Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 1

This chess course, designed for club players (ELO 1600-2000), leverages the renowned textbook by Victor Golenishchev, a distinguished Russian chess trainer. The curriculum integrates contemporary examples from top-level competitions, structuring the material into focused lessons. Covering 57 themes, the course features over 400 theoretical examples and 200 practical exercises of varying difficulty.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess instruction method. The series offers comprehensive courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from beginner to professional.

Enhance your chess skills, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program functions as a personalized coach, providing exercises, hints, explanations, and insightful refutations of potential errors.

Interactive theoretical lessons allow you to actively engage with the material, not just reading but also making moves on the board to solidify understanding.

Key Features:

• Rigorously verified, high-quality examples.
• Requires input of all key moves.
• Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
• Diverse problem-solving objectives.
• Hints provided for errors.
• Refutations for common mistakes.
• Play any position against the computer.
• Interactive theoretical lessons.
• Organized table of contents.
• Tracks ELO rating progress.
• Customizable test mode.
• Bookmarking of favorite exercises.
• Tablet-optimized interface.
• Offline functionality.
• Multi-device compatibility via a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web).

A free version allows you to experience the program's functionality before unlocking the full course. This includes the following lessons:

1. Attacking the King (Center)
2. Attacking the King (Same-Side Castling)
3. Attacking the King (Opposite-Side Castling)
4. Attacking the King (General)
5. Calculation Mistakes
6. Calculation Technique Training
7. "Good" and "Bad" Bishops
8. Bishop vs. Knight (Superiority)
9. Knight vs. Bishop (Superiority)
10. Opposite-Colored Bishops (Middlegame)
11. Removing a Piece from Play
12. Exploiting Open/Semi-Open Files
13. Open/Semi-Open Files & King Attacks
14. Outposts on Open/Semi-Open Files
15. Open File Control
16. Strong Pawn Center
17. Undermining the Pawn Center
18. Pieces vs. Pawn Center
19. Pieces & Pawns in the Center
20. Center's Role in Flank Operations
21. Two Bishops (Middlegame)
22. Two Bishops (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 Semi-Open File
30. Passed Pawns
31. Queen vs. Two Rooks
32. Queen vs. Rook & 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)