If you're looking to elevate your chess skills to an ELO of 2400, the Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations vol. 3 (ECC vol. 3) is your go-to resource. This comprehensive educational tool, based on the latest edition of the bestselling book by Chess Informant, offers 1000 high-quality puzzles specifically designed for players at the Advanced Level (ELO 2400). Unlike the scattered basic tactics found online, ECC vol. 3 provides a systematic, themed approach to mastering chess combinations, ensuring an exciting and efficient learning experience.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which revolutionizes chess education with courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame. These are tailored for everyone from beginners to professional players, helping you to enhance your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks, and apply them in practice.
Acting as a personal coach, the program presents you with puzzles to solve, offering hints, explanations, and even showcasing striking refutations of your mistakes. Additionally, it includes an interactive theoretical section that elucidates game strategies at various stages, using real-life examples. This interactive approach allows you to read lesson texts, make moves on the board, and practice unclear moves.
The advantages of the program are manifold:
- ♔ High-quality, double-checked examples for correctness
- ♔ Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the teacher
- ♔ Tasks of varying complexity
- ♔ Different goals to achieve within the problems
- ♔ Hints provided for errors
- ♔ Refutations shown for typical mistaken moves
- ♔ Ability to play out any position against the computer
- ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
- ♔ Structured table of contents
- ♔ Monitoring of the player's ELO rating changes during learning
- ♔ Flexible settings for test mode
- ♔ Bookmarking of favorite exercises
- ♔ Adaptation to larger tablet screens
- ♔ No internet connection required
- ♔ Synchronization across multiple devices via a free Chess King account on Android, iOS, and Web
The course features a free section that fully functions, allowing you to experience the program in real-world conditions before unlocking further topics such as Annihilation of Defence, Blockade, Clearance, Deflection, Discovered Attack, Pinning, Demolition of Pawn Structure, Decoy, Interference, and Double Attack.
What's New in the Latest Version 3.4.0
Last updated on Oct 12, 2024
- 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 - choose how many exercises 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.
