Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 1

This is a course for club players based on a textbook by a distinguished Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev. The source material is supplemented with examples of play by lead chess players from the latest major contests and is organized in chess lessons. The course contains 57 themes, including theoretical material and practical exercises. The theoretical part includes more than 400 examples of play. The practical part includes more than 200 exercises of varying difficulty.

This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.

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

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

The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.

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 the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Structured table of contents

♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during 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

♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:

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 the 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)