This is a comprehensive and well-structured opening manual designed to elevate your chess game. It provides a thorough theoretical review of all chess openings, enriched with instructive games from the greatest chess players. This compact guide is beneficial for players at any level—beginners, intermediate, and advanced—offering a detailed classification of opening variations, evaluations, and characteristics of key moves. The historical development and current status of each variation are clearly described, and the theoretical material is vividly illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations, showcasing the principal ideas and plans for both White and Black. Additionally, the manual includes a special training section with over 350 exercises of varying difficulty across more than 40 openings.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers an unparalleled chess teaching method. The series includes courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for players from beginners to professionals.

With this course, you can enhance your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply your newfound skills in practice. The program acts as a coach, providing tasks to solve and offering guidance if you encounter difficulties. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates striking refutations of common mistakes.

The program also features a theoretical section that explains game methods at different stages, using real examples. The theory is presented interactively, allowing you to not only read the lesson text but also make moves on the board and work through unclear moves.

Advantages of the Program:

♔ High-quality examples, all double-checked for accuracy

♔ Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the teacher

♔ Different levels of task complexity

♔ Various goals to achieve within the problems

♔ Hints provided if an error is made

♔ Refutations shown for typical mistaken moves

♔ Ability to play out any position of the tasks against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Structured table of contents

♔ Monitoring of the player's ELO rating changes during the learning process

♔ Flexible test mode settings

♔ Option to bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Adaptation to larger tablet screens

♔ No internet connection required

♔ Ability to link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web simultaneously

The course includes a free section where you can test the program. The lessons in the free version are fully functional, allowing you to experience the application in real-world conditions before moving on to the following topics:

1. Rare Variations 1.1. 1. g3, 1. b4, .. 1.2. 1. b3 1.3. 1. d4 1.4. 1. d4 Nf6 1.5. 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3

2. Alekhine's Defense

3. Benoni Defense

4. Bird's Opening

5. Bishop's Opening

6. Blumenfeld Counter-Gambit

7. Bogo-Indian Defense

8. Budapest Gambit

9. Caro-Kann

10. Catalan System

11. Center Gambit

12. Dutch Defense

13. English Opening

14. Evans Gambit

15. Four Knights' Game

16. French Defense

17. Grünfeld Defense

18. Italian Game & Hungarian Defense

19. King's Indian Defense

20. Latvian Gambit

21. Nimzo-Indian Defense

22. Nimzowitsch Defense

23. Old Indian Defense

24. Philidor's Defense

25. Pirc-Robatsch Defense

26. Queen's Gambit

27. Queen's Indian Defense

28. Queen's Pawn Game

29. Reti Opening

30. Petrov's Defense

31. Ruy Lopez

32. Scandinavian Defense

33. Scotch Gambit & Ponziani's Opening

34. Scotch Game

35. Sicilian Defense

36. Three Knights' Game

37. Two Knights' Defense

38. Vienna Game

39. Volga-Benko Gambit

40. The Complete Course of Openings

What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2

Last updated on Jul 30, 2024

• 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 - choose how many exercises 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