Chess School for Beginners
This engaging and interactive chess course is perfect for both children and adult beginners. It's divided into two main sections: learning the rules and practicing gameplay. The course utilizes 500 carefully selected and, in many cases, custom-designed examples to aid learning.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary approach to chess instruction. The series offers courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, with levels ranging from beginner to advanced and even professional.
Improve your chess skills, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program acts as your personal coach, providing exercises, hints, explanations, and insightful refutations of potential errors.
The program also includes an interactive theoretical section that explains game strategies at different stages, using real-world examples. You can actively participate by making moves on the board and working through challenging positions.
Key Features:
- High-quality, verified examples.
- Requires input of all key moves.
- Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
- Diverse objectives for each problem.
- Hints provided for errors.
- Refutations shown 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.
- Account syncing across Android, iOS, and web.
A free version is available to test the program's features. The free lessons are fully functional, allowing a comprehensive trial before purchasing additional content. The free version includes:
- Introduction
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Chessboard
- 1.3 Chess Pieces
- 1.4 Starting Position
- Piece Movement
- 2.1 Rook
- 2.2 Bishop
- 2.3 Queen
- 2.4 Knight
- 2.5 King
- 2.6 Pawn
- Pawn Promotion
- Relative Piece Value
- The King's Role: Check and Mate
- 5.1 Check
- 5.2 Escaping Check
- 5.3 Checkmate
- 5.4 Castling
- 5.5 Checkmate in One Move
- 5.6 Stalemate
- 5.7 Perpetual Check
- Captures
- Notation (Reading Moves)
- Basic Captures
- 8.1 Winning a Knight
- 8.2 Winning a Bishop
- 8.3 Winning a Rook
- 8.4 Winning a Queen
- 8.5 Winning a Piece
- Simple Defenses
- 9.1 Retreat
- 9.2 Defending with Another Piece
- 9.3 Capturing the Attacking Piece
- 9.4 Interception
- 9.5 Preventing Checkmate
- Chess Skill Development
- The King's Role (Continued)
- 11.1 Mate in 1
- 11.2 Mate in 2
- 11.3 Discovered Check
- 11.4 Double Check
- 11.5 Perpetual Check
- 11.6 Stalemate
- King and Queen vs. King
- King and Rook vs. King
- King and Minor Piece vs. King
- King and Pawn vs. King
- Game Etiquette
- Chess Mazes
- Spaced Repetition training mode added.
- Ability to run tests on bookmarks added.
- Daily puzzle goal added.
- Daily streak tracking added.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
Chess School for Beginners





This engaging and interactive chess course is perfect for both children and adult beginners. It's divided into two main sections: learning the rules and practicing gameplay. The course utilizes 500 carefully selected and, in many cases, custom-designed examples to aid learning.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary approach to chess instruction. The series offers courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, with levels ranging from beginner to advanced and even professional.
Improve your chess skills, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program acts as your personal coach, providing exercises, hints, explanations, and insightful refutations of potential errors.
The program also includes an interactive theoretical section that explains game strategies at different stages, using real-world examples. You can actively participate by making moves on the board and working through challenging positions.
Key Features:
- High-quality, verified examples.
- Requires input of all key moves.
- Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
- Diverse objectives for each problem.
- Hints provided for errors.
- Refutations shown 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.
- Account syncing across Android, iOS, and web.
A free version is available to test the program's features. The free lessons are fully functional, allowing a comprehensive trial before purchasing additional content. The free version includes:
- Introduction
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Chessboard
- 1.3 Chess Pieces
- 1.4 Starting Position
- Piece Movement
- 2.1 Rook
- 2.2 Bishop
- 2.3 Queen
- 2.4 Knight
- 2.5 King
- 2.6 Pawn
- Pawn Promotion
- Relative Piece Value
- The King's Role: Check and Mate
- 5.1 Check
- 5.2 Escaping Check
- 5.3 Checkmate
- 5.4 Castling
- 5.5 Checkmate in One Move
- 5.6 Stalemate
- 5.7 Perpetual Check
- Captures
- Notation (Reading Moves)
- Basic Captures
- 8.1 Winning a Knight
- 8.2 Winning a Bishop
- 8.3 Winning a Rook
- 8.4 Winning a Queen
- 8.5 Winning a Piece
- Simple Defenses
- 9.1 Retreat
- 9.2 Defending with Another Piece
- 9.3 Capturing the Attacking Piece
- 9.4 Interception
- 9.5 Preventing Checkmate
- Chess Skill Development
- The King's Role (Continued)
- 11.1 Mate in 1
- 11.2 Mate in 2
- 11.3 Discovered Check
- 11.4 Double Check
- 11.5 Perpetual Check
- 11.6 Stalemate
- King and Queen vs. King
- King and Rook vs. King
- King and Minor Piece vs. King
- King and Pawn vs. King
- Game Etiquette
- Chess Mazes
- Spaced Repetition training mode added.
- Ability to run tests on bookmarks added.
- Daily puzzle goal added.
- Daily streak tracking added.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.