Chess Strategy for Beginners v5.4.1
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Developer Description
This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects
This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.
With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.
The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.
The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.
Advantages of the program:
♔ High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness
♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
♔ Different levels of complexity of the tasks
♔ Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems
♔ The program gives hint if an error is made
♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown
♔ You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Structured table of contents
♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process
♔ Test mode with flexible settings
♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises
♔ The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet
♔ The application does not require an internet connection
♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. Utilizing a decisive material advantage
1.1. Mating with major pieces
1.2. Mating with a rook
1.3. Mating with a queen
1.4. Mating with two bishops
1.5. Mating with bishop and knight (king is on the edge)
1.6. Mating with bishop and knight (king is in the center)
1.7. Mating with two knights
1.8. Different kinds of large material advantage
1.9. How to solve chess problems
2. The three stages of a chess game
2.1. How to play in the opening
2.2. Quick mobilization of forces
2.3. Fighting for the center
2.4. Harmonius pawn structure
2.5. What to do after the opening?
2.6. About endgame
2.7. Basic endgame rules
3. Basic pawn endings
3.1. The rule of the square
3.2. More about the rule of the square
3.3. The king helps the pawn
3.4. Opposition
3.5. The key squares
4. The fundamentals of chess tactics
4.1. Tactical methods
4.2. Combination and its components
4.3. Double attack
4.4. Knight and pawn forks
4.5. Exploiting a pin
4.6. How to fight against pins
4.7. Discovered attack
4.8. Discovered check
4.9. "Mill"
4.10. Double check
4.11. Decoy
4.12. Blocking
4.13. Smothered mate
4.14. Distraction
4.15. Weakness of the back rank
4.16. Square clearance
4.17. Line clearance
5. Utilizing a material or positional advantage
What's New
* Added showing of small marks (??, ?!, !?, etc) on the board
* Show solution rating for test
* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!
* Various fixes and improvements
In-app purchases
$11.99 per item
Version Information
- Version
- 5.4.1
- Downloads
- 100K+
- Updated on
- Oct 29, 2025
- Released
- Nov 24, 2015
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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Chess Strategy for Beginners users say on Google Play
Worth buying full package. Ive played chess over the years but this helps fill in the blanks and establishes a solid foundation to build on.
It makes sense to do this course if your tactical vision, safety ( not hanging pieces or losing pieces to simple tactics) and thought process is good. I would pair this with chess tactics for beginners( assuming you finished elementary tactics well and can spot the answers within 5 sec.) Do not do this course if you are not a safe player, making blunders and hanging pieces everytime. No amount of material here will help someone who hasn't grasped safety or "is my move safe?"
Great for learning. But contrary to Chess Tactics for Beginners, you have to start the lesson package from the beginning if you quit before finishing. I loved playing on every little opportunity, but now I need time to finish packages o 20-30 lessons.
I'm not even that good at chess but this game is restrictive there are so many other ways to finish it but it says error or failure.
The exercises don't explain *why* moves are made and dismisses other solutions. So, basically useless Edit: to the reply, you have to actually explain to to the user WHY moves are being made and what tactics are used. Just telling them literally provides no help at all. Remember, this is made for the beginner. There is no base to be built up on when you don't tell me what I should be lookig for, patterns to recognize, etc. Just google "how to effectively teach" or watch a Khan Academy lesson. Put effort into the teaching, this is just halfway finished junk
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