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Chess Puzzles – Classic Modern – Board Game Review
Chess Puzzles – Classic Modern is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from Gano Technologies LLC, first launched in 6th February 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 56+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chess Puzzles – Classic Modern Stand Out
An amazing collection of chess puzzles!
Beginners and experienced players alike will enjoy solving the large number of chess puzzles included in this app. All of the puzzles were carefully chosen from actual games or are compositions inspired by actual games throughout history! (1802 to modern times)
The app includes a total of 1177 interactive puzzles!!
- 222 mate in 2 puzzles
- 490 mate in 3 puzzles
- 465 mate in 4 puzzles
The object is to finish each puzzle by forcing a checkmate in a given number of moves. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Other features include:
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Timing clock
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Lots of options: 7 chess piece sets and 7 different colors schemes including wood and marble.
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Social: Leaderboards to compare the number of puzzles you have solved with your friends and other players. Facebook integration – including the ability to post your progress and ask your friends for help on a puzzle.
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Universal app – works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad!
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chess Puzzles – Classic Modern is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd January 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Latest iOS and iPadOS Compatibility updates
- Fixed puzzles 727 and 745 (incorrectly identified as mate in 4 and are #6 and #5 respectively)
- Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Chess Puzzles – Classic Modern is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Chess Puzzles – Classic Modern 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:
Lots of puzzles; hints and solutions. We have enjoyed this app for over a year. One issue: lately it has been crashing.
Great app. Good practice for a noob like us.
We only wish it would have the capability to play in landscape mode.
Neurons that fire together wire together. Great puzzles drawn from classic games to strengthen those cortical pathways.
The puzzles are great. When we need a hint or to see the solution the animations are so fast its hard to tell what happened, a minor and easily fixed complaint. Highly recommend.
A very well thought out and very well designed app. A pleasure to use b.
Really good app and even better with the bundle.
Zuketort vs Schutz 1869 – 6? Rotterdam vs Leiden 1896 – 5? Did the two top players hack the game or leader board.
Great app.we really love it.deserves 5 stars or more. China.
If you want lots of quick, challenging little chess puzzles, this is one of the best around! There 1177 of them to be exact. It's great practice! You won't be disappointed.
These definitely make us a better player.
This, like other similar chess-puzzle apps, is helpful to one's game when the move sequence is analyzed. Great to aid tactics and strategic sequencing.
We're really enjoying this app. However, a few of the puzzles come up with different moves for the opponent than the official solution. We should have kept notes, but as we recall, at least one puzzle had an escape from mate in three.
We love the app…but our brain is having a hard time overcoming the Puzzel.
Someone has done a great job to collect all these amazing, entertaining puzzles. A must have app for most of the chess fans who want to develop their skill.
It's fun to sit with our iPhone or iPad and work our through the puzzles. We're delighted.
Of the chess apps this is one of the best.
Doing puzzles like this really improves our game. Our only gripe is that when you get a hint, the interface just skips right ahead to the completed response from the opponent, so you have to rewind each time to really see what happened. Not enough of a pain to knock a star off, though. Well worth 99 cents if you're into chess.
Not much else to say. Great puzzles. Good user interface. Worth the money.
We're getting back into chess so we can play our kids. This game really helps us relearn our end game.
Amazing collection of puzzles that have been a lot of fun to solve and have also improved our skills.
Enjoying this app it's a good eu to take a look at the game thru the masters eyes if didn't we know these moves had already been made would never see some of these solutions.
This app is totally cool………..All these puzzles giving us tons of practice and turning us into a chess grandmaster. Who could ask for more?……….And it's such a humongus amount. Wow!…………And they not too hard, nor too easy. Just right. We hate hard puzzles, and we hat easy puzzles…………….This is just right. Nice.
We don't have to explain what chess problems are, they aren't like your marriage–they can be solved.
Continual crash. App closes in middle of solution. IPad 3 128 gig.
Just the thing for our game, anemic at best after a long layoff.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.4
- Size: 17.86 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Gano Technologies LLC]()
Last updated: 2nd January 2024 | Genre: Board, Education | Developer: Gano Technologies LLC