Discover the most comprehensive collection of chess games ever played by the legendary World Champion, Mikhail Botvinnik, with a staggering 1069 games spanning from 1924 to 1970. This exceptional course offers a unique "Play as Botvinnik" feature, presenting 350 quiz positions where you can test your skills against the master's moves.
This course is part of the renowned Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a groundbreaking method for chess education. The series includes specialized courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored to cater to players from beginners to professionals.
With this course, you can elevate your chess expertise, learn innovative tactical tricks and combinations, and effectively apply your newfound knowledge in real games. The program serves as a personal coach, presenting you with tasks to solve and guiding you through them with hints, explanations, and even demonstrating powerful refutations of common mistakes.
The course also features a theoretical section, offering interactive lessons that explain game methods at various stages, illustrated with real game examples. This interactive approach allows you to not only read the lessons but also make moves on the board and practice challenging positions.
Key Advantages of the Program:
- High-Quality Examples: Every example is meticulously double-checked for accuracy.
- Key Move Requirement: You must enter all crucial moves as instructed by the coach.
- Varied Complexity: Tasks are available at different levels of difficulty.
- Diverse Objectives: Achieve various goals set within the problems.
- Error Hints: The program provides hints when you make a mistake.
- Mistake Refutations: Typical errors are shown with their refutations.
- Play Against the Computer: You can play out any position against the computer.
- Interactive Theory Lessons: Engage with the theoretical lessons interactively.
- Structured Content: A well-organized table of contents.
- ELO Monitoring: Track changes in your ELO rating during the learning process.
- Flexible Test Mode: Customize your testing experience with flexible settings.
- Bookmarking: Save your favorite exercises for later review.
- Tablet Compatibility: Optimized for larger screens.
- Offline Access: No internet connection required.
- Multi-Device Sync: Link to a free Chess King account to access the course across multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web.
The course includes a free section, allowing you to experience the full functionality of the program before unlocking additional topics. The free version provides a real-world test of the application's capabilities.
Course Content:
Mikhail Botvinnik
- 1.1. 1924-1926
- 1.2. 1926
- 1.3. 1926-1927
- 1.4. 1927
- 1.5. 1927-1929
- 1.6. 1929
- 1.7. 1930
- 1.8. 1930-1931
- 1.9. 1931
- 1.10. 1932
- 1.11. 1932-1933
- 1.12. 1933
- 1.13. 1934
- 1.14. 1934-1935
- 1.15. 1935
- 1.16. 1936
- 1.17. 1937
- 1.18. 1938
- 1.19. 1939
- 1.20. 1940
- 1.21. 1941
- 1.22. 1943
- 1.23. 1943-1944
- 1.24. 1944
- 1.25. 1945
- 1.26. 1946
- 1.27. 1947
- 1.28. 1948
- 1.29. 1951
- 1.30. 1952
- 1.31. 1953
- 1.32. 1954
- 1.33. 1955
- 1.34. 1956
- 1.35. 1957
- 1.36. 1958
- 1.37. 1959
- 1.38. 1960
- 1.39. 1961
- 1.40. 1961-1962
- 1.41. 1962
- 1.42. 1963
- 1.43. 1964
- 1.44. 1965
- 1.45. 1966
- 1.46. 1966-1967
- 1.47. 1967
- 1.48. 1968
- 1.49. 1969
- 1.50. 1970
Opening
Combinations
- 3.1. Pawn combinations
- 3.2. Exploiting bad positions of opponent's pieces
- 3.3. Mating combinations
Tactical Blows
- 4.1. Intermediate moves
- 4.2. "Small" combinations
- 4.3. Forced variations
- 4.4. Refuting a trap by "falling" into it
Attack on the King
- 5.1. Attack on the uncastled king
- 5.2. Both opponents castled to the same side
- 5.3. Opposite side castling
Positional Play
- 6.1. Creating and exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's camp
- 6.2. Improving one's own pieces' positions
- 6.3. Exploiting bad positions of opponent's pieces
- 6.4. Blockade
- 6.5. Beneficial exchanges
- 6.6. Prevention
- 6.7. Positional sacrifices
- 6.8. Attack in the center and on the Q-side
- 6.9. Changing a pawn structure, breakthrough, opening up files
Defense
- 7.1. Counterattack
- 7.2. Exchange
Converting a Material Advantage into a Win
Maneuvering
Traps
Simple Positions
Endings
What's New in Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Aug 5, 2024
- Added Training Mode: Based on Spaced Repetition, combining erroneous exercises with new ones to present the most suitable set of puzzles.
- Test on Bookmarks: Ability to launch tests on bookmarked exercises.
- Daily Puzzle Goal: Set a daily goal for puzzles to maintain your skills.
- Daily Streak: Track how many consecutive days you meet your daily goal.
- Various Fixes and Improvements: Enhancing the overall user experience.
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