Elementary Chess Tactics 1

Chess King

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About this game

If you are a beginner, it is necessary for you to study simple tactical methods and learn how to employ them! This course includes more than 4300 exercises for beginners on the following tactical methods: Fork, pin, double check, discovered check, annihilation of the opponent's king defense, exploiting a back (1st) rank weakness. If you are a beginner or a club player, this is the program for you! After going through this course you will never miss an elementary combination in a practical game of your own and will be able to improve the quality of your play considerably.

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. The fork
2. Pin or skewer
3. Double check
4. Discovered check
5. Annihilation of defense of a king
6. Annihilation of the back rank defense

Ratings and reviews

It is really a great app, My daughter loves it. She was using some other app which didn't satisfy her according to level. This app gives her a progressive improvement. She is a fan of capturing course by chess king. Thank you.

The app doesn't keep track of the right number of exercises made. And that's very annoying, makes you doubt what you've already completed or not. Other than that, great app with a great set of tactics exercises.

This app is superb. I would use an introductory text like Bain's Chess Tactics For students or YouTube explanations on basic tactics. When i bought this app, I was 1100 online. Now I'm 1500 online. On first glance, i thought it was no use to me/ too easy because it was arranged in basic patterns in order ( for example pawn forks then bishop forks then knight forks then rook forks etc). But when i selected randomized order hardest 1000 positions, it really tested me and filled the knowledge gaps

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