1069 Games Played by the World Champion
The most comprehensive collection of Botvinnik's games ever compiled, featuring up to 1069 chess matches played between 1924 and 1970. Includes a special "Play as Botvinnik" section with 350 quiz positions for you to find the strong and beautiful moves he made in his games.
This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), an unprecedented chess teaching method. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.
With this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate acquired knowledge into practice.
The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps if you get stuck. It provides hints, explanations, and shows striking refutations of mistakes you might make.
The program also contains a theoretical section explaining methods in certain stages based on actual examples. The theory is presented interactively, meaning you can not only read the text but also make moves on the board to work out unclear positions.
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 in tasks
- ♔ Various goals that need to be reached in problems
- ♔ The program gives a hint if an error is made
- ♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown
- ♔ You can play out any position of tasks against the computer
- ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
- ♔ Structured table of contents
- ♔ The program monitors changes in player rating (ELO) during learning
- ♔ Test mode with flexible settings
- ♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises
- ♔ Adapted for larger tablet screens
- ♔ No internet connection required
- ♔ Link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web simultaneously
The course includes a free part where you can test the program. Lessons in the free version are fully functional, allowing you to test the application before releasing further topics:
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- 1924-1926
- 1926
- 1926-1927
- 1927
- 1927-1929
- 1929
- 1930
- 1930-1931
- 1931
- 1932
- 1932-1933
- 1933
- 1934
- 1934-1935
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939
- 1940
- 1941
- 1943
- 1943-1944
- 1944
- 1945
- 1946
- 1947
- 1948
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960
- 1961
- 1961-1962
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1966-1967
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970
- Opening
- Combinations
- Pawn combinations
- Exploiting bad positions of opponent's pieces
- Mating combinations
- Tactical blows
- Intermediate moves
- "Small" combinations
- Forced variations
- Refuting a trap by "falling" into it
- Attack on the king
- Attack on uncastled king
- Both opponents castled to same side
- Opposite side castling
- Positional play
- Creating and exploiting weaknesses in opponent's camp
- Improving own pieces' positions
- Exploiting bad positions of opponent's pieces
- Blockade
- Beneficial exchanges
- Prevention
- Positional sacrifices
- Attack in center and on Q-side
- Changing pawn structure, breakthrough, opening files
- Defense
- Counterattack
- Exchange
- Converting material advantage into win
- Maneuvering
- Traps
- Simple positions
- Endings
What's New in Latest Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Aug 5, 2024
- Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents a 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 skills in shape.
- Added daily streak - number of consecutive days the daily goal is completed.
- Various fixes and improvements
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