Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)

This comprehensive manual is the perfect entry point.

This guide offers a deep theoretical review of all chess openings, demonstrated through instructive games of the greatest chess players. Its compact design houses a detailed classification system, making it valuable for players at any level—from beginner to advanced. Each opening variation comes with clear evaluations and explanations of key moves, along with its historical development and current standing. Core ideas and strategic plans for White and Black are illustrated through expertly annotated classic games. A dedicated training section features over 350 exercises of varying difficulty, covering more than 40 openings.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), an elite chess training method. The series offers comprehensive courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegames, and endgames, tailored to everyone from beginners to professionals.

Through this course, you can elevate your chess knowledge, master new tactical tricks and combinations, and solidify your understanding through practice.

The program serves as a personal coach, assigning tasks and offering support when you're stuck. It provides helpful hints, detailed explanations, and demonstrates effective refutations for common mistakes.

A built-in theoretical section explains key concepts and strategies for each game stage using practical examples. The lessons are fully interactive, allowing you to not just read the material but also to practice moves and explore variations directly on the board.

Advantages of the program:

♔ High-quality, thoroughly verified examples

♔ Requirement to input all key moves as instructed

♔ Tasks ranging across multiple difficulty levels

♔ Various objectives to achieve in each problem

♔ Immediate hints provided upon errors

♔ Clear refutations shown for typical wrong moves

♔ Ability to play any task position against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Clear, structured table of contents

♔ ELO rating tracker to monitor your learning progress

♔ Customizable test mode

♔ Bookmark favorite exercises for easy access

♔ Fully optimized for larger tablet screens

♔ No internet connection required for use

♔ Link to a free Chess King account and sync your progress across Android, iOS, and Web simultaneously

The course includes a free trial to evaluate the program. The lessons in the free version are fully functional, letting you experience the app in real conditions before unlocking the full course, which covers:

1. Rare variations

1.1. 1. g3, 1. b4, ..

1.2. 1. b3

1.3. 1. d4

1.4. 1. d4 Nf6

1.5. 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3

2. Alekhine's defense

3. Benoni defense

4. Bird's opening

5. Bishop's opening

6. Blumenfeld counter-gambit

7. Bogo-Indian defense

8. Budapest gambit

9. Caro-Kann

10. Catalan system

11. Center gambit

12. Dutch defense

13. English opening

14. Evans gambit

15. Four knights' game

16. French defense

17. Grünfeld defense

18. Italian game & Hungarian defense

19. King's Indian defense

20. Latvian gambit

21. Nimzo-Indian defense

22. Nimzowitsch defense

23. Old Indian defense

24. Philidor's defense

25. Pirc-Robatsch defense

26. Queen's gambit

27. Queen's Indian defense

28. Queen's pawn game

29. Reti opening

30. Petrov's defense

31. Ruy Lopez

32. Scandinavian defense

33. Scotch gambit & Ponziani's opening

34. Scotch game

35. Sicilian defense

36. Three knights' game

37. Two knights' defense

38. Vienna game

39. Volga-Benko gambit

40. The complete course of openings

Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000) Screenshots