Chess Strategy 3.0

Chess Strategy - The program includes 250 examples to study, 1100 exercises to solve and 450 typical positions to play. The author of the training material is grandmaster Alexander Kalinin.

Main features of the program Chess Strategy:

• Course navigator, which allows you to quickly select the desired mode and topic,
• Selecting a specific topic position both from the table of contents list and by quickly viewing diagrams,
• Playing, viewing, auto-playing examples in study mode, hint markers,
• Playing for any color on various time controls with the Dragon or Crafty programs,
  • playing from any current position of study and practice examples,
  • playing from the initial position,
  • position placement and subsequent play,
  • the ability to save played games in PGN,
• Test mode: selection for solving a certain number of tasks of the required complexity,
• Detailed statistics of solving tests and practice (both by topic and by individual tasks) for any number of users (students),
• Calculation of the user's Elo depending on the success of solving practical examples, graphical statistics of changes in Elo,
• Printing of individual exercises or all exercises of the current topic (only in CT-Art3 programs, Sketches for practitioners 2.0, Encyclopedia of Middlegame II, Encyclopedia of debut mistakes),
• Settings:
  • interface design
  • board sizes, type of shapes, sizes, colors and type of fonts
  • speed of movement of figures
  • connection of external game programs,
• Detailed built-in help (Help).

Limitations of the demo version:

• Material: all topics and all positions are given both in study (250) and in practice (1100), but only examples of the first topic are fully functional ('Advantage in development').
• In the demo version, there is no access to playing specially selected standard positions (400).