Simple Defense

For beginners, the essential first step is mastering how to protect your pieces!

As a beginner, you must learn to defend your pieces from capture! Every chess player needs to master and reinforce fundamental defensive techniques, such as retreating a piece, protecting it, intercepting, or counter-attacking an opponent's unit. By consolidating your understanding through numerous practical exercises, you will elevate your playing strength. This course offers over 2,800 exercises featuring crowded boards, making it an ideal tool for the rapid training of novice players.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess training methodology. The series encompasses instruction in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by skill level—from beginner to advanced, and even professional players.

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

The program functions as a personal coach: it assigns problems and provides support when you're stuck. It offers hints, clear explanations, and demonstrates powerful refutations for common errors.

Program features:

♔ High-quality examples, each verified for accuracy

♔ Required entry of all key moves, as instructed

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to accomplish in each problem

♔ Hints provided when a mistake is made

♔ Refutations shown for typical incorrect moves

♔ Option to play out any position from the exercises against the computer

♔ Organized table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes during the learning process

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark favorite exercises

♔ Optimized for tablet displays

♔ Works offline

♔ Sync your progress across multiple devices—Android, iOS, and Web—with a free Chess King account

A free version is included so you can evaluate the program. The free lessons are fully functional, giving you a chance to experience the app before purchasing additional topics:

1. Retreat

2. Defending with another piece

3. Capturing an attacking piece

4. Interception

5. Defending against checkmate

6. Difficulty levels