Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles)

Chess King

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About this game

The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your device in solving problems from practical games. If you a beginner but already know how to mate in 1 move, you have to move on and learn how to attack a king and give mate in 2 moves! This course includes 19 000 exercises from masters games. In every exercise you will have to find a best continuation for an attack against the king. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. A great number of exercises makes the course an excellent tool for quick training both beginners and club players.

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.

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
♔ 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. King + queen
2. King + rook
3. King + bishop
4. King + knight
5. King + pawn
6. Queen
7. Queen + rook
8. Queen + bishop
9. Queen + knight
10. Queen + pawn
11. Rook
12. Rook + bishop
13. Rook + knight
14. Rook + pawn
15. Bishop
16. Bishop + knight
17. Bishop + pawn
18. Knight
19. Knight + pawn
20. Pawn
21. Any piece checkmates

Ratings and reviews

I enjoy these types of puzzles, but found this app lacking: 1) The first 300 puzzles are all but identical. Pin king with your King, finish with a lateral from your queen. After 200, I realized I can skip levels. 2) It's too quick to tell me my first move is bad. Let it play out. If the king has escaped me after 2 moves, I can almost always see why. 3) In later puzzles, there are often multiple paths to victory (triple-checked). But I am forced to choose the master's chosen path, or it's a fail.

Training tactical motifs allows me to recognize the patterns to spot and work with possible tactics ( like an alarm bell, noticing undefended pieces exposed king, overloaded and pinned pieces etc etc) in my games. BUT doing mate in x puzzles improves my analysis accuracy, analysis tree organization and efficiency. This is because we know the aim and can thus isolate the analysis of variations. With tactical motifs, half of our energy is devoted to recognizing the conditions for said tactic.

This game is good but not smooth. I am bored by moving pieces again and again picking them and putting on the right square. You should keep an option of hint. When ever we try and think of proper answer you just show the answer. Please do something.

What's new

* Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
* Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
* Added daily goal for puzzles - chose how many exercise you need to keep your skills in shape.
* Added daily streak - how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
* Various fixes and improvements