Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)

This comprehensive chess opening manual provides a theoretical overview of all major openings, illustrated with instructive games from chess masters. Its detailed classification makes it suitable for players of all levels, from beginners to advanced. Each variation includes evaluations, key move characteristics, historical development, and current status. Classic games with detailed annotations showcase the strategic ideas and plans for both White and Black. Over 350 exercises of varying difficulty across 40+ openings are included for focused training.

This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a unique chess teaching methodology. The series offers courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, including professionals.

The course helps improve chess knowledge, learn tactical tricks and combinations, and solidify learned concepts through practice. The program acts as an interactive coach, providing tasks, hints, explanations, and refutations of common mistakes. Interactive theoretical lessons allow you to work through examples on the board.

Key Features:

• High-quality, verified examples.
• Required key move input.
• Varied task difficulty levels.
• Diverse problem-solving objectives.
• Hints and error refutations.
• Play against the computer.
• Interactive theory lessons.
• Organized table of contents.
• ELO rating tracking.
• Customizable test mode.
• Bookmarking functionality.
• Tablet-optimized interface.
• Offline access.
• Multi-device syncing via a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web).

A free version allows you to test the program's functionality. The free lessons are fully functional and provide a representative sample before purchasing the complete course. The full course covers:

1. Rare Variations (1. g3, 1. b4, 1. b3, 1. d4, etc.)
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. Comprehensive Opening Course