Manual of Chess Combinations

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About this game

The material used in the program is based on a textbook by a renowned chess trainer Sergey Ivashchenko - Manual of Chess Combinations.

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.

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
♔ 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. Mating combinations
2. Pinning combinations
3. Distraction
4. Decoying
5. Damming
6. Blockade
7. Annihilation of defence
8. Discovered attack
9. Clearing the space
10. Opening of file (rank, diagonal)
11. The double attack
12. X-ray attack
13. Demolition of pawn structure
14. Conjunction of tactical methods
15. Using a passed pawn
16. Maneuvers
17. Exchange
18. Theoretical positions
19. Studies
Updated on
Jul 16, 2025

Data safety

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This app may share these data types with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity, and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.0
3.76K reviews
Michael Krailo
January 19, 2023
This is for more advanced players. If your still beginner, there are better chess king apps that can further your development at your level. That said, I really love this app due to the greater level of challenge that it provides. I had to take many of these puzzles and create my own analysis of them in my notes app so I would be sure that I knew the concepts that were involved. Make sure you know why a move is incorrect before playing it, then look for better move.
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A Google user
May 31, 2019
This app shows me how dumb I am in the game of chess. It also gives me a chance to explore different combinations and tactics. Overall it is a fine chess program! I have used other programs that have better controls, they allow you to ask for hints, very subtle hints to allow you to check what might be the best move. This programs controls are a little less sophisticated.
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Chess King
June 4, 2019
Hello, You can enable the tips option by ticking "Auto hints" in the settings.
Ramkhiladi
April 18, 2021
I've been playing chess for a while... The amount of work done on this app is phenomenal. This is the best tactics training app...almost feels like a grandmaster is training you with all the crazy lines, but also subtle hints to help you proceed. This app is a work of art... Would rate it 6 out of 5.
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What’s new

* Refreshed design, using the latest Android visual styles now
* Improved external UCI engines support
* Fixed stability issues on Android 7
* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!
* Various fixes and improvements