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Chess Strategy for Beginners – Board Game Review
Chess Strategy for Beginners is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 11th June 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 129+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess Strategy for Beginners Stand Out
This course is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength.
This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing a material or positional advantage. This program includes 55 lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples and exercises.
This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!
This course is in the series Chess King Learn, which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, 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
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
- Utilizing a decisive material advantage
1.1. Mating with major pieces
1.2. Mating with a rook
1.3. Mating with a queen
1.4. Mating with two bishops
1.5. Mating with bishop and knight (king is on the edge)
1.6. Mating with bishop and knight (king is in the center)
1.7. Mating with two knights
1.8. Different kinds of large material advantage
1.9. How to solve chess problems - The three stages of a chess game
2.1. How to play in the opening
2.2. Quick mobilization of forces
2.3. Fighting for the center
2.4. Harmonius pawn structure
2.5. What to do after the opening?
2.6. About endgame
2.7. Basic endgame rules - Basic pawn endings
3.1. The rule of the square
3.2. More about the rule of the square
3.3. The king helps the pawn
3.4. Opposition
3.5. The key squares - The fundamentals of chess tactics
4.1. Tactical methods
4.2. Combination and its components
4.3. Double attack
4.4. Knight and pawn forks
4.5. Exploiting a pin
4.6. How to fight against pins
4.7. Discovered attack
4.8. Discovered check
4.9. "Mill"
4.10. Double check
4.11. Decoy
4.12. Blocking
4.13. Smothered mate
4.14. Distraction
4.15. Weakness of the back rank
4.16. Square clearance
4.17. Line clearance
4.18. Annihilation of defense
4.19. Interception
4.20. Intermediate blow
4.21. Intermediate check
4.22. Play for a stalemate - Utilizing a material or positional advantage
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess Strategy for Beginners is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th January 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• App is updated for iPhone X
• New home screen
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Chess Strategy for Beginners is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess Strategy for Beginners on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Simple but very thoughtful and useable strategies that can be incorporated into actual games.
Slowly, we are learning! Its a good app. Go ahead and try it. No ad problems either.
Instruction has us thinking about chess in new ways. Excellent tutor.
Excellent vast depth and ease of use.
We cant believe Im learning chess, thanks to this app. Make more of these, like advanced tactics. We cant wait to learn the game of chess, so please help us! -Sebastian Caso Rodriguez, User of Chess king apps.
Absolutely fantastic chess training tool. Tactics are the best and show multiple variations to you.
Sometimes it says "mate in two", but it is a mate in three. Then if you make a mistake you would many times have to exit the program to be able to try again.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 44.08 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RO, RU, ES, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 15th January 2018 | Genre: Board, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC