If you are a beginner, you should practice much to mate in one move. This course provides excellent material for this training. The big number of exercises (2500) covers different methods of mating. Many of them is an excellent tool for speed training even for stronger players. This is a rare course that is intended even for players with USCF rating of 600. Even if you only study and solve 10% of the exercises, you will learn a huge number of mating patterns and probably never miss a mate in one again!
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.
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
♔ 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. Few-figured positions
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Any piece checkmates
2. Many-figured positions
2.1. Rook checkmates
2.2. Queen checkmates
2.3. Bishop checkmates
2.4. Knight checkmates
2.5. Pawn checkmates
2.6. Any piece checkmates
3. Complicated positions
3.1. Checkmates with help of the King
3.2. Underpromotions
3.3. Mate with pawn promotion
3.4. Discovered check
3.5. Double check
4. Any piece checkmates
4.1. Volume 1
4.2. Volume 2
4.3. Volume 3
4.4. Volume 4
4.5. Volume 5
4.6. Volume 6
4.7. Volume 7
4.8. Volume 8
4.9. Volume 9
4.10. Volume 10
4.11. Volume 11
4.12. Volume 12
4.13. Volume 13
4.14. Volume 14
4.15. Volume 15
4.16. Volume 16
4.17. Volume 17
4.18. Volume 18
4.19. Volume 19
4.20. Volume 20
4.21. Volume 21
4.22. Volume 22
4.23. Volume 23
* Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
* Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
* Added daily goal for puzzles - chose how many exercise you need to keep your skills in shape.
* Added daily streak - how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
* Various fixes and improvements
* Redesigned app screens. You can set avatars now. Feel free to share your comments!
* Added new piece theme - "Kosal".
* Added colored King icon to indicate side to move in puzzles.
* Added popping up "Next" button after a puzzle.
* Improved lesson's exercises screen
* Improved tasks share option.
* Fixed dark screen in Practice on Android 11.
* Various fixes and improvements
* Added Japanese, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish
* Added notifications settings; select notifications you want to see in the Practice
* "Go" floating button on the home screen now opens the first new exercise
* Added Instagram share for puzzles
* Improved dark theme support, you can now use "Follow system" option to match your system theme
* Make statistics colors in the light theme more bright
* Copy full exercise PGN to the engine after solution
* Various fixes and improvements
* Added Help section in the Settings
* Ability to select several themes in test
* Various fixes and improvements
* Chess King app released! Now you can study all courses within one app! The app provides subscriptions to all courses.
* Added Arabic, Indonesian, Filipino and Vietnamese translations
* Added night mode
* Added option to disable popup ads for 1 hour
* Added "Make current move" button in engine analysis mode
* Theory exercises are now marked as read after 3 seconds
* Fixed display issue on Android 8 in landscape mode
* Improved engine mode
* Various fixes and improvements
* Chess King app released! Now you can study all courses within one app! Download new Chess King app from Google Play! All statistics and purchases can be transfered to the new app using Chess King account linking.
* Showing hint arrows when trying to make impossible move (useful in case of checkmate)
* Showing pieces balance panel in practice (scroll navigation panel with arrows to view)
* Various fixes and improvements
* Support subscriptions, you can buy subscription to all courses at learn.chessking.com* Improved home screen design* Improved refutations showing* Various fixes and improvements
* Support subscriptions, you can buy subscription to all courses at learn.chessking.com* Improved refutations showing* Various fixes and improvements
Attention! You should have an internet connection on the first launch to verify your purchase!* Added Chinese translations* Added cloud sync option for statistics and bookmarks* Added "Auto hints" option - you can use it to turn off automatic hints after wrong move attempts* Added solved exercises graph on the statistics screen* Added Tag (colored commentaries) option for bookmarks* Improved puzzles sharing into images* Various fixes and improvements
