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Mikhail Tal. Chess Champion – Puzzle Game Review
Mikhail Tal. Chess Champion is a Puzzle/Board/Education game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 23rd September 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 34+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mikhail Tal. Chess Champion Stand Out
About 2600 games played by the legendary World Champion. And about 260 exercises in which you should play like Tal.
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:
- Attack on the king
1.1. Attack on the uncastled king
1.2. Both opponents castled to the same side
1.3. Positions with opposite side castling - Correct intuitive sacrifices
- Tactical blows
- Strategical methods
- Endgame technique
- Tal
6.1. 1949-1959
6.2. 1960-1964
6.3. 1965-1969
6.4. 1970-1974
6.5. 1975-1979
6.6. 1980-1984
6.7. 1985-1992
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mikhail Tal. Chess Champion is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd 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
Mikhail Tal. Chess Champion is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mikhail Tal. Chess Champion 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:
Only recently have we received our new phone! Much to our delight we started to search apps for chess! Being somewhat of a recluse, your offerings are helping us get our old, 'chess head' back in operation! There are no limits as to your wonderful 'product's' help with our redevelopment! Thank you for the access needed, to keep our mind sharp and outlook, optimistic! Gratefully Yours, sk7499.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 49.80 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: 22nd January 2018 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC