Chess Strategy for Beginners is a board app developed by Chess King.
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Chess Strategy for Beginners has been downloaded 380 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 270 times.
User Ratings
Chess Strategy for Beginners is rated 4.35 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 2 thousand ratings.
App Information
Chess Strategy for Beginners is FREE to download. The APK download size is 18.66 MB. The latest version available is 5.7.5. The last update was on May 21, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Chess Strategy for Beginners requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2015.
Description
This course is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength. This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing a material or positional advantage. This program includes 55 lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples and exercises. This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!
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 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. Utilizing a decisive material advantage 1.1. Mating with major pieces 1.2. Mating with a rook 1.3. Mating with a queen 1.4. Mating with two bishops 1.5. Mating with bishop and knight (king is on the edge) 1.6. Mating with bishop and knight (king is in the center) 1.7. Mating with two knights 1.8. Different kinds of large material advantage 1.9. How to solve chess problems 2. The three stages of a chess game 2.1. How to play in the opening 2.2. Quick mobilization of forces 2.3. Fighting for the center 2.4. Harmonius pawn structure 2.5. What to do after the opening? 2.6. About endgame 2.7. Basic endgame rules 3. Basic pawn endings 3.1. The rule of the square 3.2. More about the rule of the square 3.3. The king helps the pawn 3.4. Opposition 3.5. The key squares 4. The fundamentals of chess tactics 4.1. Tactical methods 4.2. Combination and its components 4.3. Double attack 4.4. Knight and pawn forks 4.5. Exploiting a pin 4.6. How to fight against pins 4.7. Discovered attack 4.8. Discovered check 4.9. "Mill" 4.10. Double check 4.11. Decoy 4.12. Blocking 4.13. Smothered mate 4.14. Distraction 4.15. Weakness of the back rank 4.16. Square clearance 4.17. Line clearance 5. Utilizing a material or positional advantage
Recent changes: * Added Czech and Korean translations * Show separate theory/practice/animation buttons for the courses contents to allow direct access * Show best and worst subtopics on the statistics screen * Increased board size in the landscape mode * Feel free to share your experience via the feedback! * Various fixes and improvements
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Comments on Chess Strategy for Beginners for Android
★★★★★Rene Salcedo· Dec 13, 2020
Combination of Theory and Practice: very useful. The exercises are very helpful. A good resource for learning chess strategy!
★★★★★Joseph Sperlazza· Jul 2, 2022
As a beginner I find the app very helpful. I'm now seeing opportunities and risks much more readily.
★★★★★HIDEO MIT UNS· Oct 29, 2022
Amazing app. However, it is more like a coach that tells you what skills you need to develop. It covers 3 major areas of chess. 1. Tactics and analysis/ calculation. 2. Strategy/ planning/ what to aim for in 3 game phases.3. Specific endgame knowledge needed under 1800. I couldn't answer some questions at many points, I found the books that answered. They were winning chess endgames, winning chess strategies both by Sarawak and forcing chess moves/ think like a grand master for calculation.
★★★★★Ray Aventador· Jun 18, 2021
Honest to goodness if you have very good tactical ability by doing a lot of mate in 2 puzzles and tactics puzzles plus your rating is around 1100 online, this course is for you. It really is a mini "Fundamentals of Chess" ala Capablanca style. Brought me to 1400 online
★★★★☆HIDEO MIT UNS· Oct 2, 2021
It makes sense to do this course if your tactical vision, safety (not hanging pieces or losing pieces to simple tactics) and thought process is good. I would pair this with chess tactics for beginners(assuming you finished elementary tactics well and can spot the answers within 5 sec.) Do not do this course if you are not a safe player, making blunders and hanging pieces every time. No amount of material here will help someone who hasn't grasped safety or "is my move safe?"
★☆☆☆☆awesomeredpanda x· Jan 4, 2022
I have my king two rooks one is going to die but the other can kill it, but it says the knight can kill my other rook. IDK it's a little hard for the knight to kill if its dead
★☆☆☆☆Alex L.· Apr 22, 2022
Non-Functioning Collection of chess materials. The program does not work. To contact the support is impossible. You could save your money and buy something else.
★☆☆☆☆John K· Jul 17, 2021
So what do those red arrows mean????????????????????????
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