Alekhine

The program features an extensive collection of 1300 deeply annotated chess games played by the legendary 4th World Champion, Alexander Alekhine. Among these, 600 games are annotated for the first time, providing unique insights into Alekhine's strategic and tactical prowess. Additionally, the course includes 200 carefully selected positions for you to solve, drawn from the most instructive moments of Alekhine's games, presented in a dedicated section.

This course is part of the renowned Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers an unparalleled chess teaching methodology. The series covers various aspects of chess including tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored to different skill levels ranging from beginners to professional players.

With this course, you can enhance your chess knowledge, master new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply your newly acquired skills in real games. The program serves as an interactive coach, providing tasks to solve and offering guidance when you encounter difficulties. It delivers hints, detailed explanations, and even shows striking refutations of common mistakes.

The program includes a theoretical section that elucidates game strategies at different stages, using actual examples from games. This section is interactive, allowing you to not only read the lesson texts but also make moves on the board to practice and clarify ambiguous positions.

Key advantages of the program include:

• High-quality, double-checked examples
• Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
• Varied levels of task complexity
• Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
• Hints provided when errors are made
• Refutations shown for typical mistakes
• Ability to play out any task position against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• Monitoring of the player's ELO rating changes during the learning process
• Flexible test mode settings
• Option to bookmark favorite exercises
• Adaptation to larger tablet screens
• No internet connection required
• Linking to a free Chess King account for multi-device access on Android, iOS, and Web platforms

The course offers a free section where you can fully experience the program's functionality before deciding to delve deeper into the following topics:

1. Play like Alekhine
   1. Tactical blows
   2. Combinations
   3. Attack on the king
   4. Pawn sacrifice for the initiative
   5. Creation and exploitation of open files and diagonals
   6. Creation and exploitation of weaknesses
   7. Maneuvering
   8. Exploitation of the poor placement of pieces
   9. Passed pawn
   10. Capturing space
   11. Endgame technique
2. Games
   1. International tournaments
   2. World Championship matches
   3. Simultaneous (blindfold)
   4. Olympiad
   5. Simultaneous
   6. Blindfold
   7. Blitz
   8. Moscow Championship
   9. Russia Championship
   10. Games
   11. Blindfold game
   12. Exhibition game
   13. AVRO tournament
   14. Duras-60 tournament
   15. Match
   16. Simultaneous (time)
   17. Tournament
   18. Tournament (Russian masters)

What's New in the Latest Version 3.4.0

Last updated on Oct 12, 2024:

• Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the most suitable set of puzzles to solve.
• Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
• Added daily goal for puzzles - choose how many exercises you need to keep your skills in shape.
• Added daily streak - tracks how many consecutive days the daily goal is completed.
• Various fixes and improvements.