Simple Defense

Master Essential Chess Defenses: A Beginner's Guide

New to chess? Focus on mastering defensive skills! This is crucial for any chess player, regardless of skill level. Learn to protect your pieces through techniques like withdrawing, shielding, intercepting opponent pieces, and countering attacks. Consistent practice is key to improvement.

This course provides over 2800 exercises, offering extensive practice with complex board positions. It's a perfect tool for rapid progress for beginners.

Part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course utilizes a unique teaching method. The series offers courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by skill level from beginner to professional.

Enhance your chess understanding, discover new tactical maneuvers, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program acts as a personal coach, providing problems, hints, explanations, and even demonstrating how to counter your mistakes.

Key Features:

• High-quality, thoroughly verified examples.
• Requires accurate input of all key moves.
• Exercises with varying difficulty levels.
• Diverse problem-solving objectives.
• Provides hints for errors.
• Demonstrates refutations for common mistakes.
• Allows playing through any position against the computer.
• Organized table of contents.
• Tracks ELO rating progress.
• Flexible test mode settings.
• Bookmarking of favorite exercises.
• Tablet-optimized interface.
• Offline functionality.
• Account linking for multi-device access (Android, iOS, Web).

A free version is available to test the program's functionality. This includes fully functional lessons allowing you to experience the app before purchasing additional content covering:

1. Piece Retreat
2. Defense using other pieces
3. Capturing attacking pieces
4. Interception
5. Mating defense
6. Difficulty adjustments