CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics)

The legendary chess tactics course is now on Android! ELO rating: 1200-2400!

CT-ART 4.0 - Best Chess Tactics Training App

CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics) is a comprehensive chess training app featuring over 3,000 exercises based on the renowned 'Combination Motifs' book by GM Maxim Blokh. Tailored for players with ELO ratings between 1200 and 2400, it provides structured learning, hints, and tailored tasks to enhance tactical understanding and improve game performance. The app can be accessed offline and synced across devices, making it a versatile choice for chess enthusiasts seeking to elevate their skills.
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Version: 3.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-26)
Creation date: 2015-12-11
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  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

The legendary tactics course that has been voted more than once by chess experts as the best chess training program in the world. This version includes 2,200 basic exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises, divided into 50 topics. The course is based on the bestselling book Combination Motifs by a renowned trainer grandmaster Maxim Blokh. All positions have been hand-picked over the course of 20 years of training practice and come in the order that ensures most efficient learning. Each position comes with a special hint unique to this course – a 5x5 mini-position designed to convey the very essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example.

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. Themes
1.1. Annihilation of defense
1.2. Distraction
1.3. Decoy
1.4. Discovered attack
1.5. Opening of a file
1.6. Clearance
1.7. X-ray attack
1.8. Interception
1.9. Blocking, encirclement
1.10. Destruction of the pawn shelter
1.11. Pawn promotion
1.12. Intermediate move. winning of a tempo
1.13. Play for a stalemate
1.14. Restricting of material
1.15. Pursuit
1.16. Conjunction of tactical methods
1.17. Chess Tactics Art for Advanced
2. Difficulty
2.1. Level 10
2.2. Level 20
2.3. Level 30
2.4. Level 40
2.5. Level 50
2.6. Level 60
2.7. Level 70
2.8. Level 80
2.9. Level 90
2.10. Level 100

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Challenging and realistic puzzles that improve tactical skills.
  • Well-structured with exercises divided by difficulty and themes.
  • Provides a comprehensive learning experience with various scenarios.
  • Excellent user interface and usability.
  • Good in-app support and hints for understanding mistakes.
Cons
  • Lack of explanations for puzzle solutions, making understanding difficult.
  • Authentication issues reported after purchasing the full version.
  • Some discrepancies in puzzle difficulty and point system.
  • Inability to explore alternative moves freely within puzzles.
  • Navigation can be difficult when returning to previous puzzles or progress.
Most mentioned
  • Difficulty of puzzles
  • Structured learning experience
  • High-quality problems
  • Interface issues (navigation, authentication)
  • Need for better explanations on puzzle solutions
User reviews
Personally, I preferred CT-Art 3.0. Both this program, and 3.0 are based off the book "Combination Motifs" by Maxim Blokh. Recommend ordering the material herein in order of DIFFICULTY rather then by theme, same as studying from the book version this program is based on. Same as recommended in the book, what you do is complete a single difficulty level. Then go through them again and again until you can do them quickly and error free before proceeding to the next level.
by Thomas McCutcheon, 2024-12-02

Great app. I'd like a little more information when you fail, but the practice process is amazing :)
by juan rivero, 2024-10-19

App is much better than other websites which offer puzzles. Very structured and difficulty levels are also good @developers My full version is not available on my phone. I changed to a new phone (had purchased full version on my old phone) and logged in to the same Gmail account but it doesn't let me access the full version. However it understands that my rating was 2098 previously but doesn't let me access the full course.
by Soham Shirodkar, 2024-03-25
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