Raul Capablanca Chess Champion

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About this game

640 deeply annotated games played by the 3rd World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca. 250 most interesting and instructive positions from his games in an additional program "Play as Capablanca".

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.

The program also contains 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.

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
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ 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. Jose Raul Capablanca
1.1. 1901
1.2. 1902-1906
1.3. 1906
1.4. 1909
1.5. 1910
1.6. 1911
1.7. 1912
1.8. 1913
1.9. 1913-1914
1.10. 1914
1.11. 1915
1.12. 1916
1.13. 1918
1.14. 1919
1.15. 1921
1.16. 1922
1.17. 1924
1.18. 1925
1.19. 1926
1.20. 1927
1.21. 1928
1.22. 1929
1.23. 1929-1930
1.24. 1930-1931
1.25. 1931
1.26. 1934-1935
1.27. 1935
1.28. 1936
1.29. 1937
1.30. 1938
1.31. 1939
2. Attack on the king
3. Positional play
3.1. Creating and exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's camp
3.2. Improving one's pieces' positions. Planning
3.3. Fighting for an initiative
3.4. Pawn advance. Opening up the files
3.5. Exploiting bad position of the opponent's pieces
4. Skill of exchange
5. Combinations and tactical blows
6. Playing an endgame
7. Converting an advantage in material and/or position into a win
8. Skill of defense

Ratings and reviews

Great learning experience. App let's you try and solve before giving you the correct move. Very instructive.

Has helped me understand devious plots ... to see things in their real perspective, to read between the lines.

very nice , instructive app. A lot of improvement in chess skill is possible through this app.

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