CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics)

The legendary chess tactics course is now available on Android, catering to players with an ELO rating from 1200 to 2400! This renowned program, voted multiple times by chess experts as the best chess training course in the world, is now at your fingertips. Featuring 2,200 basic exercises and 1,800 auxiliary exercises, the course is divided into 50 comprehensive topics. It is based on the bestselling book "Combination Motifs" by the celebrated trainer and grandmaster, Maxim Blokh. All positions have been meticulously selected over 20 years of training practice and are arranged in a sequence that optimizes learning efficiency.

Each position in the course comes with a unique feature: a 5x5 mini-position that encapsulates the essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example. This course is part of the ChessKing Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers an unmatched method for chess education. The series includes courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, tailored for players from beginners to professionals. With this course, you can enhance your chess skills, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practice.

The program serves as a personal coach, providing tasks to solve and assisting when you're stuck. It offers hints, explanations, and even showcases striking refutations of common mistakes. Key advantages of the program include:

• High-quality examples, all double-checked for accuracy
• Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the teacher
• Varied levels of task complexity
• Diverse goals to achieve within the problems
• Hints provided when errors are made
• Refutations shown for typical mistaken moves
• Ability to play out any position against the computer
• Structured table of contents
• Monitoring of the player's ELO rating changes during the learning process
• Test mode with flexible settings
• Option to bookmark favorite exercises
• Adaptation to the larger screens of tablets
• No internet connection required
• Possibility to link the app to a free ChessKing account and solve one course from multiple devices on Android, iOS, and Web simultaneously

The course includes a free section where you can test the program. The lessons offered in the free version are fully functional, allowing you to experience the application under real-world conditions before unlocking the following topics:

1. Themes:
   1. Annihilation of defense
   2. Distraction
   3. Decoy
   4. Discovered attack
   5. Opening of a file
   6. Clearance
   7. X-ray attack
   8. Interception
   9. Blocking, encirclement
   10. Destruction of the pawn shelter
   11. Pawn promotion
   12. Intermediate move, winning of a tempo
   13. Play for a stalemate
   14. Restricting of material
   15. Pursuit
   16. Conjunction of tactical methods
   17. Chess Tactics Art for Advanced
2. Difficulty:
   1. Level 10
   2. Level 20
   3. Level 30
   4. Level 40
   5. Level 50
   6. Level 60
   7. Level 70
   8. Level 80
   9. Level 90
   10. Level 100