Chess School for Beginners 4+
Chess Training
Chess King
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Download our "Chess King Learn" app and study all courses in the same app.
This friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 2 main sections: Chess rules and Playing.
500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student.
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:
1. Introduction
1.1. Chess board
1.2. Chess pieces
1.3. Starting position
2. Pieces' moves
2.1. Rook
2.2. Bishop
2.3. Queen
2.4. Knight
2.5. King
2.6. Pawn
3. Capture
4. Pawn promotion
5. The relative value of the pieces
6. Castling
7. The role of the king, Check and mate
7.1. Check and mate
7.2. Mate
7.3. Mate in one move
7.4. Stalemate
7.5. Perpetual check
8. Notation (How to read moves)
9. Elementary capture
9.1. Winning a knight
9.2. Winning a bishop
9.3. Winning a rook
9.4. Winning a queen
9.5. Win a piece
10. Simple defense
10.1. Retreat
10.2. Defending with another piece
10.3. Taking an attacking piece
10.4. Interception
10.5. Defending from mate
11. Chess skills development
12. The role of the king. Continuation
12.1. Mate in 1
12.2. Mate in 2
12.3. Discovered check
12.4. Double check
12.5. Perpetual check
12.6. Stalemate
13. King and queen against a king
14. King and rook against a king
15. King and minor piece or a pawn against a king
16. Etiquette during a game
What’s New
Version 1.2
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
Ratings and Reviews
Great way to self tutor as a beginner
This app allows my to practice whenever I have a little time. I can work on areas that mind is not skilled for a real chess match- one day. I’m not ready yet, but one day!
Nice but some significant flaws
I have a rudimentary grasp of chess and have been having fun learning with this app. The main complaint I have is that in the lessons, it’s not always apparent why a “correct” move is correct, at least for a beginner. It would be really helpful if there were notes in the tests explaining why a move is good vs. bad, etc. For instance, in one situation you are trying to mate in one move, and the “correct” move does not seem to be mate at all because the king could capture the attacking piece without remaining in or putting itself in check. An explanation would really help in this and many other cases.
The app works well, and the “Theory” section is comprehensive and detailed. I’d recommend starting there if you’re new to the game. There’s not much direction as to what to do when you first open the app. It would be much improved if the clunky Home Screen were more directive. But other than that, it’s a good app for learning/improving your game.
Chess for beginners
I know absolutely nothing about chess and hoped this app would teach me something. I have to agree that I did learn more than I knew but the feedback is not on the screen long enough to read and I would like comments on the mistakes I make.
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Information
- Seller
- CHESSQUEEN INC
- Size
- 67.4 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 Chess King
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Full course $7.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.