Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)

This is a perfect opening manual. It features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the greatest chess players. This compact opening manual contains a detailed classification, which makes it useful to players of any level - beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristics of key moves. The history of the variations development is described, as well as their current status. The theoretic material is nicely illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations that demonstrate the principal ideas and plans of each variation for White and Black. There is also a special training section with more than 350 exercises of various difficulty on more than 40 openings.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.The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.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♔ Interactive theoretical lessons♔ 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 timeThe 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. Rare variations1.1. 1. g3, 1. b4, ..1.2. 1. b31.3. 1. d41.4. 1. d4 Nf61.5. 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf32. Alekhines defense3. Benoni defense4. Birds opening5. Bishops opening6. Blumenfeld counter-gambit7. Bogo-Indian defense8. Budapest gambit9. Caro-Kann10. Catalan system11. Center gambit12. Dutch defense13. English opening14. Evans gambit15. Four knights game16. French defense17. Grünfeld defense18. Italian game & Hungarian defense19. Kings Indian defense20. Latvian gambit21. Nimzo-Indian defense22. Nimzowitsch defense23. Old Indian defense24. Philidors defense25. Pirc-Robatsch defense26. Queens gambit27. Queens Indian defense28. Queens pawn game29. Reti opening30. Petrovs defense31. Ruy Lopez32. Scandinavian defense33. Scotch gambit & Ponzianis opening34. Scotch game35. Sicilian defense36. Three knights game37. Two knights defense38. Vienna game39. Volga-Benko gambit40. The complete course of openings* Added notifications settings; select which notifications you want to see in the Practice* "Go" floating button on the home screen now opens the first new exercise* Added Instagram share for puzzles* Added voice chooser setting for Animation* Improved dark theme support, you can now use "Follow system" option to match your system theme* Make statistics colors in the light theme more bright* Copy full exercise PGN to the engine after solution* Various fixes and improvements