
Application Description
This comprehensive chess opening manual provides a theoretical overview of all major openings, illustrated with instructive games from renowned chess masters. Its detailed classification caters to players of all levels – from beginners to advanced. Each opening variation includes evaluations, key move characteristics, historical development, and current status. Classic games with detailed annotations showcase the strategic ideas and plans for both White and Black. A dedicated training section features over 350 exercises of varying difficulty across 40+ openings.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a unique chess teaching method. The series offers courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, with levels tailored to beginners, intermediate, advanced, and even professional players.
This course enhances chess knowledge, introduces new tactical tricks and combinations, and reinforces learning through practical application. The program functions as an interactive coach, providing tasks, hints, explanations, and refutations of common mistakes. It includes an interactive theoretical section with real-world examples, allowing users to make moves on the board and work through unclear positions.
Key Program Advantages:
- High-quality, verified examples.
- Requires input of all key moves.
- Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
- Diverse problem-solving objectives.
- Hints provided for errors.
- Refutations shown for typical mistakes.
- Ability to play against the computer.
- Interactive theoretical lessons.
- Structured table of contents.
- Tracks ELO rating progress.
- Flexible test settings.
- Bookmarking feature for favorite exercises.
- Tablet-optimized interface.
- Offline functionality.
- Cross-platform compatibility (Android, iOS, Web) via Chess King account.
A free version allows testing the program's functionality. Fully functional lessons are available, enabling a real-world evaluation before purchasing additional content. This includes:
- Rare Variations (1. g3, 1. b4, 1. b3, 1. d4, etc.)
- Alekhine's Defense
- Benoni Defense
- Bird's Opening
- Bishop's Opening
- Blumenfeld Counter-Gambit
- Bogo-Indian Defense
- Budapest Gambit
- Caro-Kann Defense
- Catalan System
- Center Gambit
- Dutch Defense
- English Opening
- Evans Gambit
- Four Knights' Game
- French Defense
- Grünfeld Defense
- Italian Game & Hungarian Defense
- King's Indian Defense
- Latvian Gambit
- Nimzo-Indian Defense
- Nimzowitsch Defense
- Old Indian Defense
- Philidor's Defense
- Pirc-Robatsch Defense
- Queen's Gambit
- Queen's Indian Defense
- Queen's Pawn Game
- Reti Opening
- Petrov's Defense
- Ruy Lopez
- Scandinavian Defense
- Scotch Gambit & Ponziani's Opening
- Scotch Game
- Sicilian Defense
- Three Knights' Game
- Two Knights' Defense
- Vienna Game
- Volga-Benko Gambit
- Complete Course of Openings
- Spaced Repetition training mode added.
- Ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
- Daily puzzle goal setting.
- Daily streak tracking.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
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