Chess School for Beginners

Chess School for Beginners


Chess Training


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1.2for iPhone, iPad and more
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Feb 5, 2018
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About Chess School for Beginners

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
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.2

Last updated on Feb 5, 2018
Old Versions
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
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Version History
1.2
Feb 5, 2018
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
1.0.6
Aug 28, 2017
• The theory mode was considerably revised. Meet the animated playback with sound!
• Various fixes and improvements
1.0.4
Jun 19, 2017
Attention! You should have an internet connection on the first launch to verify your purchase!
• Added cloud sync option for statistics and bookmarks
• Added "Auto hints" option - you can use it to turn off automatic hints after wrong move attempts
• Added switching between exercises using swipe gestures
• Improved theory mode
• Added Tag (colored commentaries) option for bookmarks
• Various fixes and improvements
0.9.8
Feb 7, 2017
• Added auto switch to the next exercise
• Added engine analysis mode and improved engine play mode
• Added statistics of the solved exercises by day
• Added possibility to share exercise with friends
• Added table of symbols convention
• Bug fixes and small improvements
0.9.7
Jan 4, 2017

Chess School for Beginners FAQ

Click here to learn how to download Chess School for Beginners in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Chess School for Beginners.
iPhone
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Chess School for Beginners supports English, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
Chess School for Beginners contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Full course
$7.99

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