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Rory Farrell

So far so good. Going through Chess Tactics for Beginners. Challenging enough to make me feel like I'm accomplishing something but not too difficult as yet. The ads are very short, you can stop them after 5 seconds. I'll probably pay for it after I use it for a while.

Richard M.

Best chess training app for Android, by far. It's great for tactics training, among other things.

A Google user

I have tried a lot of different mobile chess apps and I believe this one is by far the best in helping us improve. It has serious study material, well thought courses, based on reputable books/exercises...it's not a collection of random puzzles, as it is with most apps out there. There is also a lot of different courses, that will help beginners as well as masters. Highly recommended

A Google user

A really cool app to help you learn and improve. Great explanations and theory. Heaps of lessons - more than enough to build pattern recognition. Nice features such as engine analysis or even play the engine from a position where a lesson stopped. One now only needs this app instead of seperate Chess King apps to run each course. Just buy the course you want from within this app. All your courses are in one place. Highly recommended. No glitches or bugs. Things work smoothly. Even a night mode.

A Google user

Good courses for everyone. However, there are some obstacles either with syncronization or with the advertisement. There are some things I have to pay twice (eg transferring from Android to Ultimate). Some (non-complete) guides are only on the internet page of the Chess King. As all courses are in this app together now, it would also be comfortable to have something like the list "My Courses" or "My Favorite Courses" in this app.

nachitalsya knig

Chess components are great, the best chess learning app, but there's an issue with syncing and there is space to improve usability and interface. 1. Progress is synced only after the next launch of the app on that device where you've solved new puzzles or in case of manual tapping the Sync button before closing the app. Why not add automatic synchronization not only when the app starts, but also when it closes? 2. Progress is not always synced between devices when you resolve a poorly solved puzzle to a better evaluation (i.e. from yellow to green), please fix that. 3. Please add options to manage types of pop-up on-screen notifications separately: some of them are useless and annoying (regarding doubtful ELO rating after each puzzle), some are useful (24-hour period for score revision, syncing, level change etc). Or just add the option to turn ELO rating and all rating-related notifications off. 4. When almost all puzzles in a chapter are solved, the number of remaining unsolved or poorly solved puzzles cannot be seen on the right of the chapter progress bar: they just don't fit the progress bar. 5. Please make more distinguishable color code in the Progress bar and in All tasks screen. Now it is difficult to tell dark-green from green in night mode and it is almost impossible to tell light-green from olive-green in light mode. Why not use bright red and yellow colors in light mode too?? 6. Please add more solid color and wood-based board themes & more classic clean piece sets – all those Fluffy/Purple/Brick/Marble themes & Aquarium/Fragmented/Military sets are creepy and off-putting, so there's not much to choose from. 7. In Notation, why is the font color of alternative correct moves the same as the font color of incorrect moves? I suggest that correct move sequence was black, alternative correct move variations were blue, user's incorrect variations were red, and opponent's incorrect variations were orange. Thus it would be much easier to read the notation after solving a puzzle. 8. As for colored arrows over the board, now they are difficult to read. Green, violet and red are illogical, specky and misleading. I suggest using different shades of two colors: one for white moves, one for black moves. For example, the 1st white move would be bright green, the 1st black move would be bright violet, the 2nd white move would be dimmer green, the 2nd black move would be dimmer violet etc. 9. Please add arrow buttons to the mode of solving the puzzle. When solution is a multi-move, sometimes it is useful to return a move (even a correct one!) to see how the position has changed. 10. When a puzzle is solved, the Back-to-the-start and Forward-to-the-end buttons are located in different places of the screen depending on whether Engine Analysis is turned on or off. Please locate the Back-to-the-start and Forward-to-the-end buttons in the same places in all modes. 11. If Auto next puzzle option is turned on AND a puzzle is solved AND user taps on the Back-to-previous-puzzle button – imo there should be final position on the screen, with all correct moves made, game info shown, engine analysis available. 12. Please add board rotation button in other modes besides Animation. 13. How to reverse showing the overlapping window with the message 'Alternative line finished. Click on the board to continue solving' if that checkbox is accidentally checked? Isn't it better to move this to Settings? 14. Please add the option of choosing the number of variations to the engine settings. 15. When a puzzle is solved with some incorrect moves, why are they not shown in Analysis mode? It is useful to learn engine evaluation of the moves you tried to solve the puzzle, and it would be easier if they remain on the screen when you turn on the engine. 16. It is commonly-accepted to specify mate in 2 as '#2'. Why did you decide to change it to '2#'? Thank you for your attention, I hope my review and suggestions would help make the app flawless. I am also sending an e-mail with some screenshots.

A Google user

Good app, but it would be even better if Android version did not "steal" space at the left and right side of the board (contrary to iPhone version, which uses all width of the screen). My phone is Xiaomi mi max 2, it is wide, but no matter of that you do not use all the width - putting buttons at the left and right side (which could be put below the board), therefore the board is small.