Chess Tactics for Beginners

More than 1200 exercises quickly help beginners to form basic tactical vision

Chess Tactics for Beginners - Improve Your Game

"Chess Tactics for Beginners" is an interactive app featuring over 1200 exercises aimed at helping beginners develop essential tactical skills. Based on a bestseller by coach Sergey Ivashchenko, it provides structured training, hints, and insights to clarify mistakes. Users can solve tasks in a test mode, track their progress, and enjoy a seamless experience on multiple devices, all without needing an internet connection.
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Version: 3.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-26)
Creation date: 2015-10-22
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  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

This course is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko which became a sort of chess publishing sensation and sold over 200,000 copies. More than 1200 training exercises are intended for beginners. Elementary and simple tasks (1-, 2- and 3-way) are used as teaching material.

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. Mate in 1
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Mate in 1
2. Winning material
2.1. Gain a queen
2.2. Gain a rook
2.3. Gain a knight
2.4. Gain a bishop
3. Draw
4. Mate in 2
4.1. Double check
4.2. Queen checkmates
4.3. Rook checkmates
4.4. Knight checkmates
4.5. Bishop checkmates
4.6. Pawn checkmates
5. Sacrifice material
5.1. Queen sacrifice
5.2. Rook sacrifice
5.3. Bishop sacrifice
5.4. Knight sacrifice
6. How to proceed?

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
  • Offers a wide variety of puzzles for practice
  • Helps beginners improve awareness and tactical thinking
  • Provides hints and explanations for moves
  • Free version is accessible and not overly aggressive with ads
  • Allows replay of moves to learn from mistakes
Cons
  • Puzzles can vary widely in difficulty without clear progression
  • Some users report glitches and issues with app performance
  • Lack of detailed explanations for why certain moves are correct or incorrect
  • User interface can be confusing and not user-friendly
  • Rating system is perceived as unfair, with heavy deductions for mistakes
Most mentioned
  • Great for beginners
  • Wide variety of puzzles
  • Helpful hints and learning opportunities
  • Issues with difficulty progression
  • Confusing user interface
User reviews
As far as a training aid, it's great. It gives you a chance to do it. If you don't get the puzzle, it highlights what you should be looking at. If you still don't get it, it provides more insight and tells you that it might be a move, but it's not the one or you don't get sufficient material with the exchange. Anyway, it's good at working you through.
by Clinton Kardos, 2024-10-23

Yeah this is very nice it has hundrends of puzzles.
by AlexanderJamesPasaan, 2024-10-08

Starting will the beginnings. It is helping to identify the chematr tactic. It also gives me a sense of awareness of what I need to improve.
by Paula Poulafearh, 2024-09-26
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