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Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles) – Board Game Review
Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles) is a Board/Education/Puzzle game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 27th October 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 82+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles) Stand Out
The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your device in solving problems from practical games. If you a beginner but already know how to mate in 1 move, you have to move on and learn how to attack a king and give mate in 2 moves! This course includes 19 000 exercises from masters games. In every exercise you will have to find a best continuation for an attack against the king. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. A great number of exercises makes the course an excellent tool for quick training both beginners and club players.
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:
- King + queen
1.1. Level 1
1.2. Level 2
1.3. Level 3
1.4. Level 4 - King + rook
2.1. Level 1
2.2. Level 2
2.3. Level 3
2.4. Level 4
2.5. Level 5 - King + bishop
- King + knight
- King + pawn
5.1. Volume 1 - Queen
6.1. Level 1
6.2. Level 2
6.3. Level 3
6.4. Level 4
6.5. Level 5
6.6. Level 6 - Queen + rook
7.1. Level 1
7.2. Level 2
7.3. Level 3
7.4. Level 4
7.5. Level 5
7.6. Level 6
7.7. Level 7 - Queen + bishop
8.1. Level 1
8.2. Level 2
8.3. Level 3
8.4. Level 4
8.5. Level 5
8.6. Level 6
8.7. Level 7 - Queen + knight
9.1. Level 2
9.2. Level 3
9.3. Level 4
9.4. Level 5
9.5. Level 6
9.6. Level 7
9.7. Level 8
9.8. Level 9 - Queen + pawn
10.1. Level 1
10.2. Level 2
10.3. Level 3
10.4. Level 4
10.5. Level 5
10.6. Level 6 - Rook
11.1. Level 1
11.2. Level 2
11.3. Level 3
11.4. Level 4
11.5. Level 5
11.6. Level 6
11.7. Level 7 - Rook + bishop
12.1. Level 2
12.2. Level 3
12.3. Level 4
12.4. Level 5
12.5. Level 6
12.6. Level 7 - Rook + knight
13.1. Level 2
13.2. Level 3
13.3. Level 4
13.4. Level 5
13.5. Level 6
13.6. Level 7
13.7. Level 8
13.8. Level 9
13.9. Level 10 - Rook + pawn
14.1. Level 2
14.2. Level 3
14.3. Level 4
14.4. Level 5
14.5. Level 6 - Bishop
15.1. Level 1
15.2. Level 2
15.3. Level 3
15.4. Level 4
15.5. Level 5
15.6. Level 6 - Bishop + knight
16.1. Level 2
16.2. Level 4
16.3. Level 5
16.4. Level 6
16.5. Level 7
16.6. Level 8
16.7. Level 9 - Bishop + pawn
17.1. Level 1
17.2. Level 2
17.3. Level 3
17.4. Level 4
17.5. Level 5
17.6. Level 6 - Knight
18.1. Level 2
18.2. Level 3
18.3. Level 4
18.4. Level 5
18.5. Level 6
18.6. Level 7
18.7. Level 8 - Knight + pawn
19.1. Level 2 - Pawn
- Any piece checkmates
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mate in 2 (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 2 (Chess Puzzles) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mate in 2 (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:
We use this mostly for our two daughters (6 &9). Its a little daunting for them to navigate on their own, but once we set the parameters, its a great tool to keep them keen on the road or when we dont want to run book drills with them. Nice addition to chest of tools in creating the next Magnus.
Hundreds of entertaining puzzles to drive the lessons home.
There are thousands of puzzles, which is great, but it takes forever to get through them all and theres no way to mix in what youve already tried into what youre working on next to ensure the learning sticks the way this program is laid out. Theres no way, that we can see, to even review just the puzzles you got wrong or just the puzzles you got partially wrong. Theres no way to build a randomized set of problems from multiple sections to use as a warmup. You can only build a randomized set of problems from the same section. You may as well just go to that section… This app is best if you just want to practice one specific mate in 2 tactic, like queen+ rook mate in two, hundreds of times in a row. Or ALL the types of mates at once. Very repetitive and tedious. Not if you want to try 5 or 6 types of mates in a sample of 100 in a quick practice session. You have to choose all mates rather than a group of specific mates youve been working on. And not if you want to practice just the puzzles you missed. Its also not clear how this mate in 2 app is different than the previous chess king mate in 2 app.
Deberan hacerlo gratis los que cometan error que esperen hasta el otro da para seguir de lo contrario que paguen para continuar l mismo da.
Really awesome drills! If you are a kinesthetic learner this app will be so much more useful to you than following along in a book.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 43.67 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: Board, Education | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC