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Mate in 1 move (Chess Puzzles) – Puzzle Game Review
Mate in 1 move (Chess Puzzles) is a Puzzle/Education/Board game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 5th June 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 172+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mate in 1 move (Chess Puzzles) Stand Out
If you are a beginner, you should practice much to mate in one move. This course provides excellent material for this training. The big number of exercises (2500) covers different methods of mating. Many of them is an excellent tool for speed training even for stronger players. This is a rare course that is intended even for players with USCF rating of 600. Even if you only study and solve 10% of the exercises, you will learn a huge number of mating patterns and probably never miss a mate in one again!
This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.
With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.
The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.
Advantages of the program:
• High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness
• You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
• Different levels of complexity of the tasks
• Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems
• The program gives hint if an error is made
• For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown
• You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process
• Test mode with flexible settings
• Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises
• The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet
• The application does not require an internet connection
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
- Few-figured positions
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Any piece checkmates - Many-figured positions
2.1. Rook checkmates
2.2. Queen checkmates
2.3. Bishop checkmates
2.4. Knight checkmates
2.5. Pawn checkmates
2.6. Any piece checkmates - Complicated positions
3.1. Checkmates with help of the King
3.2. Underpromotions
3.3. Mate with pawn promotion
3.4. Discovered check
3.5. Double check - Any piece checkmates
4.1. Volume 1
4.2. Volume 2
4.3. Volume 3
4.4. Volume 4
4.5. Volume 5
4.6. Volume 6
4.7. Volume 7
4.8. Volume 8
4.9. Volume 9
4.10. Volume 10
4.11. Volume 11
4.12. Volume 12
4.13. Volume 13
4.14. Volume 14
4.15. Volume 15
4.16. Volume 16
4.17. Volume 17
4.18. Volume 18
4.19. Volume 19
4.20. Volume 20
4.21. Volume 21
4.22. Volume 22
4.23. Volume 23
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mate in 1 move (Chess Puzzles) is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th January 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• App is updated for iPhone X
• New home screen
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Mate in 1 move (Chess Puzzles) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mate in 1 move (Chess Puzzles) 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:
Beginning players are well-advised to solve as many checkmate in one exercises as they can find until basic checkmate patterns are instantly perceived. Experienced players also may find such exercises useful. This app has the most generous number of exercises that Ive found, sequences them well for maximum training, and functions smoothly. It is our top recommendation.
Basic mates – good for novices. We'd give it 5 stars except for it's inability to restore purchase.
Very well thought UI, and the method of presentation will teach you what you need to learn as long as you honestly follow the steps the way they are given, and on a regular basis. We have used several full versions of sets, & feel that some of them could be comined into one set for the topic that was given the set, instead of creating more sets than necessary.
1) sample shows how well the program performs; 2) app allows playing the position vs. Computer – which is essential & missing from other apps; 3) large # of exercises; and 4) good setting variations.
Simply the best chess training materials available on iOS. We have waited for years for these on our phone and am very pleased with all the apps.
It lags while transitioning to the next puzzle, and no Gestures integration. Id like to swipe back and forth between puzzles for example. Much better than reaching out for the "Next" button on top of the screen, particularly on larger displays.
Awesome app and interface. Great puzzles and instructional material.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 41.73 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [CHESSQUEEN INC]()
Last updated: 18th January 2018 | Genre: Puzzle, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC