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Experience the unique advantage of having Dr. Wolf speak to you while you look at the board, offering clear, spoken explanations for every move.\n- **A Comprehensive Chess Curriculum:** Engage with an extensive suite of over 50 interactive chess lessons. Starting from foundational concepts, you'll progress through to advanced strategies and tactics, all structured to enhance your understanding and performance in chess.\n- **Mistake Correction and Practice:** Learn from your mistakes in a constructive environment. Dr. Wolf remembers all your moves and goes over them again with you so you don’t make the same mistakes again.\n- **Diverse Coaching Personalities:** Choose from four distinct coach profiles, each with a unique voice, teaching style and personality. 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Then, to continue learning, you can subscribe to Coaching. With Coaching, Dr. Wolf teaches while you play chess, pointing out good moves and bad — both yours and his — and the reasoning behind them. At times, he'll gently suggest you reconsider a move, or ask a question at a critical moment. Plus, you get unlimited hints, unlimited undos, and unlimited access to our Lesson Library, with over thirty lessons in Dr. Wolf's unique style. Whether or not you choose to subscribe, Dr. Wolf will always play with you. He loves chess too much to turn down a good game.\n\n\n** TERMS & DETAILS **\n\nPayment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged the same amount for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a Free Trial, if offered, is forfeited when you buy a subscription.\n\nPrices may vary by location.\n\nTerms of Use: https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com/terms-of-use\n\nPrivacy Policy: https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com/privacy-policy","facts":{"developer_id":329218552,"developer_url":"https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com/","first_released":"2018-07-30T17:41:03Z","support_url":"https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com/contact","privacy_url":"https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com/privacy-policy","website_url":"https://www.learnchesswithdrwolf.com/","app_version":"3.16.0","release_notes":"Hello students! Dr. Wolf is back with an exciting checkmate patterns lesson: Common Queen and Bishop Mates! \n\nWe have also fixed some bugs and made general quality-of-life improvements. 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