Chess Middlegame V [iPad]

Chess Middlegame V course composed by GM Alexander Kalinin is aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes over 500 games/lectures each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Petroff defense, Ruy Lopez, Sicilian defense, Queen's Gambit, and etc. More than 400 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

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. Open games
1.1. Vienna game
1.2. Four knights game with 5.Bb5
1.3. Ruy Lopez
2. Semi-open games
2.1. Caro-Kann
2.2. Sicilian defense
3. Closed games
3.1. Queen's gambit
3.2. Nimzo-Indian defense
3.3. Queen’s Indian defense
3.4. Trompowsky attack
4. Open games
4.1. Ruy Lopez
4.2. Vienna game
4.3. Four knights game with 5.Bb5
4.4. Scotch game
4.5. Petroff
5. Semi-open games
5.1. Caro-Kann
5.2. Sicilian defense
6. Closed games
6.1. Queen's gambit
6.2. Nimzo-Indian defense
6.3. Queen’s Indian defense
6.4. Variation with 4. g3
6.5. Trompowsky attack