Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)

Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)

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Free (IAP)
Reviews
4.5 (260)
United States United States
Description
This is a perfect opening manual. It features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the greatest chess players. This compact opening manual contains a detailed classification, which makes it useful to players of any level - beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristics of key moves. The history of the variations' development is described, as well as their current status. The theoretic material is nicely illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations that demonstrate the principal ideas and plans of each variation for White and Black. There is also a special training section with more than 350 exercises of various difficulty on more than 40 openings.

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. Rare variations
1.1. 1. g3, 1. b4, ..
1.2. 1. b3
1.3. 1. d4
1.4. 1. d4 Nf6
1.5. 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
2. Alekhine's defense
3. Benoni defense
4. Bird's opening
5. Bishop's opening
6. Blumenfeld counter-gambit
7. Bogo-Indian defense
8. Budapest gambit
9. Caro-Kann
10. Catalan system
11. Center gambit
12. Dutch defense
12.1. Dutch defense
12.2. Ilyin-Genevsky system
12.3. Leningrad system
12.4. Staunton gambit
12.5. Stonewall variation
13. English opening
14. Evans gambit
15. Four knights' game
16. French defense
16.1. French defense
17. Grünfeld defense
18. Italian game & Hungarian defense
19. King's Indian defense
20. Latvian gambit
21. Nimzo-Indian defense
22. Nimzowitsch defense
23. Old Indian defense
24. Philidor's defense
25. Pirc-Robatsch defense
26. Queen's gambit
27. Queen's Indian defense
28. Queen's pawn game
29. Reti opening
30. Petrov's defense
31. Ruy Lopez
32. Scandinavian defense
33. Scotch gambit & Ponziani's opening
34. Scotch game
35. Sicilian defense
36. Three knights' game
37. Two knights' defense
38. Vienna game
39. Volga-Benko gambit
40. The complete course of openings
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Reviews

Great app but need a lot more exercises of the different openings.

It’s a really good app. I’ve learned a lot so far about how openings work.I just wish there were more examples of the opening systems. I rather like the Leningrad Dutch and want to learn more about it but you give only one example (sic) that said, the example given is very powerful. It would be great to give 20 or more examples of the different openings if at all possible. After studying some of the examples I was blasting my opponents of the board! The interface/ layout and idea/ concept are very good and easy to follow. We just need more examples/ exercises of them. Cheers

mrulyseesSat, Jan 28, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Great for chess studies!

I lik

Diesel$$$Sun, Feb 27, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Bugs, useless

I have had to “buy full course” three times because there is no log in and it seems to forget conveniently Recent opening version is awful relative to chess base It misses multiple important variations and openings ( eg no London System) Not sure how the teaching is any better

ben ten maniak 3298Tue, Jul 14, 2020
United StatesUnited States

Scam

It has nothing to do with opening. It all about tactics. Scammers. I will report this scam to apple. It just like other CT tactics. Do not fall for it folks.

Gaziz MakhanovSun, Jul 5, 2020
United StatesUnited States

Excellent teacher

The program has truly assisted me to improve my game. Great app!

herold pineFri, Oct 12, 2018
United StatesUnited States

Unexpected gem!

I really thought this would be just another tactics program, but it has some excellent teaching methods and quality chess opening scenarios.

Terryls106Fri, Aug 31, 2018
United StatesUnited States

Middlegame Lab

As far as I can tell, no Chess King software actually teaches openings or explains the ideas/strategy behind them. Their apps (and PC software) automatically play through 10-15 moves and then ask you for a best move or two, and then automatically play through several more moves and tell you that you've completed an exercise. They also group exercises alphabetically by the openings' and variations' names (except for "Rare Variations," which for some reason is at the very top of the list) rather than by moves or even commonality, presumably assuming that everyone who uses their opening app already knows the openings. Woe to the beginner who downloads this app and learns the Hungarian opening before the Ruy Lopez. Plus, Chess Kings's interface (common across all their software) is also terrible; it shows you refutations and variations, which is great, but you can't skip them or save them for later, and there are so many of them that they distract from the main line of the exercise; and it seems like if you're making enough wrong moves that this becomes a problem, the last thing you need is constant interruption. And you have no way to replay the exercise from the beginning so that you can review, so you move to the next exercise without even really knowing what you yourself did in the previous one.

Cid Hamete BenengeliWed, Oct 4, 2017
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 673Apr 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.chessking.ios.learn.openinglab
Min Os. Version
8.0
Release Date
Fri, Sep 9, 2016
Update Date
Mon, Jan 15, 2018
Content Rating
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
44.44MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
No
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English, Russian
What's New
version
1.2
updated
6 years ago
• App is updated for iPhone X
• New home screen
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements
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