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Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 – Board Game Review
Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 7th September 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 27+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 Stand Out
This is a course for intermediate players based on a textbook by a distinguished Russian chess trainer Victor Golenishchev. The source material is supplemented with examples of play by lead chess players from the latest major contests and is organized in chess lessons. The course contains 34 themes, including theoretical material and practical exercises. The theoretical part includes more than 290 examples of play. The practical part includes more than 750 exercises of varying difficulty.
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:
- Preface
- Solving combinations competition
- Blitz competition
- Solving problems competition
- Solving study competition
- Training the technique of calculation
- Basics of strategy
7.1. Pawn majority on one of the flanks
7.2. Pawn chain
7.3. A qualitative pawn majority
7.4. Restriction of the mobility and blockade
7.5. A pawn pair "c3+d4" on the semi-opened files
7.6. An isolated pawn in the center of the board
7.7. Hanging pawns
7.8. Carlsbad structure
7.9. Closed center
7.10. Compensation for a pawn - Endings
8.1. A bishop against a knight
8.2. A bishop against the pawns
8.3. The bishops of the same color
8.4. The bishops of opposite color
8.5. A knight against the pawns
8.6. The knight endings
8.7. A rook against the pawns
8.8. The rook endings
8.9. A rook against a minor piece
8.10. The queen endings
8.11. A queen versus a rook
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th 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
• 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 Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol 2 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
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 43.88 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, IT, PT, RO, RU, ES, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 16th January 2018 | Genre: Board, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC