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Chess: From Beginner to Club – Puzzle Game Review
Chess: From Beginner to Club is a Puzzle/Board/Education game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 25th April 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 355+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess: From Beginner to Club Stand Out
This teaching program is a kind of guide. It will introduce you to the rules and laws of chess and let you work your way of improvement from the level of Beginner to the one of Club Player.
In the course 100 chess topics are considered including rules of chess game; methods of playing in opening, middle game and ending; combinational techniques and basic elements of strategy. All in all, the course contains 500 teaching examples and 700 exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge.
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:
- Your first move
1.1. The board
1.2. The simplest endings
1.3. Some basic concepts
1.4. How to start a game
1.5. The Opening
1.6. Middlegame
1.7. Endgame
1.8. Chess composition
1.9. Short games and traps
1.10. History of chess
1.11. How to use mistakes
1.12. How would you play here - Chess: from beginner to club player
2.1. The board
2.2. The simplest endings
2.3. Some basic concepts
2.4. Short games and traps
2.5. Middlegame
2.6. Endgame
2.7. Chess composition
2.8. How to use mistakes
2.9. How would you play here
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess: From Beginner to Club is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th February 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: From Beginner to Club is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess: From Beginner to Club 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:
These are like real game problems. You are not sure what type of advantage you might get in the situation that is presented. This gives you practice that you would get in crucial situations in a game.
Very helpful for ourselves as a beginner.
Aprend y aumente mi nivel great.
This app is helpful at what its supposed to do.
Awesome situational assessments and feedback. A great way to improve your game quickly.
First let us say we are about 1/3 of the way thru this app. This app has improved our game fromwood pusher to seeing tactical situations and we expect to continue to improve. We will definitely continue to buy more advanced apps as we improve. However; first of all it needs some text explaining the procedures, charts and numbers though after a week we began to figure it out. (Admittedly Im a senior). Second, when doing combination practices it has several sections oftypes that werent covered in the theory section. So it is frustrating trying to figure out why a move is marked as wrong because it doesnt match what the A.we. Is looking for. Still we would recommend this app for beginners and early intermediates looking to improve their game.
A little hard to follow even after reading entire beginning section. There should be a brief demo of the interface and the steps required.
This app is crazy confusing, has no guide on how to use it, and it makes you dislike chess. We wish we never paid for it.
Great beginner training tool. It gets quite challenging! We loved it so much, we bought the full course.
We have half a dozen chess apps and this one is our favorite. It does a great job explaining the fundamentals of chess: rules, tactics, basic openings and endgame play. The interface is clean and easy to use. The puzzles reinforce the information presented are are quite challenging. The app gives you an elo score based on how your ability to solve the puzzles. Highly recommended.
Great learning tool for becoming a better chess player. The format and layout is well-planned.
Great fun learning chess. Lots of positions to teach us what works. Great lessons to help us stay out of a stalemate position.
We are 1800 USCF and we love the tactics trainer included. It show refutations to errors. The whole thing is first class. We are not sure we agree it's only for low rated players. Excellent.
We love that it's so easy to go back and forth between variations , the detailed explanations and refutations of moves. This collection of puzzles and theory reads like a book. You do really feel you're going through a curriculum of tactics and what you should know in chess before moving to the next level (we.e. Are those 1700 elo problems good for our level or harder /easier ? ) we think this collection used to be called CT-Art . It had an UGLY interface called Peshka that required you to be constantly online to access a server of problems you own. In fact there is another app by Chess King that is called CT-ART, with a different set of tactics. Quite a few other apps like one dedicated to the Sicilian or French . A beautiful easy interface that just makes you want to read more and more. Very , very highly recommended.
It has lots of chess knowledge and it shows refutations to errors. If you have not bought the PC version the price is reasonable. We really expected that after spending a large sum for the PC version the ios version would be free. We really detest inapp purchasing. We really consider it bait and switch. Again though, we think the price is probably fair if more inapp does not get added in the future. Once you buy a full version enhancement should be free. It would be a 5 star if documentation existed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 45.05 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 5th February 2018 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC