Chess Strategy for Beginners

This course is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength. This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing a material or positional advantage. This program includes 55 lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples and exercises. This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!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 timeThe 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 before releasing the following topics:1. Utilizing a decisive material advantage1.1. Mating with major pieces1.2. Mating with a rook1.3. Mating with a queen1.4. Mating with two bishops1.5. Mating with bishop and knight (king is on the edge)1.6. Mating with bishop and knight (king is in the center)1.7. Mating with two knights1.8. Different kinds of large material advantage1.9. How to solve chess problems2. The three stages of a chess game2.1. How to play in the opening2.2. Quick mobilization of forces2.3. Fighting for the center2.4. Harmonius pawn structure2.5. What to do after the opening?2.6. About endgame2.7. Basic endgame rules3. Basic pawn endings3.1. The rule of the square3.2. More about the rule of the square3.3. The king helps the pawn3.4. Opposition3.5. The key squares4. The fundamentals of chess tactics4.1. Tactical methods4.2. Combination and its components4.3. Double attack4.4. Knight and pawn forks4.5. Exploiting a pin4.6. How to fight against pins4.7. Discovered attack4.8. Discovered check4.9. "Mill"4.10. Double check4.11. Decoy4.12. Blocking4.13. Smothered mate4.14. Distraction4.15. Weakness of the back rank4.16. Square clearance4.17. Line clearance5. Utilizing a material or positional advantage