Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 02:29 pm
ChessVisionDrills – Strategy Game Review
ChessVisionDrills is a Strategy/Board game from Michael anderson, first launched in 10th December 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 11+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes ChessVisionDrills Stand Out
This game challenges you to find forks and skewers in chess. It's not a chess playing game but rather a drill to help you recognize common chess tactics quickly. Use it everyday to become a stronger chess player.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, ChessVisionDrills is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Fixed the score to update after each round.
Download & Availability
ChessVisionDrills is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get ChessVisionDrills on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The instructions are either in correct or the developer hasnt vetted the exercises. The game is great concept which increases familiarity with the symmetry of the positions e.g. We can attack from above and below but the full extent of the attacks are not realized.
We wrote a salty review last time because it was not compatible with new devices and the timer was unrealistic. Now this game is one of our favorites to pass the time. Thank you to the Devs! Highly recommend.
This app has a great idea and it was a good start towards what we were looking for. Having a way to practice board vision exercises is not found in other apps even though its a critical skill for developing your chess game. This app misses out in several areas. First, there are more types of drills that should be included. Board coordinate drills and other pattern recognition drills. In addition, it has a short timer making it nearly impossible for beginners. It should be adjustable. It also shouldnt be built with only three strikes. The point is to drill. It would be nicer if it was timed but not as a timeout but like other chess drills, in that you get more points if you do it faster. The whole idea is to not make someone win or lose, but constantly improve. The app does not rotate to horizontal on the iPad. For those of us that prefer the horizontal orientation (keyboard users), this is a big inconvenience. Further, the app does not let you disable sounds, set timers, or setup anything. This app works, so we gave it a couple stars. But to PAY for an app that lacks so many features … Well … Its just not a good value at any price. We love paying for apps to help developers. But we want to get features for premium apps. This should be an ad supported app since it is such a feature-free program. One star for being a unique and valuable training idea. One star because it works and doesnt crash. If this is version 1.0, then perhaps by version 5.0 this app will have the refinements making it a worthy chess training tool.
We love this. Finally an app to drill vision. So important and often overlooked. Our eight year old and we are competing for high score! Thank you.
One complaint, some moves are marked as wrong inconsistently, we.e. Moves that can be blocked by interposition of the opponents piece, but then can be taken on second move…sometimes these are flagged as good and sometimes wrong, be consistent.
The visual style look like something our kid would make. No settings so cant disable annoying sounds. Pity because otherwise could be good.
Start button is blocked by a vertical line. Cant start the drill at any level.
We were hoping this app would be great as there are no other chess drills we know of in App Land. But this app misses correct answers and calls them incorrect. It's too bad. The developers should return to the drawing board and refine what would have been a good chess drill. UPDATE. Just figured out that an answer is marked incorrect if the forked,or skewered piece can make a follow-up move to a square that aborts the fork or skewer.
Nice app version of Mazas Concentric Square drills with a little added randomness. Perfect for iPad. We like that the opponents follow-up moves are taken into account which requires that you look deeper and recognize the illusion patterns that dont win anything. Scoring can be a bit mysterious sometimes, but its not important to us. Would have been nice to know that squares trapping the knight on the edge are counted. The app should be titled Forks, Skewers, and Traps, or perhaps simply Win the Piece. Overall very nice for improving chess vision and great as a warm-up before a chess game.
Great trainer, we couldn't find any errors or mistakes.
Love it. Know it will improve our game. Would like to be able to turn off the sound but not an issue.
This app helped improve our quickness in finding pins and skewers and our speed game has never been better.
We're only giving it 2 stars because the program misses skewers and forks and incorrectly marks correct forks and skewers as wrong. A major issue in our opinion – otherwise we would have given it 4-5 stars. Pleases fix the bugs. We'd live to up rate the product since its the only App we've found that runs the drills we've been looking for.
Sweet app. Makes learning chess tactics fun! It's really helped improve our game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.8
- Size: 2.59 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Michael anderson
Last updated: 17th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Board | Developer: Michael anderson