulty

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems

♔ Immediate hints provided upon errors

♔ Demonstrations of refutations for typical mistakes

♔ 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 your learning journey

♔ Flexible test mode settings

♔ Ability to bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Optimized for larger tablet screens

♔ No internet connection required

♔ Seamless syncing across multiple devices (Android, iOS, Web) through a free Chess King account

The course includes a free segment, allowing you to experience its full functionality before deciding to unlock further topics. The free version covers essential lessons such as:

1. Attacking the king in the center
2. Attacking the king when both sides castle to the same flank
3. Attacking the king when opponents castle to opposite flanks
4. Attacking the king
5. The calculation mistakes
6. Training the technique of calculation
7. The "good" and the "bad" bishops
8. The bishop is stronger than the knight
9. The knight is stronger than the bishop
10. The bishops of opposite color in the middlegame
11. Bringing a piece out of play
12. Exploiting the open and semi-open files
13. Open and semi-open files and attacking the king
14. An outpost on an open or semi-open file
15. Fighting for an open file
16. Strong pawn center
17. Undermining the pawn center
18. Pieces against the pawn center
19. Pieces and pawns in the center
20. The center's role in flank operations
21. Two bishops in the middlegame
22. Two bishops in the endgame
23. Successful struggle against a bishop pair
24. The weak points in opponent's camp
25. The weakness of a complex of squares
26. About some strong points
27. The pawn weaknesses
28. The doubled pawns
29. A backward pawn on a semi-open file
30. A passed pawn
31. Queen vs. two rooks
32. Queen vs. Rook and a minor piece
33. The queen vs. the three minor pieces
34. Compensation for the queen
35. Two rooks vs. three minor pieces
36. Two minor pieces vs. Rook (with pawns)

What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jul 4, 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 - how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
• Various fixes and improvements