Chess Problems Lite vs Chess Strategy (1800

A lite version of the Ultimate mate in 1 to 4+ chess puzzle apps! Sharpen your chess skills! Beginners and experienced players will enjoy solving these chess problems! This app has 10 interactive chess problems ranging from easy mate in one move problems to very challenging mate in four moves. The object is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in a given number of moves. In the full versions of this app there are a much larger number of classical puzzles collected from a variety of sources. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Chess problems are especially useful for learning to play chess or anyone wanting to improve their skills. New features added include: ------------------------------ - Completely revamped chess engine that is much stronger - Timing clock is displayed while you are working on each puzzle. How long you take to solve a puzzle is stored. - New options: more chess piece sets (total of 7) and more colors schemes (total of 7) including wood and marble. (Improved the options menu as well) - Social Gaming: Leaderboards to compare the number of puzzles you have solved with your friends and other players. Facebook integration - including the ability to post your progress and ask your friends for help on a puzzle. - Universal app - works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - high resolution graphics all around (where supported). For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps: - Mate in 1 Puzzles - Mate in 2 Puzzles - Mate in 3 Puzzles - Mate in 4+ Puzzles

This chess program presents many instructive positions with 18 most important strategic themes such as Advantage in development, Advantage in space, Attack on the king, Attack on the queenside, Weak squares, Pawn structure, Open files and diagonals and others. 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. Advantage in development 2. Advantage in space 3. Attack on the king 3.1. Attack on the king 3.2. Attack on the uncastled king 3.3. Attack on the king when both opponents castled to the same side 3.4. Attack on the king in positions with opposite side castling 4. Attack on the queenside 5. Defense and counterattack 6. Weak square 7. Open files and diagonals 7.1. Open files and diagonals 7.2. Open files 7.3. Open diagonals 8. Pawn structure 8.1. Pawn structure 8.2. Weak pawns 8.3. Pawn majority 8.4. Restriction of mobility 9. Central squares 9.1. Central squares 9.2. Pawn center 9.3. Piece-and pawn center 9.4. The center and the wings 10. Disposition of pieces 10.1. Disposition of pieces 10.2. Fight between minor pieces 10.3. Limitation of pieces mobility 11. Exchange 12. Positional sacrifice 13. Isolated queen's pawn 13.1. Isolated queen's pawn 13.2. Playing methods with an isolated pawn 13.3. Methods of play against an isolated pawn 14. A pawn pair c3+d4 on the semi-open files 14.1. A pawn pair c3+d4 on the semi-open files 14.2. Against 14.3. For 15. Hanging pawns 15.1. Hanging pawns 15.2. Fight against hanging pawns 15.3. Methods of play with an hanging pawns 16. Prevention 17. The rule of two weaknesses 18. Plan