Dive into the world of chess with an exceptional learning tool featuring 1300 deeply annotated games played by the 4th World Chess Champion, Alexander Alekhine. This comprehensive program not only includes 600 games annotated for the first time but also offers 200 carefully selected positions for you to solve, showcasing some of the most intriguing and educational moments from Alekhine's career. These are organized in an additional section for your learning convenience.
This course is part of the acclaimed Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), renowned for its innovative approach to chess education. The series covers a wide range of topics from tactics and strategy to openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored to cater to players from beginner to professional levels.
With this course, you can enhance your chess skills, learn new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply your knowledge effectively in real games. The program serves as a personal coach, presenting you with tasks to solve and offering guidance if you encounter difficulties. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates striking refutations of common mistakes, ensuring a robust learning experience.
The program includes a theoretical section that elucidates game strategies at various stages, using real-life examples. This interactive format allows you to not only read lesson texts but also to make moves on the board and practice challenging positions.
Advantages of the Program:
- High-quality examples, all meticulously double-checked for accuracy
- Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
- Tasks with varying levels of complexity
- Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
- Immediate hints provided upon making an error
- Refutations shown for typical mistaken moves
- Ability to play out any position against the computer
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Well-organized table of contents
- Monitoring of ELO rating changes during the learning process
- Flexible test mode settings
- Option to bookmark favorite exercises
- Adaptation for larger tablet screens
- No internet connection required
- Sync capabilities with a free Chess King account across Android, iOS, and Web platforms
The course offers a free section where you can experience the program's full functionality. This allows you to evaluate its effectiveness before unlocking further topics, such as:
1. Play like Alekhine
- Tactical blows
- Combinations
- Attack on the king
- Pawn sacrifice for the initiative
- Creation and exploitation of open files and diagonals
- Creation and exploitation of weaknesses
- Maneuvering
- Exploitation of the poor placement of pieces
- Passed pawn
- Capturing space
- Endgame technique
2. Games
- International tournaments
- World Championship matches
- Simultaneous (blindfold)
- Olympiad
- Simultaneous
- Blindfold
- Blitz
- Moscow Championship
- Russia Championship
- Games
- Game (blindfold)
- Game (exhibition)
- AVRO tournament
- Duras-60 tournament
- Matches
- Simultaneous (time)
- Tournament
- Tournament (Russian masters)
What's New in the Latest Version 3.4.0
Last updated on Oct 12, 2024
- Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - this feature combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents a more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
- Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
- Added daily goal for puzzles - choose how many exercises you need to keep your skills sharp.
- Added daily streak - track how many consecutive days you meet your daily goal.
- Various fixes and improvements
