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Elementary Chess Tactics II – Board Game Review
Elementary Chess Tactics II is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 24th September 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 49+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Elementary Chess Tactics II Stand Out
If you are a beginner, it is necessary for you to study simple tactical methods and learn how to employ them! This course includes more than 1800 exercises for beginners on the following tactical methods: 'annihilation of defense', 'decoy', 'interception' and 'distraction'.
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.
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:
- Annihilation of defence of a piece
1.1. Level 3
1.2. Level 4
1.3. Level 5
1.4. Level 6
1.5. Level 7
1.6. Level 8
1.7. Level 9
1.8. Level 10
1.9. Level 11
1.10. Level 12
1.11. Level 13
1.12. Level 14 - Annihilation of an important square defence
2.1. Level 7
2.2. Level 8
2.3. Level 9
2.4. Level 10
2.5. Level 11
2.6. Level 12
2.7. Level 13
2.8. Level 14
2.9. Level 15
2.10. Level 16
2.11. Level 17 - Decoy of a king to a mating net
3.1. Level 5
3.2. Level 6
3.3. Level 7
3.4. Level 8
3.5. Level 9
3.6. Level 10
3.7. Level 11
3.8. Level 12 - Decoy to a knight fork
4.1. Level 3
4.2. Level 4
4.3. Level 5
4.4. Level 6
4.5. Level 7
4.6. Level 8
4.7. Level 9
4.8. Level 10
4.9. Level 11
4.10. Level 12 - Intercepting a piece defending other piece
5.1. Level 3
5.2. Level 4
5.3. Level 5
5.4. Level 6
5.5. Level 7
5.6. Level 8
5.7. Level 9
5.8. Level 10
5.9. Level 11 - Distracting a piece defending other piece
6.1. Level 5
6.2. Level 6
6.3. Level 7
6.4. Level 8
6.5. Level 9
6.6. Level 10
6.7. Level 11
6.8. Level 12
6.9. Level 13
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Elementary Chess Tactics II 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
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Elementary Chess Tactics II is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Elementary Chess Tactics II 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:
Great app! We use these simple exercises to warm up and to really get those reoccurring patterns inside our brain. Chess king has done a great job with their apps.
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User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 41.77 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 5th February 2018 | Genre: Board, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC