Chess King - Learn to Play

Chess King

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About this game

Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/) is a unique collection of chess education courses. It includes 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 program, 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 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.

Some courses contain 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.

App features:
♔ 100+ courses in one app. Choose the most suitable one!
♔ Chess learning. Hints are shown in case of errors
♔ High quality puzzles, all double-checked for correctness
♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
♔ Refutations are played for typical mistaken moves
♔ Computer analysis is available for any position
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Chess tasks for kids
♔ Chess analysis & opening tree
♔ Choose your board theme and 2D chess pieces
♔ ELO rating history is saved
♔ Test mode with flexible settings
♔ Bookmarks for favorite exercises
♔ Tablets support
♔ Full offline support
♔ Chess King account linking is available for simultaneous learning from any device on Android, iOS, macOS and Web

Each course includes a free part, in which you can test the program and exercises. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before purchasing a full version. Each course should be bought separately, but you can buy a subscription which gives you an access to all courses for a limited time.

You can study the following courses in the app:
♔ Learn Chess: From Beginner to Club Player
♔ Chess Strategy & Tactics
♔ Chess Tactics Art (1400-1800 ELO)
♔ Bobby Fischer
♔ Manual of Chess Combinations
♔ Chess Tactics for Beginners
♔ Advanced Defense (Chess Puzzles)
♔ Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
♔ Total Chess Endgames (1600-2400 ELO)
♔ CT-ART. Chess Mate Theory
♔ Chess Middlegame
♔ CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics 1200-2400 ELO)
♔ Mate in 1, 2, 3-4
♔ Elementary Chess Tactics
♔ Chess Opening Blunders
♔ Chess Endings for Beginners
♔ Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)
♔ Chess Endgame Studies
♔ Capturing Pieces
♔ Sergey Karjakin - Elite Chess Player
♔ Chess Tactics in Sicilian Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in French Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Caro-Kann Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Grünfeld Defense
♔ Chess School for Beginners
♔ Chess Tactics in Scandinavian Defense
♔ Mikhail Tal
♔ Simple Defense
♔ Magnus Carlsen - Chess Champion
♔ Chess Tactics in King's Indian Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Open Games
♔ Chess Tactics in Slav Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Volga Gambit
♔ Garry Kasparov
♔ Viswanathan Anand
♔ Vladimir Kramnik
♔ Alexander Alekhine
♔ Mikhail Botvinnik
♔ Emanuel Lasker
♔ Jose Raul Capablanca
♔ Encyclopedia Chess Combinations Informant
♔ Wilhelm Steinitz
♔ Universal Chess Opening: 1. d4 2. Nf3 3. e3
♔ Manual of Chess Strategy
♔ Chess: A Positional Opening Repertoire
♔ Chess: An Aggressive Opening Repertoire

Ratings and reviews

Awesome app for learning all things chess! Even got the yearly sub, no regrets! The app has a bug or two, but nothing big. The only thing I have a hard time with is the order the automation goes through the lines. I know it's just reading the theory section, but it goes through all the "or, and, but not" lines before showing you the actual main line. I know it would mean having to create separate automation and theory annotations for each lesson, but it would be so much easier to follow IMHO!!!

The app is divided between theory (reading) and practice (solving board positions) but they're separate. It's not always clear what the relationship is. One puzzle in practice asks me to "find the best continuance". That term has not been explained. There's no link to the 'theory' section that is relevant to this exercise, or even a glossary. If you make a wrong move, arrows and shapes of many colors appear, but aren't explained. I find the teaching style confusing and largely unhelpful.

A very good chess app for learning the game and playing against the engine. The amount of courses available is impressive. Anyone can find a course or courses to improve their game. I recommend it highly. Puzzles reinforce the lessons being highlighted. Check it out. I did not upgrade to the paid version; but there is much available free content. The upgrade cost is quite reasonable if one would like it.

What’s new

* Try the Maximum subscription with the 50% discount for the new subscribers!
* Added play blocks in the University. You can play with engine or use opening training in university curricula
* Try "Chess in School" curriculum to test these features or create your own curricula with play blocks
* Added "Chess Endgames" curriculum to study endgames in level-based form
* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!
* Various fixes and improvements