Product Description

Have loads fun while learning chess with Chess Tactics for Beginners - the testing and training program intended for all beginners, both children and adults. Each course in this interactive CD contains exercises for both Practice and Test. The program includes positions from practical games, endgame studies, and other carefully developed training examples. Among the topics covered you'll find mate in one, mate in two, win a Rook, win a piece, draw, etc. The many exercises are arranged in five self-contained courses, grouped according to their increasing difficulty. While learning about chess tactics the student receives a rating based on the difficulty of the problems, the time taken, and so forth. The original rating is adjusted up or down after each exercise, so that results can be monitored - see your improvement immediately! An excellent introduction to how pieces work together in the world of chess tactics. English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish versions available

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19471 in Video Games
• Brand: Chess Assistant
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows XP
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 5.25" h x .50" w x 7.50" l, .24 pounds

Features

• Includes more than 1,300 tactical problems, challenging the student to find the best moves in comples games
• Receive a rating and generate statistics on performance, in easy-to-read bar graphs - watch your progress!
• Built-in playing engine, Dragon can be called upon to analyze the problem and show alternate lines of play
• Friendly interface comes with a manual, plus receive extensive built-in help files for each language
• Learn from Practice and Test exercises designed to reinforce the tactical chess knowledge just gained

Customer Reviews

An invaluable tool to improve
I bought chess tactics for beginners, since my coach recommended. For a few months a sporadically did 5 or 6 puzzles, but never paid much attention to it. A few months ago, I was tired of being stuck at 1100, and systematically did 50 puzzles a day on this, in addition to studying books. (There are approximately 1300 puzzles, so I have repeated the puzzles 3 times so far and plan to repeat it twice more). My tactical vision has sharpened considerably. My rating jumped 100 points (this could be because of the books), and many patterns have been molded into my head from this software. It shows a graph of your tactical elo, useful in figuring out if you are improving or not. Also, it gives hints that help you but are never to revealing. Finally, the order of puzzles makes it so a particular pattern is chiseled into your mind, and even when you think you've got it, it give you more so you the patterns are completely burned in your brain.


Highly Recommended!!!

Excellent beginners chess program.
Very well done chess tactics training program by Convekta. Graphics and interface are good, not great. The course material, however, is excellent. This, in conjunction with Convekta's "Advanced Chess School," is a good start for entry level players seeking to raise their chess knowledge and skill level before moving on to Convekta's vaunted "CT-ART 3.0.

How can Convekta ignore Vista
This software does not run under Vista.

Coming up soon, Microsoft will not even sell XP, so Vista was released recently.

Convekta uses programming practices that are not in line with long-published MS standards, does not comply with those standards when it counts (when the software breaks), does not provide updates to support the standards, and then actually blames MS for the problem, leaving the customer out whatever money they spent. Amazing.

Sorry, but that is just not good business practice.

This is not the only title that suffers from these problems. I have purchased several and had install and runtime errors that will not go away after repeated fix attempts, including the one offered on the Convekta web site.

Placed several support requests, never got any answer of any kind. Nothing. Zero.

My system is stable, new, all stock and has no other software install or run problems. Only Convekta is a problem.