Chess Opening Blunders

Learn how to trap and how to avoid typical problems in more than 40 openings!

Chess Opening Blunders - Learn Chess Tactics

"Chess Opening Blunders" is an educational Android app designed to improve your chess gameplay by teaching you to recognize and avoid common opening mistakes. With over 1,250 exercises from practical games across more than 40 openings, this app acts as your personal chess coach, providing hints and explanations to enhance your tactical skills. Adapted for both beginners and experienced players, it works offline and allows multi-device access through a Chess King account.
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Version: 3.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-26)
Creation date: 2015-12-24
Permissions
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders – learn to play chess by learning the opening mistakes and traps that have been discovered over time. The program is designed for studying the blunders in more than 40 openings and contains over 1,250 instructive exercises of varying difficulty from practical games.

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. Rare variations
1.1. 1. g3, 1. b4 ...
1.2. 1. b3
1.3. 1. d4
1.4. 1. d4 Nf6
1.5. 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
2. Alekhine's defense
3. Benoni defense
4. Bird's opening
5. Bishop's opening
6. Blumenfeld counter-gambit
7. Bogo-Indian defense
8. Budapest gambit
9. Caro-Kann
10. Catalan system
11. Center gambit
12. Dutch defense
12.1. Dutch defense
12.2. Iljin-Genevsky system
12.3. Leningrad system
12.4. Staunton gambit
12.5. Stonewall variation
13. English opening
14. Evans gambit
15. Four knights' game
16. French defense
16.1. French defense
16.2. Classical variation
16.3. Tarrasch variation
16.4. Winawer variation
17. Grünfeld defense
18. Italian game & Hungarian defense
19. King's gambit
20. King's Indian defense
20.1. King's Indian defense
20.2. Classical variation
20.3. Fianchetto variation
20.4. Four pawns' attack
20.5. Saemisch variation
21. Latvian gambit
22. Nimzo-Indian defense
22.1. Nimzo-Indian defense
22.2. Leningrad variation
22.3. Rubinstein variation
22.4. Saemisch variation
23. Nimzowitsch defense
24. Old Indian defense
25. Philidor's defense
26. Pirc-Robatsch defense
27. Queen's gambit
27.1. Queen's gambit
27.2. Queen's gambit accepted
27.3. Albin counter-gambit
27.4. Cambridge-Springs variation
27.5. Exchange variation
27.6. Orthodox defense
27.7. Lasker defense
27.8. Tartakower defense
27.9. Ragozin system
27.10. Semi-Slav defense
27.11. Semi-Tarrasch defense
27.12. Slav defense
27.13. Tarrasch defense
27.14. Variation with 5. Bf4
28. Queen's indian defense
29. Queen's pawn game
30. Reti opening
31. Petroff's defense
32. Ruy Lopez
32.1. Ruy Lopez
32.2. Berlin defense
32.3. Bird's defense
32.4. Breyer variation
32.5. Chigorin defense
32.6. Classical defense
33. Scandinavian defense
34. Scotch gambit & Ponziani's opening
35. Scotch game
36. Sicilian defense
37. Three knights' game
38. Two knights' defense
39. Vienna game
40. Volga-Benko gambit

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
  • Presents puzzles that help players analyze and learn opening theory.
  • Allows replay from start and alternative variations.
  • Includes a feature to play against the computer from specific positions.
  • Tracks user progress through a rating system.
  • Offers a good interface for solving puzzles.
Cons
  • Lacks clear explanations and instructions for moves.
  • Some puzzles are poorly designed without proper guidance.
  • No undo button, which can lead to frustration when mistakes are made.
  • Depth of opening theory may be too advanced for beginners.
  • UI is criticized as being poor or difficult to navigate.
Most mentioned
  • No instructional material or explanations provided.
  • App primarily presents puzzles without guidance.
  • Depth of content is beyond average players' abilities.
  • Useful for returning/advanced players.
  • Frustration with interface design and usability.
User reviews
Good app , so this isn't really a criticism, but this app is for more advanced players in the middle or end game. Most of the combinations when playing for advantage are way beyond an average rated players ability. Most of it becomes guesswork. I decided to uninstall the app as these tournament moves are beyond my "for fun" rating. I'm not enjoying making constant mistakes with little hope of ever reaching this level of comprehension.
by Merlin Wizard, 2024-07-25

This app is pretty good. As a returning player who used to play many tournaments a year, this app is great for me to get back in mental shape. It is better than lichess puzzles as there are multiple lines in some positions annotated by real players.
by Rafael M. Rubio, 2024-05-11

This is way too deep opening theory to be called "opening blunders". The puzzles start well into middle game. Like the first puzzle of Alekhine's defence is at move 15. Thousands of variations lead to different levels of advantages this deep. But be sure to learn that one because you might run into it one time in your life if you're lucky.
by Steampunker X, 2024-04-25
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