Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

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4.6
520 reviews
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Everyone
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About this game

If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces from being taken! Every chessplayer has to master and consolidate some basic defensive skills such as withdrawing or protecting a piece, interception or attacking an opponent's piece. Having consolidated your knowledge by doing a great number of exercises you will be able to improve your level of playing. This course includes more than 2800 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners.

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. Retreat
2. Defending with another piece
3. Taking an attacking piece
4. Interception
5. Defending from mate
6. Difficulty level
Updated on
Jul 5, 2023

Data safety

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This app may share these data types with third parties
Location
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity, and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
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Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.6
452 reviews
Jim Hoffman
November 2, 2021
These are chess puzzles. They are challenging at first but after a while you will see patterns and the solutions become easier and faster. That what chess is, recognizing patterns that your opponent doesn't see. I am very pleased with this app. I work with it every day.
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Jonathan Toback
May 21, 2021
great chess puzzles app for defensive moves that aren't typical in puzzles or books. it's hard to find ways to train on this aspect of my game and this app does a great job of it.
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HIDEO MIT UNS
August 31, 2021
I honestly believe getting 95 percent at good speed in :capture 1, 2, mate in 1, 2 and elementary tactics 1 and 2 with this defense puzzle set included from chess king will easily put anyone at 1200
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What's new

* 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