Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles)

Chess King

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About this game

This course includes more than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves. You will have to use your fantasy and precise calculation in order to find a correct way of attacking the king. After going through this course you are sure to improve your skills and abilities considerably and will not miss an opportunity to employ a nice little combination in a practical game of your own. The program is intended both for club players and intermediate players. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels.

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

Great collection of problems, intuitive interface, and not too many adds in the free version. Decent price makes it worth removing the ads as well. Probably could be more flexible and helpful in analyzing different solutions, but if it would have to affect the simplicity and the price, I would not really worry about it.

The puzzles are good, but why can't I choose which ones to do? I prefer not to start with the simplest least interesting ones. What is the purpose of locking the more advanced puzzles and making the easy ones a prerequisite? I understand that some might benefit from doing these in sequence, but you don't know who fits this description and it can't possible matter to you if people do the puzzles in one order or another.

As someone who has played chess, but never studied it seriously, I love the puzzles. They are the right level of difficulty and I'm learning some new concepts by replaying them after my initial, bumbling, trial-and-error solve. The app is not beautiful, but that's OK, because it's also no nonsense.

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