Application Description

Mastering Piece Defense: A Guide for Chess Beginners

If you are just starting out, your primary focus should be learning how to protect your pieces effectively.

Every chess player must master essential defensive skills, such as withdrawing or shielding a piece, intercepting attacks, and countering an opponent's threats. By consolidating this knowledge through extensive practice, you will significantly elevate your playing level. This course features over 2,800 exercises with numerous pieces on the board, making it an exceptional tool for rapid training among chess novices.

About the Chess King Learn Series

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary approach to chess instruction. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame play, and endgames, categorized by difficulty levels ranging from beginners to professional players.

Enhance Your Chess Skills

This course helps you expand your chess knowledge, discover new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical scenarios. The program acts as a personal coach, providing tasks for solution and offering assistance when you get stuck. It delivers hints, detailed explanations, and even highlights striking refutations of the mistakes you might make.

Key Features

• ♔ High-quality examples, all double-checked for accuracy
• ♔ You must enter all key moves required by the instructor
• ♔ Tasks feature varying levels of complexity
• ♔ Problems have diverse objectives to achieve
• ♔ The program provides hints when an error occurs
• ♔ Refutations are displayed for typical mistakes
• ♔ You can play out any task position against the computer
• ♔ A structured table of contents guides your learning
• ♔ The app tracks changes in your player rating (ELO) during training
• ♔ Test mode with customizable settings
• ♔ Ability to bookmark favorite exercises for later review
• ♔ Interface optimized for larger tablet screens
• ♔ Full functionality without an internet connection
• ♔ Sync your free Chess King account across Android, iOS, and Web devices to solve courses on multiple platforms simultaneously

Free Trial Version

The course includes a complimentary section that allows you to test the program. The lessons in this free version are fully functional, enabling you to evaluate the application's performance before unlocking subsequent topics:

1. 1\. Retreat
2. 2\. Defending with another piece
3. 3\. Taking an attacking piece
4. 4\. Interception
5. 5\. Defending from mate
6. 6\. Difficulty level adjustments

What's New in Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jul 7, 2023
* Introduced a training mode based on Spaced Repetition, which combines previously missed exercises with new ones to present an optimized set of puzzles.
* Added the ability to launch tests using bookmarked items.
* Included a daily puzzle goal to help you maintain your skills by choosing how many exercises to complete each day.
* Implemented a daily streak counter to track consecutive days of achieving your daily goal.
* Various fixes and improvements for enhanced performance.

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