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Learn, play, improve!

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Ratings & Reviews
This app is for everyone.
Sun Aug 05 2018 Oscarclever

I suggest everyone should purchase this app. Although it might sounds expensive, it is actually one of the best chess app I ever had. I will tell you why. First of all, the free version have credit system, whilst the pro one gives you the option to play unlimited. Second of all, the coach gives you suggestions of the very strong moves that a grandmaster would play. The coach will comment about the positive moves that you made, not the negative one. The coach inside the app is like real chess player talking to me. I can feel your voice. I can feel your tone. There are literally more than 6000 classical collections of chess history that most chess don't even have, anyway. I love the designs of the app and there are so many options of the app that are very useful. There are even rules of chess, if any beginner tried to join in chess with millions of people. Chess is a beauty of nature. Chess is a logic board game. Chess is creative. However, you can't save this to iCloud. You can save this by backup.

Amazing analysis, rough visuals for 2025 standards
Mon Jul 07 2025 TheMauricio

I've already learned a lot through the app's use of suggested moves, threats by the computer opponent, and analysis of the games I've played, and the offline capabilities of all this makes it five stars against the competition. However, the menu and interface is a bit painful by 2025 app standards. Low-resolution backgrounds, pieces, and buttons aren't as slick as the competition. I keep the piece set on Flat, board to Grey, and background to Dark, but some of those backgrounds and pieces look like they were clearly made in the late 2000s and never replaced. (I'm looking at you, Metal and Wood pieces. Same to you, Wood 2 and Marble boards.) But still, I will keep coming back to this app versus the others because it's a one-time payment for some great features, letting you know how to improve your game, something that's locked behind subscriptions on other apps. I just hope that improving the look of the app is on the roadmap.

Great!
Thu Jan 24 2019 Bobbybob32134282

While it isn't the strongest chess app (stockfish and smallfish easily beat this app) it is still strong enough to crush everyone I know, and I know some good chess players (nationally ranked). This app is unparalleled as a training app, which is why I love it. It's playing strength ranges from moving at random to grand master precision with of 50 levels in between, which it makes it easy to improve one small step at a time. Analyze your games after you play them to see what good moves you missed. Analyze thousands of included grandmaster games to learn from the best. You can customize just about anything you might want from a huge list of options on the settings page. Sometimes this app is wrong and the opening book isn't spectacularly large or diverse, which is why I would also recommend downloading smallfish (which uses the stockfish engine), but the chess tiger engine is still much stronger than you. You have something to learn from this

Gentleman are you...?
Sun Jun 25 2017 Unknown Apple Client

So you say you're a "true gentleman". You open doors for ladies. You speak only when you're spoken to. You say please and thank you. You have a firm handshake. You know how to change a flat tire. You know how to cook. You know how to make a great cocktail. You help those in need...BUT...Do you know how to play chess? Well then ladies and gentleman, STEP RIGHT UP, this app will get you or your man in your life to get you where you ought to be. Rubbing elbows with the greatest of the greatest like, Einstein, Bobby Fischer, Benjamin Franklin, Charlie Chaplin, Mahatma Ghandi, The most interesting man in the world, and Snoop Dogg. All these great men have enjoyed a great game of chess with someone in their lifetime. Possibly with a joint in their hand, I see you BenFrank! Download this app and play it everyday! When you wake up. During lunch. Before you go to sleep. And believe me, in about a week, your name will be amongst those great men I mentioned earlier. As Seinfeld once said, "The Pin Is Mightier Than The Sword" or was that Reinfeld?

My favorite chess trainer so far
Sat May 01 2021 FEB777

When I first tried the free version and then I turned on the suggestions, I saw all the green lines flashing everywhere, I’m not sure what I was thinking, maybe I thought it was a bit confusing. I deleted the app. I got a bit more experience with other apps, videos, etc. I came back to it and just absolutely love the green lines for the main lines and suggestions. I immediately bought the pro version. You can play the trainer, at many chess ratio (ELO) levels. So you can gradually ratchet up your experience level, but still get the suggestions as you go. Or you can just play the chess program at max level, it’s tough! And then there is a really large library of famous games you can watch and analyze, Fischer-Spassky, Fischer-Byrne, Anand, Karpov, many others. Fantastic value , I recommend just getting pro version

Step-by-step tutor
Sat Jan 14 2017 Always_Learning

As you play against the app, each time you decide what your next move would be (and before you make that move) you ask the app to show you the best move you could make. Often, I find that my chosen move is not the best, although it is not clear why. I then make the recommended move, and discover (over the next couple of moves) why that recommendation was made. As you get better, you find that your move more often matches the app's recommended move. You can then move the quality of play up a notch, and find yourself playing a more challenging opponent. This incremental approach (combined with the app's play-by-play tutoring) is a really GREAT way to learn how to play better chess. If you truly want to become a better chess player, this app is well worth the price.

Excellent way to learn.
Sun Mar 31 2024 David Esq.

First, the developer is extremely responsive and the team is working on an update so this is not a dying project. Even if it wasn’t updated soon lLit’s very good. Pros: 1. It has many settings you can adjust. 2. Chess engine strength can be fine tuned, allowing you to make progress slowly but surely. 3. Play is super smooth. 4. Easy to load pgn files. Cons: 1.Interface is a little clunky. 2.Getting around the settings is not intuitive. 3. Crashes after each game is completed and analyzed (meaning when you go to begin a new game). This doesn’t happen on my iPad just the phone. Not a big deal to swipe up and restart. 4. Loading pgn file in this version does allow analysis to run but it isn’t quite the same as playing the game on the app. (You have to enable versions if you want to try alternate moves (and then go back using the moves menu and going back to the prior version) rather than doing a move and then going back with the back arrow). Would be perfect if: 1.A brief explanation were given for why a move is a bad move. Many times it is obvious, especially when you see the alternative good moves, but occasionally I am blind to why this says something is bad. I do believe this would be a very difficult task to program, however! And so far it is a very rare “mistake” that I can’t figure out.

Okay, Make Your Move!!!
Fri Oct 09 2020 Mr. Stan104

I’ve played a good amount of chess over my life, and now I need to play to keep my mental processes going, as best that I’m able. I like this app because we’re given the option to play by suggestions. This option helps guide us to learn good moving habits, yet still allows overriding when inclined to take a chance. This feature allows beginners to learn quickly by example, offering options while retaining a feeling of security. This is beneficial if you desire to play, even if you’re tired and might make mistakes. I highly recommend this app if you play chess for the enjoyment of relaxation, learning new techniques, or to satisfy your competitive spirit. This app is a good teaching tool for beginners by showing the squares the pieces can occupy, if desired. I agree with Oscarclever about being one of the best chess apps I’ve used, for clarity, ease of operation and learning, features, strategy teaching, board options... just well done! My only recommendation is that I wish, when referring any moves using alpha-numeric referencing, that the rows and columns of the board in use also be labeled, in like manner, for ease of referencing consistency. This would especially help beginners become more familiar with move terminology.

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