640 Games Played by the World Champion
Dive into the chess mastery of the 3rd World Champion, Jose Raul Capablanca, with this comprehensive course featuring 640 deeply annotated games. Additionally, explore 250 of the most interesting and instructive positions from his games in the special program "Play as Capablanca." This course is part of the renowned Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), designed to elevate your chess skills from beginner to professional levels. The series covers various aspects of the game, including tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame.
With this course, you'll enhance your chess knowledge, discover new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical settings. The program acts as a personal coach, providing tasks to solve and offering guidance when you're stuck. It delivers hints, explanations, and even showcases striking refutations of common mistakes.
The course also includes a theoretical section that interactively explains game methods at different stages, using real examples. You can read the lessons, make moves on the board, and practice challenging scenarios.
Advantages of the Program:
- High-Quality Examples: All examples are double-checked for accuracy.
- Key Move Input: You'll need to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach.
- Varied Complexity: Tasks are available at different levels of difficulty.
- Diverse Goals: Achieve various objectives within the problems.
- Error Hints: The program provides hints when errors are made.
- Mistake Refutations: Typical mistaken moves are shown with refutations.
- Play Against Computer: You can play any position against the computer.
- Interactive Lessons: Theoretical lessons are presented interactively.
- Structured Content: Features a well-organized table of contents.
- ELO Monitoring: Tracks changes in your ELO rating during the learning process.
- Flexible Testing: Includes a test mode with customizable settings.
- Bookmarking: Ability to bookmark favorite exercises.
- Tablet Compatibility: Optimized for larger screens.
- Offline Access: No internet connection required.
- Multi-Device Sync: Sync with a free Chess King account to access the course across Android, iOS, and Web platforms.
The course offers a free section where you can fully test the program. The free lessons are fully functional, allowing you to evaluate the app in real-world conditions before unlocking additional topics.
Course Content:
Jose Raul Capablanca
- 1901 to 1939, covering his career year by year.
Attack on the King
Positional Play
- Creating and exploiting weaknesses
- Improving piece positions and planning
- Fighting for the initiative
- Pawn advances and opening files
- Exploiting bad piece positions
Skill of Exchange
Combinations and Tactical Blows
Playing an Endgame
Converting an Advantage into a Win
Skill of Defense
What's New in Version 2.4.2 (Updated Jul 18, 2023):
- Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition, combining erroneous exercises with new ones for an optimized puzzle set.
- Ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
- Daily puzzle goal to maintain your skills.
- Daily streak feature to track consecutive days of goal completion.
- Various fixes and improvements.
