CT-ART. Chess Mate Theory

Fundamental course of mate combinations from famous coach Victor Khenkin!

The CT-ART. Mating Combinations program is unique for two reasons: the high quality of the theoretical material and a new technology for presenting study content, the iBook technology that uses hyperlinks and additional windows for comfortable usage of the studying material. The course is prepared by the famous coach Victor Khenkin and includes 1200 instructive examples on 14 themes, each of them illustrates the peculiarities of using certain pieces for mating combinations and 700 exercises for you to solve.

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.

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
• ♔ 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. 1\. The rook
2. 2\. The bishop
3. 3\. The queen
4. 4\. The knight
5. 5\. The pawn
6. 6\. Two rooks
7. 7\. The rook and the bishop
8. 8\. The rook and the knight
9. 9\. Two bishops
10. 10\. Two knights
11. 11\. The bishop and the knight
12. 12\. The queen and the bishop
13. 13\. The queen and the knight
14. 14\. Three pieces

What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2

Last updated on Jul 29, 2024 * Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
* Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
* Added daily goal for puzzles - chose how many exercise you need to keep your skills in shape.
* Added daily streak - how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
* Various fixes and improvements