Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600)

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4.8
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About this game

A fundamental course on chess tactics for Beginners. The course contains 150 teaching examples and 1500 new exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge. The exercises are classified according to more than 30 tactical methods and motifs.

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. Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600)
1.1. Opening the lines
1.2. Clearing important squares
1.3. Clearing the lines
1.4. Decoy
1.5. Decoying to Knight forks
1.6. Blocking
1.7. Distraction
1.8. Distracting pieces from defending the back rank
1.9. Interception
1.10. Discovered attack
1.11. Double check
1.12. Exploiting a pin
1.13. Mill
2. Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) - practice
2.1. Opening the d- and e- files
2.2. Opening the c- and f- files
2.3. Opening the b- and g- files
2.4. Opening the a- and h- files
2.5. Opening files
2.6. Opening diagonals
2.7. Clearing ranks
2.8. Clearing diagonals
2.9. Clearing important squares
2.10. Clearing files
2.11. Decoying to pins
2.12. Decoying the king into a mating net
2.13. Decoying to attack lines
2.14. Decoying to Knight forks
2.15. Decoying to attacks by opening lines
2.16. Decoying to attacks by retreating pieces
2.17. Decoying to Queen forks
2.18. Distracting pieces from defending important lines
2.19. Distracting pieces from defending the back rank
2.20. Distracting pieces from defending other pieces
2.21. Distracting pawns
2.22. Distracting pieces from protecting important squares
2.23. Distracting pinning pieces
2.24. Intercepting a piece defending another piece
2.25. Intercepting a piece protecting from checkmate
2.26. Unblocking by decoy
2.27. Discovered attack
2.28. Using discovered attacks when attacking the King
2.29. X-ray
2.30. Mill
Updated on
Jul 5, 2023

Data safety

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This app may share these data types with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity, and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
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Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.7
1.54K reviews
A “Nugs”
April 13, 2021
I wish I could give 4.5 stars Chess King apps are always high quality but most of them have two noticeable flaws (sometimes they matter, sometimes not) 1) There are no explanations on the puzzle solutions 2) Puzzles with multiple lines you can only "analyze" the last one after you complete it. If you don't understand the first line opponent played you'd better have an amazing memory or be taking notes. Other than that, amazing and high quality app. I've purchased about 10 of them and counting!
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Stanley Derochea
December 10, 2020
I'm a beginner chess player with some experience over 30 years ago. The problems are great. My only issue is some of the problems are not correct, mate in 2 but there was more than one way to get mate in 2 but it wouldn't let me choose anything other than what it thought. I even had 1 problem that was mate in 2 but there was mate in 1. I'm gonna keep playing because this app will still make me a much better chess player
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Damodaran V T
March 10, 2024
First, let it be said that this is one of the best chess apps. The "play against machine" feature is easily the best. I wonder what would happen if somebody played with this kind of precision. I would have given this 5 stars if only there was a way to get explanations. Some answers were completely unintelligible. Some automated moves killed any possibility of variation. But still let it be said that this is a very good app and remember, it is free. Wish the developers would continue development.
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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