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640 commented games played by the 3rd World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca

Capablanca - Chess Champion

by Chess King

What is it about?

640 commented games played by the 3rd World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca. All the games are deeply annotated. 250 most interesting and instructive positions from his games in an additional program "Play as Capablanca".

App Details

Version
1.2
Rating
(14)
Size
45Mb
Genre
Puzzle Education Board
Last updated
January 22, 2018
Release date
July 5, 2017
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640 commented games played by the 3rd World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca. All the games are deeply annotated. 250 most interesting and instructive positions from his games in an additional program "Play as Capablanca".

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, 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. Jose Raul Capablanca
1.1. 1901
1.2. 1902-1906
1.3. 1906
1.4. 1909
1.5. 1910
1.6. 1911
1.7. 1912
1.8. 1913
1.9. 1913-1914
1.10. 1914
1.11. 1915
1.12. 1916
1.13. 1918
1.14. 1919
1.15. 1921
1.16. 1922
1.17. 1924
1.18. 1925
1.19. 1926
1.20. 1927
1.21. 1928
1.22. 1929
1.23. 1929-1930
1.24. 1930-1931
1.25. 1931
1.26. 1934-1935
1.27. 1935
1.28. 1936
1.29. 1937
1.30. 1938
1.31. 1939
2. Attack on the king
3. Positional play
3.1. Creating and exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's camp
3.2. Improving one's pieces' positions. Planning
3.3. Fighting for an initiative
3.4. Pawn advance. Opening up the files
3.5. Exploiting bad position of the opponent's pieces
4. Skill of exchange
5. Combinations and tactical blows
6. Playing an endgame
7. Converting an advantage in material and/or position into a win
8. Skill of defense

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