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Manual of Chess Combinations – Puzzle Game Review
Manual of Chess Combinations is a Puzzle/Board/Education game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 6th September 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 56+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Manual of Chess Combinations Stand Out
The material used in the program is based on a textbook by a renowned chess trainer Sergey Ivashchenko – Manual of Chess Combinations vol 2.
You have to find the most important moves. Once you're solving a problem and proposing a wrong move, the program helps you with various visual hints (such as arrows showing key lines of attack), and eventually shows the piece which is to move.
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:
- Mating combinations
- Pinning combinations
- Distraction
- Decoying
- Damming
- Blockade
- Annihilation of defence
- Discovered attack
- Clearing the space
- Opening of file (rank, diagonal)
- The double attack
- X-ray attack
- Demolition of pawn structure
- Conjunction of tactical methods
- Using a passed pawn
- Maneuvers
- Exchange
- Theoretical positions
- Studies
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Manual of Chess Combinations 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
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Manual of Chess Combinations is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Manual of Chess Combinations 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:
We Connor see the letters in our review.
Good application, worth every $$. We are teaching our kids with this application.
Should lead to over the board improvement. Functions well.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 42.39 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: 2nd February 2018 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC