Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 1

This comprehensive chess course, designed for club players (1600-2000 Elo), leverages the renowned textbook by esteemed Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev. It integrates examples from top-level chess competitions, structuring the material into focused lessons. The curriculum encompasses 57 thematic areas, combining theoretical instruction with over 200 practical exercises of varying difficulty and more than 400 illustrative game examples.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess training methodology. The series offers courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from beginner to professional.

This program enhances your chess understanding, introduces new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and reinforces learned concepts through practical application. The software acts as a personalized coach, presenting challenges, providing assistance when needed, offering hints, explanations, and demonstrating refutations of potential errors.

Interactive theoretical sections explain strategic principles using real-game examples. You actively participate by making moves on the board, clarifying unclear positions.

Key features include:

• Rigorously verified, high-quality examples
• Mandatory input of key moves
• Varied exercise difficulty levels
• Diverse problem-solving objectives
• Error-detection hints and refutations
• Computer play against any position
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Organized table of contents
• ELO rating tracking
• Customizable test modes
• Exercise bookmarking
• Tablet-optimized display
• Offline functionality
• Multi-device access via a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web)

A free trial version allows you to explore the program's functionality before purchasing additional lessons. The free version includes fully functional lessons covering:

1. Attacking the king in the center
2. King attacks with same-side castling
3. King attacks with opposite-side castling
4. General king attacks
5. Calculation errors
6. Calculation technique training
7. "Good" and "bad" bishops
8. Bishop vs. knight
9. Knight vs. bishop
10. Opposite-colored bishops in the middlegame
11. Removing a piece from play
12. Exploiting open and semi-open files
13. Open/semi-open files and king attacks
14. Outposts on open/semi-open files
15. Open file control
16. Strong pawn center
17. Undermining the pawn center
18. Pieces against the pawn center
19. Pieces and pawns in the center
20. Center's role in flank operations
21. Two bishops in the middlegame
22. Two bishops in the endgame
23. Countering a bishop pair
24. Opponent's weaknesses
25. Weak square complexes
26. Strong points
27. Pawn weaknesses
28. Doubled pawns
29. Backward pawn on a semi-open file
30. Passed pawns
31. Queen vs. two rooks
32. Queen vs. rook and minor piece
33. Queen vs. three minor pieces
34. Queen compensation
35. Two rooks vs. three minor pieces
36. Two minor pieces vs. rook (with pawns)

What's New in Version 2.4.2 (July 4, 2023)

• Spaced Repetition training mode: combines past errors with new exercises.
• Bookmark-based testing.
• Daily puzzle goal setting.
• Daily streak tracking.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.