Simple Defense

As a beginner, your first step is learning to protect your chess pieces!

If you're new to chess, it's essential to learn how to defend your pieces against capture! Every player must master foundational defensive techniques, such as retreating or protecting a piece, intercepting, or counter-attacking an opponent's piece. By practicing with numerous exercises, you will strengthen your skills and enhance your gameplay. This course features over 2,800 exercises, many with crowded boards. The sheer volume makes it an outstanding tool for rapidly training chess novices.

This course belongs to the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess teaching method. The series includes lessons in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for all skill levels from beginner to advanced, and even professional players.

Using this course will help you deepen your chess understanding, discover new tactical ideas and combinations, and apply your knowledge in practice.

The program acts as your personal coach, assigning tasks and providing support when you're stuck. You'll receive hints, explanations, and see clear refutations for common mistakes.

Program benefits:

♔ High-quality examples, all verified for accuracy

♔ You must enter all key moves as required

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in each problem

♔ Hints provided when you make an error

♔ Demonstrates refutations for typical incorrect moves

♔ Play out any position from the exercises against the computer

♔ Well-organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your training

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark your favorite exercises

♔ Optimized for tablet displays

♔ Works completely offline

♔ Sync your progress across devices—link the app to a free Chess King account and access one course simultaneously on Android, iOS, and Web

The course includes a free section to try the program. The free lessons are fully functional, letting you evaluate the app under real conditions before unlocking additional topics:

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Capturing an attacking piece

4. Interception

5. Defending against checkmate

6. Difficulty level