Chess Puzzles Pro app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 3056 ratings )

Games Entertainment Board Strategy
Developer: Adrian3

1.99 USD

Current version: 2.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 09 May 2011
App size: 4.44 Mb

Hundreds of chess puzzles are now at your fingertips with Chess Puzzles Pro.

Is there anything more fun than finding a killer checkmate combination? Do you ever wonder how many games you could have won in you were better at seeing those hidden checkmates?

This app delivers over three hundred brilliant checkmate puzzles to your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. You will be mesmerized by the incredible sacrifices and unlikely moves that result in checkmate. Whether you are new to chess or an experienced pro looking to add some flair to your endgame, Chess Puzzles Pro has something for every skill level.

- Hundreds of puzzles (mate in 1, 2, 3, 4 and up)
- Stats that record achievements as you solve puzzles
- A helpful hint button that appears if you get stuck on a particularly challenging puzzle
- A clean and beautiful interface encouraging hours of interaction

Pros and cons of Chess Puzzles Pro app for iPhone and iPad

Chess Puzzles Pro app good for

Maybe you do an ingame ratinglink. So More People rate you up. Making chess more popular.

Thank you for good selection of puzzles. Some are simple, some not, but together they are looking like good collection.

Some bad moments

Crashes at startup. Every time! Come on, guys. This app doesnt work. Would anyone spend money on an app because they DONT want to use it? Give me a refund or FIX YOUR APP. You have my money, now meet your end of the bargain.

Some puzzles have more than one way to achieve checkmate in the correct number of turns. If you dont choose the correct option (although both are correct) you are counted as incorrect. So having one solution to each puzzle would be great. Also, the app runs a bit slow.

It has a 300 variety of patterns to solve that well surely hone your skills. Chess is 60% strategy and 40% pattern recognition.

The UI is buggy. You move pieces by tapping once on the piece you want to move, then tapping on the square to which youre moving the piece. If you tap wrong (e.g., you tap on a square that would be an illegal move, or you tap to move the Rook then decide to tap to move the Queen), the UI gets stuck and theres no going back. The application simply doesnt work for me. Hopefully, the developer will address this. I like the idea of solving mating puzzles, but the bugs are a deal breaker.

The app works, but I agree with other reviewers that sometimes there is more than one solution to a puzzle. But thats okay, I can live with that. I did write to Adrian about the new awful colors and how the gray font is so hard to see, but I have not heard back. Choosing your color interface would be a plus.

The pieces grow to giant size after they have been moved. The app didnt behave this way prior to installing iOS 7 on my iPad.

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