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Chess School for Beginners

Chess King
★ 4.3 (2,013 ratings)
⬇ 100,000+ downloads
Est. actual: 425,707
Style: Board
Free
Released: Apr 28, 2016
IAP: $7.99 per item
Contains ads
Rated: Everyone

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5.7.5 May 22, 2026 · seen Sep 26, 2026
* Added Czech and Korean translations<br>* Show separate theory/practice/animation buttons for the courses contents to allow direct access<br>* Show best and worst subtopics on the statistics screen<br>* Increased board size in the landscape mode<br>* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!<br>* Various fixes and improvements<br>
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This friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 2 main sections: Chess rules and Playing. 500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student. 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. The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board. 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 ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons ♔ 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. Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Chess board 1.3. Chess pieces 1.4. Starting position 2. Pieces' moves 2.1. Rook 2.2. Bishop 2.3. Queen 2.4. Knight 2.5. King 2.6. Pawn 3. Pawn promotion 4. The relative value of the pieces 5. The role of the king. Check and mate 5.1. Check 5.2. Getting out of check 5.3. Mate 5.4. Castling 5.5. Mate in one move 5.6. Stalemate 5.7. Perpetual check 6. Capture 7. Notation (How to read moves) 8. Elementary capture 8.1. Winning a knight 8.2. Winning a bishop 8.3. Winning a rook 8.4. Winning a queen 8.5. Win a piece 9. Simple defense 9.1. Retreat 9.2. Defending with another piece 9.3. Taking an attacking piece 9.4. Interception 9.5. Defending from mate 10. Chess skills development 11. The role of the king. Continuation 11.1. Mate in 1 11.2. Mate in 2 11.3. Discovered check 11.4. Double check 11.5. Perpetual check 11.6. Stalemate 12. King and queen against a king 13. King and rook against a king 14. King and minor piece against a king 15. King and a pawn against a king 16. Etiquette during a game 17. Chess mazes