Last updated on October 17th, 2025 at 02:30 am
Chess Trainer
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Chess Trainer! Developed by the innovative team at Simon Louchart, this Board game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 2nd December 2010, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 12th July 2019.
Are you a fan of Board, Entertainment, or Strategy games? Then Chess Trainer is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Chess Trainer
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How Much Does Chess Trainer Cost?
Good news! You can download Chess Trainer on your iOS device absolutely free!
Chess Trainer Release Date
Eager to know when Chess Trainer first graced the App Store? It was launched on 2nd December 2010.
When Was Chess Trainer Last Updated?
The latest version of Chess Trainer was updated on 12th July 2019, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Chess Trainer?
To get started with Chess Trainer, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Chess Trainer
"Good work, uh, tremendous work done by developers. it’s really cool. I installed this app for the younger brother, I hope this will help him to learn play." Alexburtnik
"Amazing app i am improving my chess skills day by day with the help of this app. <3" iphoneipadfan
Do you want to learn Chess or improve at Chess ?
Do you want to have fun, solve Chess puzzles, and compare your ranking with friends ?
Then you have found the right app ! Download Chess Trainer, solve thousands of puzzles, read hours of interactive lessons written by masters and grandmasters, and, most of all, have fun !
LEARN CHESS
The "Learn" section contains 3 lessons that will teach you Chess from the basic rules to basic strategic knowledge. At the end, you will no more be a beginner, but an intermediate player
IMPROVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHESS
Learn the strategic principles behind the right moves. Our "Learn" section contains various thematic lessons to help you improve specific points of your play.
IMPROVE YOUR TACTICAL PLAY
Improve your tactical play with more than 2500 tactic puzzles, ordered by theme (opening, middlegame, endgame, problems) and difficulty (from beginner to expert). The Elo graph keeps track of your performance.
*awarded "App of the year 2013" by Chess club live, the leading Chess group on Facebook with 150.000+ members
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What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Chess Trainer updated on 12th July 2019:
Bug fixes
User Reviews on Chess Trainer
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Chess Trainer below:
This app is very complete. It includes the clock, which is nice but could be optional. With so many other chess apps available, we suspect that very few people are willing to spend $25 to activate all the lessons.
It doesn’t even explain anything. It just plops you right into a game you know nothing a bout. So stupid.
We like playying chess,this is a fun game.A good application.
We’re improving our knowledge to best performance on chess. Very easy to understand.
Uh , tremendous work has been done by developers . It’s really cool . We installed this app for the younger brother , we hope this will help him to learn to play .
Amazing app we are improving our chess skills day by day with the help of this app. <3.
It’s a very good app to train, we like it.
Good app, good content. Purchase content in bulk; it’s addictive but very helpful.
We love this app because it has excellent tactics in different areas that has helped us to develop a keen eye to recognize tactical solutions to different problems. The trick is to go over them constantly until it becomes part of you. The lessons are another plus because they are tailored for the club player. It is helping us to look at the board from the perspective of an expert. We’re also learning to play with a plan, but it is important to repeat the lessons as often as possible in order to understand some of the complexities of chess positions. On the other hand, we would love to see an improvement in the quality of the boards and have the ability to choose different kind of pieces. By the way, the prices for different packages are very reasonable.
Lost all our puzzle progress on update :(. We do not really want to redo hundreds of puzzles we’ve already done. Needs a way to browse the puzzles and review previously solved ones. Despite that there is a lot of concise delicious chess learning here.
The program is an overall good program that will help train your eyes to watch the whole board and also helps you remember a certain tactical ideas and combinations so in all it’s a very good program to use for training.
Latest update just crashes immediately after signing in. Also why do we have to sign in. Please fix this.
First off, we love this app. Great puzzles by category and fantastic interactive lessons. New update requires an email or Facebook account, which we think should be optional. Also, it crashed immediately when we choose the email option. After deleting the app and reinstalling it, we could finally sign in. But the app crashes when we try to view the new lesson that was added. Whoever came up with this update should admit they made a mistake and fix it ASAP. NO MANDATORY EMAIL.
We’ve spent good money on this and they changed it to MANDATORY must give an email address to use the app you already bought and pride for. Which is bad enough bit it CRASHES AFTER you type in all the info. Bad bad bad. Pathetic QA. Stay away.
This app is great but neglects the defensive side of chess. We would love to see 4 play modules added. Some with simple defense problems where a piece is threatened, and others with advanced threat problems, that address not just threat of mate, but more complex loss of material as well. This is a great app as is, but would be the best available if it addressed the defensive side of chess with about 600 defense puzzles.
A bunch of opening, middlegame, and endgame puzzles, as well as mini-tutorials that focus on various aspects of the game. A good deal of fun.
We’re pretty new and this helps.
The app has great info and has good examples and step by step stuff. You scroll through moves and it explains each one But leaves you hanging as a lot is "coming soon" for the past year.
Unusual to find a chess app this good!
Extremely helpful and interactive! Now we know how to play chess!
Great app to learn chess. Explains rules, theories, openings, middle games, end gams, tactics and more to learn the game. Gives you a hands-on experience to teach you the concepts given and does a great job explaining how to apply the concepts. We have already made a few purchases to extend the content. However, $22 to unlock all of the content seems pretty steep. We think $10 to unlock all of the content at once would be fair.
Good app until the last update ruined it. All it does now is crash. After a single chess problem! Not sure why it hasn’t been fixed, but until it is, it is like buying something that is broken.
We were looking forward to learning a bunch of new things about chess until we learned that you only get the first lesson in each section. The rest of the lessons cost a dollar. They should’ve just made the app cost $1, instead of taunting you with the idea that it’s free. Very disappointed with this app and about to delete it.
This is the best chess app we own. Wish it was available on our Samsung galaxy tab too. Hope the d4 openings come out soon under the new Learn tab.
We had purchased In App Packs….. After the app upgrade… Those purchased packs did not show up. Please fix the issue…
Really love this app. We will recommend it anytime, every time. Our only problem is that we find it difficult t buy the new lessons that came with the December update.
Definitely helps playing skills of the novice.
Chess trainer is really good!!!
The app has the ability to be fantastic!! But it has a lot of bugs for now.. Pieces on board when there are not supposed to be .. Or no pieces on board at all .. We hope they get a patch out soon we’ve got a couple paid upgrades that are awesome!!!!
This app is loaded with bugs. It will give you a blank board sometimes and force you to resign. There are frequently multiple winning lines, but you get a huge penalty for picking the wrong winning move. Several times we’ve broken 2000 where you’re getting 3 points for a solution, and been met with a blank board costing us 34-45 points. DO NOT BUY THIS APP! We’ve had it for months and they still haven’t fixed it.
We give this App zero stars it’s not even worth one star. However they make you pick at least one. It wasn’t even worth the ten mins it took us to complete it. There are very severe bugs in this app. Many of the solutions have multiple ways of solving in equal or less moves while better protecting your pieces. Multiple scenarios give you mate where the king or other pieces can easily block or defend and change the tide against the attacker drastically. Do not use this if you are a novice, want to improve, or just want interesting scenarios. This is a very sloppy and poor excuse for a chess app.
Fix the bugs: empty boards and pieces that are displayed that really aren’t there.
Don’t be fooled , the app only comes with 50 easy problems. You will have to purchase the each additional pack. Not worth the price, will be $30 – $40 before you are done.
One of the best training chess games to on enhance your game.
Ok, we finished the packs that we liked and when we reset in order to re-solve them, some (including our favorites) are no longer available and it won’t even let us buy them again?! Update: Never mind, we just deleted and reinstalled and everything is fine. It gave us everything back.
- Love the Boston terrier 2. Our chess is improving 3. Love to take a work break and just look at 1 tactic! 4. We play on the bus.
We enjoyed the limited free problems but after paying for content we are dissapointed as it is buggy. Leaving pieces on the board between problems that are not supposed to be there and acting odd after pawn promotions. Must we uninstall and reinstall to replay the free problems?
Love it! It helped us when we picked up the game after a long hiatus.
This is a great way to get a few more practice cycles in while waiting for your wife in the grocery store.
Demo ver is short, but it’s very good.
All different skill levels and possible scenarios, we can’t wait until there are more packs!! Only downside; in the solution screen, when a pawn make it’s to the back row, the choice of piece screen doesn’t go away. Even the next time you check a solution.
When you try to view the solution to games that involve promoting a pawn it breaks and the rest of the solutions are messed up and you have to close the app. Other than that, awesome.
We bought this are other packages so our daughter can practice, she still has 68 problems to solve and now, she cannot access them, it show that we have to buy the package again. Her user ID is Shrake and she has 2096 points, now she cannot continue, since she cannot access the other packages either. What’s going on? We paid for them.
The puzzles obviously haven’t been tested because a lot of the puzzles are just plain wrong or have multiple solutions that weren’t seen by the programmer. Also, you can only do each puzzle once. We can’t pay for puzzles we can only play once and then no more. This is could have neen a great app, but their version of it is lame.
We loved using this app, however the current version will not load on our phone. It crashes immediately.
Totally improved our board tactics.
We are a rookie, and found this app easy to work with…