Manual of Chess Combinations
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Course by a renowned chess trainer Sergey Ivashchenko with more 1100 exercises
- Rating
- 4.7
- 2.7K ratings
- Downloads
- 100K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Apr 1
- 2020 · v1.3.5
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About Manual of Chess Combinations
The material used in the program is based on a textbook by a renowned chess trainer Sergey Ivashchenko - Manual of Chess Combinations vol 2.
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. Mating combinations
2. Pinning combinations
3. Distraction
4. Decoying
5. Damming
6. Annihilation of defence
7. Discovered attack
8. Clearing the space
9. Opening of file (rank, diagonal)
10. The double attack
11. X-ray attack
12. Demolition of pawn structure
13. Conjunction of tactical methods
14. Using a passed pawn
15. Maneuvers
16. Exchange
17. Theoretical positions
18. Studies
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. Mating combinations
2. Pinning combinations
3. Distraction
4. Decoying
5. Damming
6. Annihilation of defence
7. Discovered attack
8. Clearing the space
9. Opening of file (rank, diagonal)
10. The double attack
11. X-ray attack
12. Demolition of pawn structure
13. Conjunction of tactical methods
14. Using a passed pawn
15. Maneuvers
16. Exchange
17. Theoretical positions
18. Studies
What’s new
Version 1.3.5 · Updated April 1, 2020
* Added Help section in the Settings * Ability to select several themes in test * Various fixes and improvements
User reviews
Teach me how to use different kind of chess strategies with lots of practices based on real master chess tournaments
Best chess app series no doubt!
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Awesome app, Thanks
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Very good puzzle can't solve without error
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