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Chess Tricks Guide app for iPhone and iPad


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Games Education Board Educational
Developer: Global Business Ltd
9.99 USD
Current version: 1.2, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 09 Jun 2017
App size: 44.38 Mb

NEW collection of 200 positions on the fundamentals of strategy, in which it is necessary to achieve the advantage by creating positional weaknesses in the enemy camp. Specific:
- control over strategically important fields by creating outposts;
- control an open line or a diagonal for your pieces;
- limit the mobility of enemy pieces;
With the help of technical methods such as, for example, a win exchange.

These tasks do not pose the task of immediately winning the party, but according to the principles formulated by the first world champion Wilhelm Steinitz, to achieve improvement in its position in comparison with the one that was originally, that is, Is shown in the diagram.

W. Steinitz taught: "The task of the leader of a positional battle is to regularly and systematically accumulate the smallest advantages and try to turn temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise having the advantage of risk losing it."

This collection is addressed to young chess players, coaches, teachers, parents. It can be used for training, as well as for independent studies.