Learn Chess: Beginner to Club

Chess King

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About this game

This teaching program is a kind of guide. It will introduce you to the rules and laws of chess and let you work your way of improvement from the level of Beginner to the one of Club Player. In the course 100 chess topics are considered including rules of chess game; methods of playing in opening, middle game and ending; combinational techniques and basic elements of strategy. All in all, the course contains 500 teaching examples and 700 exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Seems really well-made but usually there's no reason to pay for this stuff as it can be found for free. Perhaps if the UI was designed better and this app was made to be closer to a "categorised wiki page" providing materials and lessons for beginners, intermediate, advanced, and other categories, then it would have been a 5 stars because the current system is rather odd. If the dev ever plans on doing an overhaul then I recommend looking at the app "sololearn". The course format there is great.

Excellent! Installed as a lapsed amateur and it really helped me get back into the groove. Very generous free version, thank you - will definitely be buying the full app now. Explanations are thorough and clear (10/10 for actually having text I can skim instead of making me watch a video). Puzzles are appropriately challenging (for the level) and also explore blunders and weak lines. Really like the customisation options! Wd be nice to be able to flip the board to study openings as black.

I have learnt a lot using this app. I haven't done much of the theory stuff but I think that helps to understand why moves happen a certain way. I think beginners need to be told that wrong moves are only wrong because they lead to uncertain or neutral outcomes, right moves lead to strong advantages or winning the game. I have spent some time figuring out why moves are right or wrong but this is exactly what is needed when actually playing a game of chess, so it's good training.

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