Just had a look, and it seems well done, thanks for sharing
Have You Seen These Lesser-Known Chess Apps for Android - ChessKing Series?
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There's just SO MUCH at the chessking.com site, and my (new, shiny!) Android phone works well with their apps. The chess.com app is giving me disappointments lately -- upgrades aren't really keeping up with op-sys, as far as I can tell. Chessking.com's apps are much more bare-bones -- just text (analysis and commentary) and PGN games (I bet if you knew how to "root-kit" and program an Android you could extract their PGN and use it in other manners). I haven't ever bought anything from chessking.com, can't figure out what to buy! So many options! And each of the apps has about sixty or so free exercises or puzzles at the start of them. I haven't been able to exhaust the free portion at all. With about a hundred apps and about 60 free boards per app, that's more than enough for me to get started. I might later fine-tune my interest in them. They don't seem to have a bundle-pricing option, just get one at a time on your phone.
Would welcome anyone else's reviews of chessking.com and their Android apps, thanks! A bit pricey? Not? Good bargain?
is it really 10 bucks per month deal?or there are hidden charges.anyway I had a lot to do with the free stuffs yet.
I am using the apps but cant find the simpleast 'flip the board' feature. Iys so simple and mandatory feature for every app but it seems Chessking apps dont have that features at all.
When you search on Google or the Playstore for the keywords - Chess King, of course you will get every web page in the index because they are common words in the chess world. However, while I was reviewing Chess.com for posts and articles about what are the best chess apps for Android, and as I was browsing the Playstore, I came across the (perhaps) lesser-known ChessKing.com series of apps.
On the ChessKing website, you can click on the banner that says "Android Apps" which redirects to the Playstore to see what apps they offer. They come in a (limited) free version, and an upgrade for $7.99.
The "Total Chess Endings" and "Chess Guide Vol. 1" are the two apps I've looked at so far, and they look very good from my initial preview.
I believe the entire series of apps is based on the text book(s) of GM Victor Evgenyevich Golenischev. Although I cannot find much biographical information on him, it seems he was a "distinguished" Russian chess trainer who lived from 1932 - 1973 (re: ChessGames.com). Some games against Victor Korchnoi are recorded. The only other information I can find is this page in Wikipedia (use Google translator): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Victor_Golenishchev.jpg
The feature I especially find useful is the way the app is divided up into LESSONS (theory) as well as PRACTICE. The ChessKing series is quite extensive, and from what I can tell, I believe many beginners, amateurs, and club players will probably find what they are looking for in one or more of these apps.
Please leave your comments about your experience with these or other ChessKing apps.
"Total Chess Ending" course
(Android App)
Content: Theory & Practice
Theory (74 themes, subsections not listed)
1. Pawn endings
2. Knight endings
3. Bishops of opposite color
4. Opposite colored bishops with rooks or queens on the board
5. Bishops of the same color
6. Bishop against knight
7. Bishop pair in the endgame
8. Extra exchange
9. Rook against pawns
10. Rook endings
11. Endings with four rooks
12. Queen endings
13. Queen against two rooks
14. Multi-piece endings
Practice
1. Pawn endings
2. Rook endings
3. Bishop endings
4. Knight endings
5. Rook against bishop endings
6. Bishop against knight endings
7. Rook against knight endings
8. Queen against pawns
9. Queen endings
10. Queen against rook endings
11. Queen against knight endings
12. Queen against bishop endings
The Chess Guide comes in two volumes
Here is Vol. 1
(Android App)
Content: Theory & Practice
Theory
1. Attacking the king in the center
2. Attacking the king when both sides castle to the same flank
3. The calculation mistakes
4. Training the technique of calculation
5. The "good" and the "bad" bishops
6. The bishop is stronger than the knight
7. The knight is stronger than the bishop
8. The bishops of opposite color in the middlegame
9. Bringing a piece out of play
10. Exploiting the open and semi-open files
11. Open and semi-open files and attacking the king
12. An outpost on an open or semi-open file
13. Fighting for an open file
14. Strong pawn center
15. Undermining the pawn center
16. Pieces against the pawn center
17. Pieces and pawns in the center
18. The center's role in flank operations
19. Two bishops in the middlegame
20. Two bishops in the endgame
21. Successful struggle against a bishop pair
22. The weak points in opponent's camp
23. The weakness of a complex of squares
24. About some strong points
25. The pawn weaknesses
26. The doubled pawns
27. A retarded pawn on a semi-open file
28. A passed pawn
29. Queen vs. two rooks
30. Queen vs. Rook and a minor piece
31. The queen vs. the three minor pieces
32. Compensation for the queen
33. Two rooks vs. three minor pieces
34. Two minor pieces vs. Rook (with pawns)
35. The rook vs. the minor piece and two pawns
36. Compensation for the rook
37. The minor piece vs. the three pawns
38. Compensation for a minor piece
39. The learning positions
40. Geometry of the chessboard. The "shoulder charging" technique
41. The endings with the passed pawns for both sides
42. The breakthrough
43. A better deployment of pawns
44. The reserve temp
45. The activity of the king
46. Obtaining the pawn endgame as a method of realization of a material or a positional advantage
47. About the study composition. Some study ideas in practice
48. The learning positions 2
49. Control of the seventh rank
50. Using the open file
51. The endgames with the passed pawns
52. The activity in the rook endings
53. Exploiting the pawn weaknesses
54. Some resources of the defense
55. Realization of a material advantage
56. Realization of a positional advantage
57. Some rook studies
Practice
1. Attacking the king in the center
2. Attacking the king
3. The calculation mistakes
4. Training the technique of calculation
5. The "good" and the "bad" bishops
6. The bishop is stronger than the knight
7. The knight is stronger than the bishop
8. The bishops of opposite color in the middlegame
9. Bringing a piece out of play
10. Exploiting the open and semi-open files
11. Open and semi-open files and attacking the king
12. An outpost on an open or semi-open file
13. Fighting for an open file
14. Strong pawn center
15. Undermining the pawn center
16. Pieces against the pawn center
17. Pieces and pawns in the center
18. The center's role in flank operations
19. Two bishops in the middlegame
20. Two bishops in the endgame
21. Successful struggle against a bishop pair
22. The weak points in opponent's camp
23. The weakness of a complex of squares
24. The pawn weaknesses
25. The doubled pawns
26. A retarded pawn on a semi-open file
27. A passed pawn
28. Queen vs. two rooks
29. Queen vs. Rook and a minor piece
30. The queen vs. the three minor pieces
...
and 23 other themes