Chess School for Beginners

Chess King

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About this game

This friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 2 main sections: Chess rules and Playing. 500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student.

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. Introduction
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Chess board
1.3. Chess pieces
1.4. Starting position
2. Pieces' moves
2.1. Rook
2.2. Bishop
2.3. Queen
2.4. Knight
2.5. King
2.6. Pawn
3. Pawn promotion
4. The relative value of the pieces
5. 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
6. Capture
7. Notation (How to read moves)
8. 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
9. 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
10. Chess skills development
11. 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
12. King and queen against a king
13. King and rook against a king
14. King and minor piece against a king
15. King and a pawn against a king
16. Etiquette during a game
17. Chess mazes

Ratings and reviews

This is a very fine introductory chess app for beginners and novices, adults and children. The text (theory) is well written with concise graphics and examples, and the practical exercises are valuable applications of the text. The app designers are clearly knowledgeable and experienced chess players.

This is the app with only limited navigation. This is the free app which has more ads than chess pieces. This is the app with learning on the various chess pieces which can only be accessed through payment. So yes it's free: but just not very good.

doesn't really show you how to play as a beginner. gonna look for another app. if you get a question/ move wrong it doesn't matter because it doesn't tell you how to fix it. it just moves on 🤔😒

What's new

* 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 - chose how many exercise 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