CT-ART 4.0

Finally - A New and Improved Version of the Legendary Chess Tactics Art is available!

This program is the 4th revised and expanded edition of the ever popular Chess Tactics Art by the Russian GM of Correspondence chess, Maxim Blokh. The material was chosen for a wide variety of player strengths from 1600 ELO to 2300 USCF. The level of difficulty of the examples is for beginner and intermediate strength chess players, but even masters will find themselves challenged by the hardest ones.

With over 4,000 different exercises, Chess Tactics Art 4.0 is an indispensable training tool for chessplayers that are looking to improve their tactical prowess. It is an ideal educational environment for chessplayers of all skill levels to study, practice, solve and test their tactical expertise on the 64-square battlefield.

Unlike other pieces of training software, which are very user-unfriendly and difficult to use, the revolutionary new user-interface of Chess Tactics Arts allows you to focus on what matters the most - Your Improvement!

Chess Tactics Art 4.0 features...

* All major Chess Tactical methods, including Annihilation of Defense, Distraction, Decoy, Open attack, Opening of a file, Space clearance, X-ray attack and Interception

* All Chess Combination motifs, including Geometrical Motif, File, Rank and Diagonal Weaknesses, Opposition, Overloaded Pieces, Poor Positioning of Pieces, and Limited Material

* The ability to select the difficulty range of the positions you wish to be tested against

* Numerous text and visual hints to help the student find the solution if needed. Help features include: marking the most important squares, illustration of ideas with more simple examples (more than 1,000 subsidiary exercises). In some cases, an extra board is presented.

* Exercises that illustrate the pattern behind the combination, further enhancing thestudent's pattern recognition

* Student's rating estimation and other statistics in easy-to-read bar graphs, based on students' success rate with the exercises, helping to keep track of progress

* A Grandmaster-strength sparring partner (chess playing program) to test your newly gained tactical knowledge

* The ability for multiple users to use the software, with independent ratings and all other individual information

* Support for English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish languages

Chess Tactics Art 4.0 is ideal for chess teachers, as it will keep track of the time and score of each position for each of your students, allowing you to assess their strengths and weaknesses and adjust your curicululmn according.

System requirements: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium 100 CPU, 64 MB memory (RAM), Hard Disk (50 MB of free disk space for the program), VGA graphics, Windows XP/Vista/System 7, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft-compatible mouse

No Additional Software is required!

THIS PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS SYSTEM 7!

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