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Chess School for Beginners – Board Game Review
Chess School for Beginners is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 4th January 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 643+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess School for Beginners Stand Out
This friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 2 main sections: Chess rules and Playing.
500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student.
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:
- Introduction
1.1. Chess board
1.2. Chess pieces
1.3. Starting position - Pieces' moves
2.1. Rook
2.2. Bishop
2.3. Queen
2.4. Knight
2.5. King
2.6. Pawn - Capture
- Pawn promotion
- The relative value of the pieces
- Castling
- The role of the king, Check and mate
7.1. Check and mate
7.2. Mate
7.3. Mate in one move
7.4. Stalemate
7.5. Perpetual check - Notation (How to read moves)
- Elementary capture
9.1. Winning a knight
9.2. Winning a bishop
9.3. Winning a rook
9.4. Winning a queen
9.5. Win a piece - Simple defense
10.1. Retreat
10.2. Defending with another piece
10.3. Taking an attacking piece
10.4. Interception
10.5. Defending from mate - Chess skills development
- The role of the king. Continuation
12.1. Mate in 1
12.2. Mate in 2
12.3. Discovered check
12.4. Double check
12.5. Perpetual check
12.6. Stalemate - King and queen against a king
- King and rook against a king
- King and minor piece or a pawn against a king
- Etiquette during a game
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess School for Beginners 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
• Animated playback of theory with sound
• Date of reading the theory
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Chess School for Beginners is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess School 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:
This app, breaks the various parts of the game into fun challenging exercises that are easier to learn build on.
This app allows our to practice whenever we have a little time. We can work on areas that mind is not skilled for a real chess match- one day. Im not ready yet, but one day.
Has lots of digestible learning info.
We know absolutely nothing about chess and hoped this app would teach us something. We have to agree that we did learn more than we knew but the feedback is not on the screen long enough to read and we would like comments on the mistakes we make.
We have a rudimentary grasp of chess and have been having fun learning with this app. The main complaint we have is that in the lessons, its not always apparent why a correct move is correct, at least for a beginner. It would be really helpful if there were notes in the tests explaining why a move is good vs. Bad, etc. For instance, in one situation you are trying to mate in one move, and the correct move does not seem to be mate at all because the king could capture the attacking piece without remaining in or putting itself in check. An explanation would really help in this and many other cases. The app works well, and the Theory section is comprehensive and detailed. Id recommend starting there if youre new to the game. Theres not much direction as to what to do when you first open the app. It would be much improved if the clunky Home Screen were more directive. But other than that, its a good app for learning/improving your game.
This is worst trainer it should not throw stupid solutions that when viewed make no sense at the end of the sequence.
No way to cancel subscription! BEWARE.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 64.32 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, IT, RO, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 5th February 2018 | Genre: Board, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC