Chess Middlegame IV
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4th part of play methods analysis in middlegame - 560 lessons and 530 studies
- Rating
- 4.8
- 234 ratings
- Downloads
- 62K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- May 21
- 2026 · v5.7.5
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About Chess Middlegame IV
Chess Middlegame IV course composed by GM Alexander Kalinin is aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section. This course includes 560 teaching examples and 530 exercises for 1800-2400 ELO: Ruy Lopez, two Knights' defense, French defense, Sicilian defense, Caro-Kann defense, King's indian defense, Nimzo-indian defense, English opening etc.
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. Ruy Lopez
1.1. Ruy Lopez
1.2. Jaenisch gambit
1.3. Arkhangelsk variation
2. Two Knights game
2.1. Two Knights game
2.2. 4. Ng5
2.3. 4. d4
3. French defense
3.1. French defense
3.2. Nimzowitch variation 3. e5
3.3. Classic variation 3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Sicilian defense. Richter-Rauser Variation
4.1. Sicilian defense. Richter-Rauser variation
4.2. 6... e6 7. Qd2 Be7
4.3. 7... h6
4.4. 7... a6
5. Caro-Kann defense. Advance variation 3. e5
6. King's Indian defense
6.1. King's indian defense
6.2. Saemisch system
6.3. Classical system
6.4. Fianchetto variation
6.5. Averbakh system
7. Nimzo-Indian defense. Rubinstein system
7.1. Nimzo-indian defense. Rubinstein system
7.2. 4... b6
7.3. 4... c5
7.4. 4... O-O
8. Slav defense
8.1. Slav defense
8.2. 4... dxc4
8.3. Chebanenko variation 4... a7-a6
9. Tartakower-Makagonov-Bondarevsky (TMB) system
10. English opening
10.1. English opening
10.2. 4... e5 5. Nb5 d5 6. cxd5 Bc5
10.3. 4... e6 5. g3 d5 6. Bg2 e5 7. Nf3 d4
11. Hanham variation against 1. d4
11.1. Hanham variation against 1. d4
11.2. Development the bishop on e2
11.3. Development the bishop on g2
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. Ruy Lopez
1.1. Ruy Lopez
1.2. Jaenisch gambit
1.3. Arkhangelsk variation
2. Two Knights game
2.1. Two Knights game
2.2. 4. Ng5
2.3. 4. d4
3. French defense
3.1. French defense
3.2. Nimzowitch variation 3. e5
3.3. Classic variation 3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Sicilian defense. Richter-Rauser Variation
4.1. Sicilian defense. Richter-Rauser variation
4.2. 6... e6 7. Qd2 Be7
4.3. 7... h6
4.4. 7... a6
5. Caro-Kann defense. Advance variation 3. e5
6. King's Indian defense
6.1. King's indian defense
6.2. Saemisch system
6.3. Classical system
6.4. Fianchetto variation
6.5. Averbakh system
7. Nimzo-Indian defense. Rubinstein system
7.1. Nimzo-indian defense. Rubinstein system
7.2. 4... b6
7.3. 4... c5
7.4. 4... O-O
8. Slav defense
8.1. Slav defense
8.2. 4... dxc4
8.3. Chebanenko variation 4... a7-a6
9. Tartakower-Makagonov-Bondarevsky (TMB) system
10. English opening
10.1. English opening
10.2. 4... e5 5. Nb5 d5 6. cxd5 Bc5
10.3. 4... e6 5. g3 d5 6. Bg2 e5 7. Nf3 d4
11. Hanham variation against 1. d4
11.1. Hanham variation against 1. d4
11.2. Development the bishop on e2
11.3. Development the bishop on g2
What’s new
Version 5.7.5 · Updated May 21, 2026
* 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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