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, presented in a structured series of lessons. Covering 57 key 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 training methodology. The series offers comprehensive courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from beginners to professional players.

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

Interactive theoretical lessons allow you to actively engage with the material, working through moves on the board and clarifying complex concepts. Key advantages include:

• High-quality, verified examples.
• Required key move input.
• Varied exercise difficulty.
• Diverse problem-solving objectives.
• Error hints and refutations.
• Computer play against any position.
• Interactive theoretical sections.
• Organized table of contents.
• ELO rating tracking.
• Flexible test settings.
• Bookmarking capabilities.
• Tablet screen optimization.
• Offline accessibility.
• Multi-device compatibility via Chess King account.

A free version allows you to explore the program's functionality before purchasing the full course. The free trial includes fully functional lessons covering topics such as:

1. Attacking the king in the center
2. King attacks with same-flank castling
3. King attacks with opposite-flank castling
4. King attacks (general)
5. Calculation errors
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/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 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. Exploiting opponent weaknesses
25. Exploiting complex square weaknesses
26. Strong points
27. Pawn weaknesses
28. Doubled pawns
29. Backward pawn on a semi-open file
30. Passed pawns
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)