First part of great course for club players with 200 lessons and 1100 exercises!
About Chess Combinations Vol. 1
Chess Combinations Vol. 1 is a board app developed by Chess King.
Download Statistics
Chess Combinations Vol. 1 has been downloaded 240 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 380 times.
User Ratings
Chess Combinations Vol. 1 is rated 4.64 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.8 thousand ratings.
App Information
Chess Combinations Vol. 1 is FREE to download. The APK download size is 18.26 MB. The latest version available is 5.7.5. The last update was on May 22, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Chess Combinations Vol. 1 requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play October 2015.
Description
The fundamental chess program for club players. This first part includes more than 1300 exercises (more than 200 examples to explore and 1100 to solve), classified in 40 tactical methods and motifs.
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.
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 ♔ 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. Win 1.1. Mate in 1 1.2. Double attack 1.3. Simultaneous attack 1.4. Discovered attack 1.5. Discovered attack with check 1.6. Discovered check 1.7. Mill 1.8. Double check 1.9. Linear attack 1.10. Absolute pin 1.11. Relative pin A 1.12. Relative pin B 1.13. Trap in the opening 1.14. Passed pawn 1.15. Intermediate move 1.16. Intermediate check 1.17. Counter attacking move 1.18. Zugzwang 1.19. Invasion 1.20. Irrefutable threat 1.21. Ambush 1.22. X-Ray 1.23. Gaining tempo 2. Draw 2.1. Theoretical draw 2.2. Stalemate 2.3. Desperado 2.4. Perpetual check 2.5. Perpetual attack 2.6. Perpetual threat 2.7. Positional draw 2.8. Fortress 2.9. Blocade 3. Combining tactical devices 3.1. Combining tactical devices 3.2. Exercises 1 3.3. Exercises 2 3.4. Exercises 3
Recent changes: * Added Czech and Korean translations * Show separate theory/practice/animation buttons for the courses contents to allow direct access * Show best and worst subtopics on the statistics screen * Increased board size in the landscape mode * Feel free to share your experience via the feedback! * Various fixes and improvements
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I have many tactical theory books and puzzle collections. This app is really a standout! The best way to learn combinations according to Seinfeld is to organize them in themes and work at them from simple to difficult. The organization is amazing. My play has increased significantly. After a good tactical primer like Giannatos' Everyone's Firsts Chess Workbook or Chess Tactics for students by Bain, this app is great to get repeated exposure to more multi move combinations. 6 stars. Irreplaceable
★★★★★Mark Dickie· Jul 7, 2017
Chess King's apps take you through learning chess in a very methodical satisfying way.
★★★★★Mário Paes de Almeida Júnior· Feb 15, 2021
The test settings are the best feature. You can filter by topics and difficulty. After tests, you can filter the ones you make mistakes and inaccuracies it's really great. My only serious suggestion is a future option for solving the puzzles from the weaker side. There are few apps that have this feature of solving puzzles from the weaker side and this would turn this app into a monster of chess training. I recommend the developers to give it a serious thought into this feature.
★☆☆☆☆Steven Prince· Jan 30, 2021
Everything is closed till you pay for premium - what a useless app !!!
★☆☆☆☆John Hazlett· Oct 30, 2025
It's OK. But if you have trouble with a combination, it doesn't have the capability to go over it very well.
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