If you're an avid chess player with an ELO rating of 2400, the "Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations vol. 3 (ECC vol. 3)" is your go-to resource for honing your skills. This volume, based on the latest edition from Chess Informant, offers 1000 high-quality puzzles specifically tailored for players at your level. Unlike the scattered, basic tactics found online, ECC vol. 3 provides a systematic and thematic approach to chess combinations, ensuring a challenging and efficient training experience. Each puzzle is hand-picked to unveil new intricacies, keeping you engaged and pushing your skills to the next level.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a groundbreaking method for chess education. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to players from beginners to professionals. With ECC vol. 3, you can enhance your chess knowledge, master new tactical tricks, and apply them in real games.
The program serves as a personal coach, presenting tasks and offering guidance when you're stuck. It provides hints, explanations, and even shows striking refutations of common mistakes. Additionally, the theoretical section explains game strategies at various stages, using interactive examples that allow you to practice moves on the board.
Key advantages of the program include:
- High-quality, double-checked examples
- Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed
- Varied levels of task complexity
- Diverse goals to achieve within the problems
- Hints for errors and refutations for typical mistakes
- Ability to play out any position against the computer
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Structured table of contents
- Monitoring of ELO rating changes during learning
- 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
The course includes a free section where you can test the program's functionality. The free lessons cover essential topics such as Annihilation of Defence, Blockade, Clearance, Deflection, Discovered Attack, Pinning, Demolition of Pawn Structure, Decoy, Interference, and Double Attack, allowing you to experience the application in real-world conditions before diving into the full course.
What's New in the Latest Version 3.4.0
Last updated on Oct 12, 2024, the latest version 3.4.0 introduces several enhancements:
- A training mode based on Spaced Repetition, which mixes erroneous exercises with new ones to present a tailored set of puzzles.
- The ability to launch tests on bookmarked exercises.
- A daily goal feature for puzzles, allowing you to set a target number of exercises to maintain your skills.
- A daily streak tracker to monitor consecutive days of meeting your daily goal.
- Various fixes and improvements to enhance the overall user experience.
