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Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) – Puzzle Game Review
Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) is a Puzzle/Board/Education game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 13th June 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 231+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) Stand Out
A fundamental course on chess tactics for Beginners. The course contains 150 teaching examples and 1500 new exercises useful for consolidation of acquired knowledge. The exercises are classified according to more than 30 tactical methods and motifs.
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:
- Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600)
1.1. Opening the lines
1.2. Clearing important squares
1.3. Clearing the lines
1.4. Decoy
1.5. Decoying to Knight forks
1.6. Blocking
1.7. Distraction
1.8. Distracting pieces from defending the back rank
1.9. Interception
1.10. Discovered attack
1.11. Double check
1.12. Exploiting a pin
1.13. Mill - Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) – practice
2.1. Opening the d- and e- files
2.2. Opening the c- and f- files
2.3. Opening the b- and g- files
2.4. Opening the a- and h- files
2.5. Opening files
2.6. Opening diagonals
2.7. Clearing ranks
2.8. Clearing diagonals
2.9. Clearing important squares
2.10. Clearing files
2.11. Decoying to pins
2.12. Decoying the king into a mating net
2.13. Decoying to attack lines
2.14. Decoying to Knight forks
2.15. Decoying to attacks by opening lines
2.16. Decoying to attacks by retreating pieces
2.17. Decoying to Queen forks
2.18. Distracting pieces from defending important lines
2.19. Distracting pieces from defending the back rank
2.20. Distracting pieces from defending other pieces
2.21. Distracting pawns
2.22. Distracting pieces from protecting important squares
2.23. Distracting pinning pieces
2.24. Intercepting a piece defending another piece
2.25. Intercepting a piece protecting from checkmate
2.26. Unblocking by decoy
2.27. Discovered attack
2.28. Using discovered attacks when attacking the King
2.29. X-ray
2.30. Mill
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) 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 Tactics Art (1400-1600) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) 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:
After going through about half the contents of this app, so many things suddenly started to click. They give you a basic conceptual tactic and take you through many variations/examples of that tactic until it solidifies. Our online rating, which has been stagnant for about a year, has gone up 200 points after engaging in the puzzles provided by this app (and Ive only had this app for less than a couple of weeks!) our Puzzle Rush score on Chess.com has also shot up from an average of 12 to a 19-21 average. We highly suggest this tactics trainer.
Trying to purchase upgrade only sends you to a window that says "Loading" for ten minutes.
Ive played through multiple tactical and strategy apps for chess, but this is by far the best. Great app.
We really am impressed by this company. They seem to have chess problems for every ability. The package has more than 1000 problems and even if they seem on the easy side, some themes were new to us while others bear repeating until they're automatic. The amount of problems gives this effect as you see the same theme over and over again. Then on to the next one. Highly recommended.
Very helpful for all levels of chess playing.
CT-Arts is the greatest set of chess tactics problem ever assembled. Now it's available on iPhone. If you want to increase your chess rating this is the single most effective tool to do that!! Very instructive. Really AMAZING.
We're very impressed with this app. The approach is systematic, there is a good blend of theory and practice. The animations and touch options are superb. Five stars hands down.
While the original is a classic, this version for beginners is an excellent addition to the catalog. Great product. Nothing compares on iOS.
After reaching chapter eight and discovering about 12 mistakes, we decided to give up on this App.The problem is some of the puzzles seem to be based on a particular moment of a game when a player got lucky and their opponent blundered,plus traps,what we like to call "hope chess",You hope your opponent takes the bait… You can not base puzzles on traps! There must be precise answers. To a chess nut,there is nothing worse than loosing faith in a chess puzzle book or program because in the back of your mind you're wondering if your skills are weakening or you're wasting your time because the solution to the puzzle is wrong. Sadly,even the App's own engine refutes the answers.
Great app! Can't wait for CT-ART 4 to show up.
Hope to see more titles from this company. Chess Art 4 and 5 would be great as well. All their apps are great for chess improvement.
Phenomenal chess trainer. CTArt has everything you need.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 43.49 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RO, RU, ES, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 16th January 2018 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC