Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 1

Course for Club Players (1600-2000) Based on V. Golenishchev's Textbook

This course, designed for club players rated 1600-2000, utilizes the renowned chess textbook by Victor Golenishchev, a distinguished Russian chess trainer. The material is enhanced with examples from top-level chess competitions and structured into focused lessons. The course covers 57 themes, blending theoretical concepts with over 200 practical exercises of varying difficulty and more than 400 illustrative game examples. This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a unique chess training methodology. The series offers courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from beginners to experienced players and even professionals.

This course helps improve chess understanding, introduces new tactical tricks and combinations, and reinforces learning through practical application. The program functions as a personal coach, assigning tasks, providing assistance when needed, offering hints, explanations, and demonstrating refutations of common errors. It includes an interactive theoretical section explaining game strategies using real-world examples. The interactive format allows users to not only read lessons but also make moves on the board, clarifying unclear positions.

Program Advantages:

• High-quality, rigorously 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 replay positions against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• Tracks player ELO rating progress
• Flexible test mode settings
• Bookmarking of favorite exercises
• Tablet-optimized interface
• Offline functionality
• Syncs with a free Chess King account for cross-platform access (Android, iOS, Web)

The course includes a free trial allowing full functionality of sample lessons to test the application before purchasing additional content. Free lessons cover:

1. Attacking the king in the center
2. Attacking the king (same-side castling)
3. Attacking the king (opposite-side castling)
4. Attacking the king
5. Calculation mistakes
6. Calculation technique training
7. "Good" and "bad" bishops
8. Bishop vs. knight
9. Knight vs. bishop
10. Opposite-colored bishops in the middlegame
11. Removing a piece from play
12. Exploiting open and semi-open files
13. Open/semi-open files & king attacks
14. Outposts on open/semi-open files
15. Fighting for an open file
16. Strong pawn center
17. Undermining the pawn center
18. Pieces vs. pawn center
19. Pieces and pawns in the center
20. Center's role in flank operations
21. Two bishops in the middlegame
22. Two bishops in the endgame
23. Countering a bishop pair
24. Opponent's weaknesses
25. Weak square complexes
26. Strong points
27. Pawn weaknesses
28. Doubled pawns
29. Backward pawn on a semi-open file
30. Passed pawn
31. Queen vs. two rooks
32. Queen vs. rook and minor piece
33. Queen vs. three minor pieces
34. Queen compensation
35. Two rooks vs. three minor pieces
36. Two minor pieces vs. rook (with pawns)

What's New in Version 2.4.2 (Last updated Jul 4, 2023):

• Spaced Repetition training mode (combines erroneous and new exercises)
• Bookmark-based test launching
• Daily puzzle goal setting
• Daily streak tracking
• Various bug fixes and improvements