Think Like a King Chess Workout Family Package
- One CD contains a complete chess library for everyone to share – get all six Chess Workouts© with First Lessons in Chess©
- First Lessons© is our basic tutorial for novices, whether young or ancient. Covering all the basic rules and moves, chess notation, opening approach, tactics and common endgame scenarios
- Reflect Like A King® series is the exact starting point for those new to chess, from grade 3 to adult.
- Dozens of animations, challenges and 165 interactive chess puzzles make learning a snap.
- Chess tutorials are completely engaging and interactive.
Product Description
First Lessons in Chess – a exact way for reading-aged children grade 3 and up (or their parents!) to get started in chess. First Lessons is for players new to chess, whether young or ancient. Covering all the basic rules and moves, including chess notation, opening approach, tactics and common endgame scenarios, this introduction to the Reflect Like A King learning series contains dozens of animations, challenges and 165 interactive chess puzzles that make learning a snap. Tactical Thinking-Master basic tactical concepts with an interactive tutorial designed to help players recognize strategic and tactical opportunities. From Pins to Forks and Skewers, Undermining to Overworking, basic tactical thinking is visibly defined and demonstrated via interactive puzzles. Unadorned text explanations and minimal dependence on chess notation make this a exact teaching tool for beginning students. Checkmate Thinking -apply the tactical lessons learned above and add the next level of thinking (pattern recognition and combination attacks) to pursue the ultimate goal of Checkmate. Over 300 interactive checkmate problems that transform beginners into real chess thinkers!
Endgame Thinking – Everything may come down to the Endgame, and here’s where beginners have the most distress. A course on the science of the end of the game, endings where clear thinking and careful play are critical. Learn the tactics of Pawn Promotion and the rules that let you make a winning position – or prevent your opponent from gaining one! Opening Thinking – a truly unique learning tool that explores the why and not just the how of opening play. Covering the common openings and variants, with Traps, Zaps and more.
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First, the scoring system is a real modivator: depending on how you do on a conundrum your (estimated) ELO goes up or down. I work harder on the problems because I want the gratification of a higher score, and if I am not paying attention I get hit with a score penality! This constant reinforcement keeps me all ears. Second, chess combinations are well tested, and one can check his or her own solution using the built in Craft chess engine. Finally, the system provides hints if you make a incorrect go, allowing one to gradually work up to harder problems. This software does not have a 3d graphic interface, but this software has all the other options that will facilitate your examine.
Rating: 5 / 5
For the amateur chessplayer, tactics = everything. If you’re a beginner or club-level player you’ll progress farther and quicker by studing tactics than by studying any other quality of the game. ChessCentral’s Reflect Like a King offers the user more than 1000 tactical military exercises for practice (since the ability to spot tactical patterns in actual sports meeting relies much on pattern recognition — seeing familiar patterns in non-identical penetrate positions). In addition to using these positions as just “tactics puzzles”, you can also play these positions out against the “Crafty” computer program which is included in the package. This truly is a “chess workout” and will help increase the play of nearly any chessplayer. It’s also a real “family package”: unlike many other chess software programs, ChessCentral’s “Reflect Like a King” makes provision for multiple individual user logins.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this because my brother recommended it. Wow, what a splendid buy. Get it now!
Rating: 5 / 5
I really like the way this program drastically improved my tactical vision by just solving about 100 “Grades By Difficulty” puzzles a day for a cycle of a few weeks (!). My rating on ICC went up about 100 points and, equally vital, my confidence grows in view of that. Marvel what this will do to my future otb-rating (ELO).
Only two complaints:
1)When taking a test there’s no “counter” visible, so you don’t have a clue how many puzzles you still have to go (I like the way other programs of theirs – like “Intermediate Tactics” give information like “#5 of 50″).
2)When you make a few mistakes, a small dialogue box opens up, showing you a similar position as the one you’re trying to solve, which you can practice on, but… where the “main puzzles” have the (option of showing the) affect you’re playing at the bottom of the penetrate, these small “help boards” always show the position from the White side.
I find the above mentioned “shortcomings” irritating, but maybe it’s just me…
By and large, certainly a program worth buying, although I’d suggest you get “Total Chess Training”, which not only contains CT-ART 3.0, but also 4 other fascinating programs (Encyclopedia of Middlegames, Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders, Studies 2.0 and Approach 2.0) for about $95. There’s also a newer version of this product (“Total Chess Training 2″) available for the same price, here on Amazon.com
Rating: 5 / 5
If you want to increase your chess playing, buy this program. In small, it will make you a better player.
Under a master standard level (2000 ELO) tactics is the name of the game, and this teaches them. There are over 1200 examples which are perfectly laid out, and there are friendly hints to guide you in the right management should you not initially find the right solution.
In my opinion, this is one of the best buys you can make if you want to increase your chess. Although after reading Michael De La Mazza’s Rapid Chess Improvement I was already a convert.
Rating: 5 / 5