Simple Defense

As a beginner, your first essential skill is learning to protect your pieces!

As a beginner, your primary focus should be on defending your pieces from capture! Every chess player must master fundamental defensive techniques, such as retreating or protecting a piece, interposing, or counter-attacking your opponent's pieces. By reinforcing these skills through extensive practice, you will elevate your overall game. This course offers over 2800 exercises featuring rich, complex positions. This vast collection makes it an ideal resource for the rapid development of beginner chess players.

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

This course will help you enhance your chess understanding, discover new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply your knowledge in practice.

The program functions like a personal coach, assigning tasks and providing support when you're stuck. It offers hints, detailed explanations, and demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.

Program Advantages:

♔ High-quality examples, all verified for accuracy

♔ You must enter all key moves required by the trainer

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve within the puzzles

♔ The program gives hints after mistakes

♔ Refutations shown for typical incorrect moves

♔ Ability to play out any position from the exercises against the computer

♔ Organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your training

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark your favorite exercises

♔ Tablet-optimized for larger screens

♔ No internet connection required

♔ Sync your progress across devices by linking the app to a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web)

The course includes a free section to evaluate the program. The free lessons are fully functional, allowing you to test the application thoroughly before unlocking additional topics:

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Capturing the attacker

4. Interception

5. Defense against checkmate

6. Mixed Difficulty

What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.2

Last updated on Jul 7, 2023* Added Spaced Repetition training mode - blends missed exercises with new ones for an optimal puzzle set.

* Added ability to run tests on bookmarked exercises.

* Added daily puzzle goal - set how many exercises to solve to maintain skills.

* Added daily streak counter - tracks consecutive days of completing your daily goal.

* Various fixes and improvements