Elementary Chess Tactics 1
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This course includes more than 4300 exercises on simple tactical methods
- Rating
- 4.6
- 1K ratings
- Downloads
- 100K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- May 21
- 2026 · v5.7.5
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About Elementary Chess Tactics 1
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 4300 exercises for beginners on the following tactical methods: Fork, pin, double check, discovered check, annihilation of the opponent's king defense, exploiting a back (1st) rank weakness. If you are a beginner or a club player, this is the program for you! After going through this course you will never miss an elementary combination in a practical game of your own and will be able to improve the quality of your play considerably.
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, middlegame, 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
♔ 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
♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. The fork
1.1. Pawn
1.2. Knight
1.3. Bishop
2. Pin or skewer
2.1. Bishop
2.2. Rook
3. Double check
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
3.9. Level 13
3.10. Level 14
4. Discovered check
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
5. Annihilation of defense of a king
5.1. Level 8
5.2. Level 9
5.3. Level 10
5.4. Level 11
5.5. Level 12
5.6. Level 13
5.7. Level 14
5.8. Level 15
5.9. Level 16
5.10. Level 17
5.11. Level 18
5.12. Level 19
5.13. Level 20
5.14. Level 21
5.15. Level 22
5.16. Level 23
6. Annihilation of the back rank defense
6.1. Level 7
6.2. Level 9
6.3. Level 10
6.4. Level 11
6.5. Level 12
6.6. Level 13
6.7. Level 14
6.8. Level 15
6.9. Level 16
6.10. Level 17
6.11. Level 18
6.12. Level 19
6.13. Level 20
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, middlegame, 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
♔ 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
♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. The fork
1.1. Pawn
1.2. Knight
1.3. Bishop
2. Pin or skewer
2.1. Bishop
2.2. Rook
3. Double check
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
3.9. Level 13
3.10. Level 14
4. Discovered check
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
5. Annihilation of defense of a king
5.1. Level 8
5.2. Level 9
5.3. Level 10
5.4. Level 11
5.5. Level 12
5.6. Level 13
5.7. Level 14
5.8. Level 15
5.9. Level 16
5.10. Level 17
5.11. Level 18
5.12. Level 19
5.13. Level 20
5.14. Level 21
5.15. Level 22
5.16. Level 23
6. Annihilation of the back rank defense
6.1. Level 7
6.2. Level 9
6.3. Level 10
6.4. Level 11
6.5. Level 12
6.6. Level 13
6.7. Level 14
6.8. Level 15
6.9. Level 16
6.10. Level 17
6.11. Level 18
6.12. Level 19
6.13. Level 20
What’s new
Version 5.7.5 · Updated May 21, 2026
* Added Czech and Korean translations * Show best and worst subtopics on the statistics screen * Increased board size in the landscape mode * Feel free to share your experience via the feedback! * Various fixes and improvements
User reviews
Great for learning chess.
Excellent, tons of exercises to build pattern recognition.
Good for learners
可以增加多谢战术技巧比如,堵塞,包围,拦着,抽将,闪击等等
Good
Easy
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