If you're new to chess, mastering the art of defending your pieces is essential! Every chess player must develop and solidify fundamental defensive techniques like retreating or safeguarding a piece, intercepting, or capturing an opponent's piece. By engaging in a vast array of exercises, you'll enhance your gameplay. This course offers over 2800 exercises featuring numerous pieces on the board, making it an ideal tool for rapidly training chess beginners.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers a groundbreaking method for learning chess. The series includes courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored to various skill levels from beginners to professional players.

With this course, you can enhance your chess knowledge, discover new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practice.

The program serves as a coach, providing tasks to solve and assistance if you encounter difficulties. It offers hints, explanations, and even demonstrates powerful refutations of any mistakes you might make.

Advantages of the Program:

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

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

♔ Varied levels of task complexity

♔ Diverse goals to achieve within the problems

♔ Hints provided for errors

♔ Refutations shown for common mistakes

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

♔ Structured table of contents

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

♔ Flexible settings in test mode

♔ Ability to bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Adaptation to larger tablet screens

♔ No internet connection required

♔ Link to a free Chess King account to access the course across multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web simultaneously

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

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Taking an attacking piece

4. Interception

5. Defending from mate

6. Difficulty level

What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jul 7, 2023

• 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 - track how many consecutive days you meet your daily goal.
• Various fixes and improvements