Chess - 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

It's pretty awesome. I think most people using it could substantially improve their play. I think most would hit a wall in thier improvement without a chess coach though. But if used with a human coach, the modules go up to grandmaster level problems. The lowest level modules target rank beginners. There are modules $$ for every possible skill level.

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.

I am working my way through the the sections and really enjoying the app. Two issues: First, the User Interface takes a bit to figure out. It took me until half way through section 1 to figure out what all the arrows do. Maybe add a quick tutorial to explain the UI. Second issue; Section 2 (The Simplest Endings) seems out of sequence. 2.2 discusses the 3 phases of the game. 2.1 explains some of the endings. This seems out of order. Paid for full so hoping it is a minor oversight.

What's new

* Refreshed design, using the latest Android visual styles now.
* Updated daily goal values - you may set the goal for 2, 3 or 4 exercises.
* Fixed stability issues on Android 7
* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!
* Various fixes and improvements