Description
Mark Dvoretsky is well known as the world's leading chess trainer. Many of his pupils have won World and European championships in their youth and got Grandmaster titles later on; Among them, Artur Yusupov, Nana Aleksandria, Sergey Dolmatov, and Aleksey Dreev took part in candidates' matches for the world championship. To a certain degree, the secret of many Soviet Grandmasters was due to Dvoretsky's efficient method of chess training, as well as with his unique exercise cardfile. In particular, there are many extremely instructive positional exercises as well as exercises designed for developing the qualities required for the practical player - searching in an optimal way and taking the right decisions. These exercises help, for example, to develop one's positional feeling, imagination, calculation technique, the art of setting traps or exchanging pieces favorably at the right moment...Not long ago, this cardfile was available only to his carefully selected pupils. Now, after extensive work computerizing, classifying, and verifying the material, it’s now possible for every aspiring chess playing to own it. It is particularly useful for advanced players - from experts to grandmasters. The computerized system enables you to use modern training methods which either were unavailable previously or could be used only in direct work with a trainer. It will bring first-class material to chess players and chess teachers to serve them for years, and help them to significantly improve their playing level. This course includes 200 carefully selected exercises for expert, master and advanced players (ELO 2000 – 2400) on the following chess themes:Strategy and PlanCalculation of VariationsEndgame TechniqueDefending Inferior Positions
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. Training system by Mark Dvoretsky
1.1. Strategy and plan
1.2. Calculating variations
1.3. Endgame technique
1.4. Defense in bad positions
What's New in the Latest Version 3.4.0
* 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
