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Chess Tactics for Beginners

This course is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko which became a sort of chess publishing sensation and sold over 200,000 copies. More than 1300 training exercises are intended for beginners, both children and adults. Elementary and simple tasks (1-, 2- and 3-way) are used as teaching material.
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This course is in the series Chess King Learn, which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, 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.

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
• 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

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. Mate in 1
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Mate in 1
2. Winning material
2.1. Gain a rook
2.2. Gain a knight
2.3. Gain a bishop
2.4. Gain a queen
3. Draw
4. Mate in 2
4.1. Double check
4.2. Queen checkmates
4.3. Rook checkmates
4.4. Knight checkmates
4.5. Bishop checkmates
4.6. Pawn checkmates
5. Sacrifice material
5.1. Queen sacrifice
5.2. Rook sacrifice
5.3. Bishop sacrifice
5.4. Knight sacrifice
6. Gain a piece
6.1. Gain a rook
6.2. Gain a knight
6.3. Gain a bishop
6.4. Gain a queen
7. How to proceed?

Reviews

Chew tactics
qszchsbsj

It helps me a lot so in games I can see more tactics and win more games


Very solid !
DanNSilverthorne

Well done and polished. Plenty of great material to work through. Looking forward to extending my training with the full course.


visuals and puzzles
Speranza1

Excellent use of visuals and puzzles to train the chess beginner in the best moves under tightly constrained conditions.


ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST APP
Gampapa3

This is the Mount Olympus of chess learning apps. Don't waste your money on anything else. This is so much better than anything else out there I just want to burst out laughing. The app itself is elegant and just beautiful. THE COURSES ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD FOR IPHONE OR PC FOR THAT MATTER. All other chess apps are pathetic in comparison. They have CT-Arts which is a classic. They have courses on openings, endgames, and middle games for beginner on up to ELO of 2400 level. If you love chess and have an iPhone you'll love these course!! Buy it!!!!!!


Perfect chess problem set
ganine

My favorite chess problem set of all time by Ivanchenko in a fantastic implementation on iOS. The problems are so well considered, progressive and deep they warrant repeated study. Matches the classic works Chess School 1a and 1b.


Good
Homayoun1234

Excellent app. The exercises start off easy, but there are plenty of challenging and interesting puzzles here as well. Highly recommended.


Great way to strengthen your chess vision
Milfordthelargebonedgorilla

Tactics is one of the single best ways to strengthen your chess vision and develop your ability to perceive "imbalances" per Silman. These are great studies that will only enhance your play.


More help
Mizyparkcity

There are lots of great features but I wish the tactics there would offer more obvious ways to know what you're trying to do. Instead of saying, "play for advantage" it would be so much more helpful for me if it said something like, "capture the rook in 3 moves." It would also be helpful if there were little notes about why a move is good or bad. Sometimes in tactic exercises the correct move will be to get your own queen captured, and as a novice I don't always understand why that's a good idea. Overall a very good app.


Excellent.
Patrick1db

Excellent. Well worth the purchase.


goog app
Masoud aftabi

very goog app!


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