Chess Endgame Mastery: A Beginner's Guide with 339 Lessons and 886 Exercises!
This comprehensive chess endgame course builds upon three prior courses: "Beginners to Club," "Chess Strategy for Beginners," and "Total Chess Endings." It features carefully curated exercises—challenging yet manageable for beginners—with ample explanations and hints. The curriculum emphasizes winning with an extra pawn, alongside essential checkmating techniques, progressing from checkmates with major pieces to those involving a bishop and knight.
Part of the acclaimed Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course utilizes a unique teaching methodology. The series offers courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from novice to expert.
Enhance your chess skills, discover new tactical maneuvers, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program functions as a personalized coach, providing exercises, hints, and detailed explanations, even showcasing refutations of common errors.
Interactive theoretical lessons complement the practical exercises. You'll not only read about strategic concepts but also actively work through examples on the board, reinforcing understanding.
Key Features:
- Rigorously verified, high-quality examples.
- Requires input of all key teacher-specified moves.
- Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
- Diverse problem-solving objectives.
- Provides hints for errors.
- Shows refutations for typical mistakes.
- Allows playing any exercise position against the computer.
- Interactive theoretical lessons.
- Organized table of contents.
- Tracks ELO rating progress.
- Flexible test mode settings.
- Bookmarking option for favorite exercises.
- Tablet-optimized interface.
- Offline functionality.
- Multi-device access via a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web).
A free version allows you to explore the program's functionality. Fully functional lessons let you assess the app before purchasing additional content. This includes practice sections covering pawn, rook, bishop, knight, and queen endings, along with rook vs. bishop, bishop vs. knight, and rook vs. knight scenarios, and checkmating techniques. Theory sections cover standard mates and endgame principles for various piece combinations.
Version 3.3.2 (Aug 7, 2024) Updates:
- Spaced Repetition training mode: Combines past mistakes with new exercises for optimal learning.
- Bookmark-based testing.
- Customizable daily exercise goals.
- Daily streak tracking.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
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