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Chess Tactics and Lessons

Chess Tactics and Lessons

Released: 2012-06-07
© 2019 Lockwood Productions, LLC
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Version 4.1.0
4+
Download on the App Store
Version 4.1.0
4+
Download on the App Store
Released: 2012-06-07
© 2019 Lockwood Productions, LLC

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Description

“Chess is 99% tactics” (R. Teichmann.) From beginner to expert, practicing tactics is hands-down the best way to master the game.
Our app provides tactics, lessons, and openings and adjusts to your ability as you play. Join thousands of users who improve their game with tactics every day:
"This app is a must have for any chess player - student or master." -Tom Taylor, USA
"This is easily the best purchase I've made since owning a smartphone." -Miles C. Samuels, USA
"This app has improved my game tremendously!" - anonymous fandom on the App Store
FEATURES
- Tactics: Play as many tactics as you want, for free.
- Lessons: Get deeper into strategy with detailed lessons including positions from Netflix's 'The Queen Queen's Gambit' and the 2018 World Championship.
- Openings: Practice makes perfect -- save and practice openings from the Grandmasters and more.
- Create your own tactics, lessons, and openings for others to try. Compete with others to make the leaderboard for the toughest ones.
- Learn from your mistakes. When you get something wrong, you can see the solution, see an explanation for the tactic, and talk to others in the comments.
- Join the community: comment on tactics and learn from other users.
- Customize your board design.
New tactics are added every day, so you'll never run out.
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Chess Tactics PRO subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account upon purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. See Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for more information.
Privacy Policy: https://chesstacticsapp.com/privacy.html
Terms of Service: https://chesstacticsapp.com/terms.html
Acknowledgements:
Chess Pieces by jurgenwesterhof on WikiCommons (adapted from work of Cburnett)
Icons by bezier master, Cutiecon, and Shawn Wong from the Noun Project.

What's New in Version 4.1.0

Play along with the games from Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit'. 10 games and positions from the show can be found under lessons.
Add haptics to the back button when viewing a solution.

Seller

Name

Lockwood Productions, LLC

Information

Categories

Version

4.1.0

Size

43.1 MB

Game Center

No

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 13.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, Chinese, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.5 of 5 (376 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2020-11-18

Very useful!!

Great app! I’ve never played chess before, and only just started learning so I decided to download this app.
It’s great for beginners if you are just starting to play chess or experienced players if you would like a refresher!
ChrisO1998
Version 4.0.4
2020-11-01

This is truly amazing

ITS AMAZING DEFINITELY GET THIS !!!!! MUST HAVE 💖🥳🥳♟
maryamyam🎉
Version 4.0.4
2020-09-26

Tactics

I was surprised by the quality of this app!! So good. Interesting position- challenging puzzles - what is not to love!
RJPlus
Version 4.0.2
2020-09-11

Subscription is a rip off

This app used to have a one off payment to unlock features. Now developers have gotten greedy and want you to pay a monthly or yearly subscription. This is just ridiculous for an app of this sort. For the price they are asking you could get a membership on a chess site. Also the app hasn’t improved much in years.
NeverBeenTimid
Version 4.0.2
2020-04-07

Best App I ever got

The best chess app anywhere!!
wizbee15
Version 4.0.2
2019-11-28

Chess tactics

Excellent training
Shisun
Version 4.0.0
2019-08-06

Great chess app

My new favourite chess app. I was wary of the 'user-generated' idea for a chess app at first, but it's actually great . The puzzles are varied, constantly updated, and it's fun reading the comments and conversations of others also puzzling to solve the tactical problems. Highly addictive and good for my chess skills too.
Jameszzzzzzz
Version 3.3.5
2019-01-13

Sim

Great fun way to get scratching my head and making decisions. Love it
Sim66Sim
Version 3.2.5
2017-12-01

Great app, very pleasant easy and rich chess training. Thanx ;-)

Perfect, great, wonderful ;-).
Gr8, thank you...
Troupzer
Version 2.6.2
2016-12-17

Sweet chess app

Good fun. Could do with more variety: defences etc and puzzles can be impractical and repetitive. But that's the fault of users not the app makers. Otherwise it's great.
Jumping goats
Version 2.5.1
2016-11-12

Great fun!

The rating is realistic and the positions very interesting, fantastic way to improve your tactical sense
malandri
Version 2.5.1
2016-10-13

Money hungry app

This app deliberately uses a horrible board that is hard to distinguish between pieces and charges you extra to change to a normal board. Ok. But then after that it charges you more money to save tactics and again if you want to remove the ads! Avoid!
Frederickclegg
Version 2.5.1
2016-09-22

Jon chess dude

Really good app and would recommend. Very addictive and improves your tactical play.
C.clair
Version 2.5.1
2016-04-04

Great way to brush up chess skills

The best thing about this is that every puzzle is from a real live human being - not a chess engine. Now, some of them are a bit lame (humans, eh?) but others rank in the grandmaster levels. The discussions always make for interesting reading. I’ve been using as a free app for some months but I’m about to put some money in – I want to get rid of that dreadful free board for a start, then comment and save games.
M4mac
Version 2.5.1
2016-01-01

Wicked app.

Best app out there. makes me think outside the box
Greenly135635622467743
Version 2.5.1
2015-12-30

Great little app

Really happy with this, good fun and easy to use.
TheShezBot
Version 2.5.1
2015-11-24

Kru

Endless flow of tactics to solve. Never had a problem. Great app
Kai_zen
Version 2.5.1
2015-11-02

Useful app to carry everywhere with you

Whether you are a beginner or a more confirmed player, this is the perfect app to keep your mind active when you have a few idle moments, on public transports, in a waiting room or in the office.
Grande oreille
Version 2.5.1
2015-04-05

Good chess trainer

This is an excellent little app to push up your skills at chess. It gets you to think quite aggressively and to consider which pieces to sacrifice (not being too precious about keeping the queen..), and the tactics suggested tend to have a check / checkmate focus rather than setting up the board with a solid, centre-board foundation.
Some of the moves suggested I feel would leave you vulnerable in a game, but they are most probably better than what I would have otherwise done.. :-/
Could be improved by allowing you to move backwards and forwards after the solution has been given, to properly process *why* it is the best solution. Also, it only works when you have a connection, an offline option would be good..
But still a very good app, liking it a lot..
Bass_cadet
Version 2.5.1
2014-12-11

The best

This is the absolute best free chess tactics app, it's based on user submitted problems, a scoring system and leaderboard which makes the app addictively competitive, it all works fantastically well and uses barely any data. The free version is funded by small banner ads which slightly get in the way and there are extra functions in the paid version but the free version is all you need.
Pete Noblr
Version 2.4.3
2014-12-03

Great app

Works great, splendid little brain teaser.
Jeudecisif
Version 2.4.3
2014-11-03

Chess tactics

Very useful for testing end game tactics
Beginners choice
Version 2.4.2
2014-08-31

Chess

I love this app!!! The best app!!
Apollo7575
Version 2.4.2
2014-07-01

Very good

These are user-contributed tactical puzzles of varying difficulty. The app is very well put together. A great way to improve at chess!
2004nicholasf
Version 2.4.2
2014-07-01

Great app

Use this app all the time, good for improving my chess skills and killing the odd minute here and there. The community created tactics are good too
Stevejtw
Version 2.4.2
2014-03-25

Simple, helpful and the dragon boss on the last level is very hard. Use Pawn to E4....

Can you handle it...
Clairey Humpy
Version 2.4.1
2013-12-20

Bug

Cant get in theres a bug
Olimouse17
Version 2.3.1
2013-12-14

Perfect chess honer

Love it, great interface, user generated, excellent way to brush up the skills. In-app purchase unnecessary
Davbyd
Version 2.3.1
2013-11-20

Server error

Server error need to be updated. It is spoiling the game.
Rush8080
Version 2.3.1
2013-11-16

Excellent tactics app

Lots of varied and interesting tactics. Many tactics apps feature obscure and fanciful tactics, but the ones on this app are commonplace and at times very pretty.
Mr Chesskovski
Version 2.3.1
2013-10-31

Awesome

Easy to use, lots of great puzzles to solve!
Megey grey
Version 2.2.0
2013-10-28

Great app!!!

Great app!!! Endless number of puzzles, all of them rated
JLPpppppp
Version 2.2.0
2013-10-09

Crowd sourced chess tactics

Fun, concept works well
Pawnjr
Version 2.1.3
2013-10-08

Mr

Fantastic app hours of fun 5 stars
Temps11
Version 2.1.3
2013-09-24

Jones

One of the " must have " app ...
Hnerty
Version 2.1.3
2013-09-15

Chess tactics

A great range of varied tactics. User generated and nice to be able to discuss in comments as well.
Andy Chisholm
Version 2.1.3
2013-09-12

Excellent

Like it !!
Qwerty_man
Version 2.1.3
2013-07-31

Chess Tactics

Simple, addictive, beneficial & fun
JezLeo
Version 2.1.3
2013-07-10

A winning resource - check!

Thanks so much to all the contributors for making this app such a pleasure to use. I lost my first couple of games I played recently but since starting training with these tactics I'm finding good moves easier to spot. I had a really successful (quick check mate) using the Sicilian defence and felt I put what I'd learnt here into practice. Thanks again.
The Boy Sykes
Version 2.1.3
2013-07-05

Excellent

Exactly what I was looking for - chess tactics puzzles of scaled difficulty.
Mbowen1989
Version 2.1.3
2013-06-25

Not working

After the latest update this is not working just a white screen shame because this was one of my favourite apps :(
xxlouiseandpaulxx
Version 2.1.2
2013-06-25

Update has crashed

Since recent update game unplayable due to whiteout! Please fix.
Zedlee
Version 2.1.2
2013-06-23

By far the best tactics app

Its fun, improves your game, and has a great interface
Jpheaton
Version 2.1.1
2013-06-14

Very good app

I liked this app very much. It would have been nice if there is an option to choose the puzzle based on rating etc.
Drbhanu
Version 2.1.1
2013-06-09

Brilliant app!!!

Endless puzzles. All rated plus you gain your own ranking. Give it a try!
Stevethehunter
Version 2.1.1
2013-06-08

Great Chess App.

This is a fantastic app for teaching the subtle skills in playing Chess, with plenty of tactics to learn from.
A.D.W-GB
Version 2.1.1
2013-05-30

Mr.

Great App. Not so much a trainer as a great challenge. A must have.
IronMazZ
Version 2.1
2013-05-29

Eating

Yes
Fylynder
Version 2.1
2013-05-27

The best bit of chess

Not sure I always agree with the solution, but that might be just me!
PodgerPots
Version 2.1