Simple Defense

As a beginner, your first essential step is learning to defend your pieces effectively.

For every new player, mastering core defensive skills is crucial. This includes techniques like retreating or protecting a threatened piece, intercepting an attack, or counter-attacking your opponent's pieces. By practicing with a vast number of exercises, you will solidify this knowledge and noticeably improve your gameplay. This course features over 2,800 exercises with complex, populated boards, making it an ideal tool for rapid skill development for chess novices.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a groundbreaking chess instruction method. The series encompasses comprehensive courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by skill level from beginner to advanced, even up to professional players.

Using this course will enhance your chess understanding, introduce you to new tactical ideas and combinations, and help you apply this knowledge in practice.

The program functions as a personal coach: it assigns tasks, provides hints and explanations if you're stuck, and even demonstrates compelling refutations for common mistakes.

Program Advantages:

♔ High-quality, double-checked examples for accuracy

♔ Requires input of all key teacher-specified moves

♔ Tasks range across multiple difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in each problem

♔ Helpful hints provided upon errors

♔ Demonstrates refutations for typical incorrect moves

♔ Option to play out any position against the computer

♔ Clear, structured table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning

♔ Customizable test mode with flexible settings

♔ Bookmark your favorite exercises for later review

♔ Tablet-optimized for a larger screen experience

♔ Fully functional offline; no internet connection required

♔ Sync your progress across devices—link the app to a free Chess King account to access one course simultaneously on Android, iOS, and Web.

The course includes a free section to evaluate the program. The lessons in this free version are fully functional, offering a practical test of the application before you explore additional topics:

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Capturing the attacking piece

4. Interception

5. Defense against checkmate

6. Mixed Difficulty