The legendary chess tactics course is now available on Android for players with an ELO rating between 1200 and 2400! Voted multiple times by chess experts as the best chess training program in the world, this course is based on the bestselling book "Combination Motifs" by renowned trainer Grandmaster Maxim Blokh. The Android version includes 2,200 basic exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises, divided into 50 topics. Each position has been meticulously hand-picked over 20 years of training practice and arranged in a sequence that maximizes learning efficiency.
A unique feature of this course is the special hint accompanying each position—a 5x5 mini-position designed to encapsulate the essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example. This course is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers an unparalleled chess teaching method. The series includes courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for players from beginners to professionals.
With this course, you can enhance your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply them in practice. The program acts as a coach, providing tasks to solve and assisting when you're stuck. It offers hints, explanations, and even shows striking refutations of common mistakes.
Advantages of the program include high-quality, double-checked examples; the requirement to enter all key moves as instructed; varying levels of task complexity; diverse goals to achieve within the problems; hints for errors; refutations for typical mistaken moves; a structured table of contents; monitoring of ELO rating changes during the learning process; a test mode with flexible settings; the ability to bookmark favorite exercises; adaptation to larger tablet screens; no need for an internet connection; and the option to link the app to a free Chess King account to solve one course across multiple devices on Android, iOS, and the web simultaneously.
The course includes a free section where you can test the program. Lessons in the free version are fully functional, allowing you to experience the application in real-world conditions before unlocking the following topics:
Themes
- Annihilation of defense
- Distraction
- Decoy
- Discovered attack
- Opening of a file
- Clearance
- X-ray attack
- Interception
- Blocking, encirclement
- Destruction of the pawn shelter
- Pawn promotion
- Intermediate move, winning of a tempo
- Play for a stalemate
- Restricting of material
- Pursuit
- Conjunction of tactical methods
- Chess Tactics Art for Advanced
Difficulty
- Level 10
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- Level 40
- Level 50
- Level 60
- Level 70
- Level 80
- Level 90
- Level 100
