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Chess Tactics in Open games – Board Game Review
Chess Tactics in Open games is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 31st March 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 47+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess Tactics in Open games Stand Out
This chess course is aimed at the club and intermediate players and presents the theory and playing hooks in Open Games, appearing after moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4. The course presents the overview of the actual variants and 630 exercises for solve.
This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), 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:
- Open games
1.1. Evans gambit
1.2. Italian game
1.3. Two knights - Practic in open openings
2.1. Italian game
2.2. Evans game
2.3. Two Knights
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess Tactics in Open games is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd 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 Tactics in Open games is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess Tactics in Open games 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:
Es una aplicacin bastante completa, los retos que deben resolverse, estn analizados exhaustivamente, hasta las jugadas dbiles o malas son verificadas demostrando el error. La recomiendo comprar completa. Es una lstima que por el asedio de las medidas econmicas del gobierno de Trump no podamos comprarla en Venezuela.
Even after purchasing full app we were unable to access the locked portion of study material on our we-pad.
The Theory for these openings has not been updated in awhile.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 43.18 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 2nd February 2018 | Genre: Board, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC