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Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles) – Puzzle Game Review
Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles) is a Puzzle/Board/Education game from CHESSQUEEN INC, first launched in 6th July 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 253+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles) Stand Out
This course includes more than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves. You will have to use your fantasy and precise calculation in order to find a correct way of attacking the king. After going through this course you are sure to improve your skills and abilities considerably and will not miss an opportunity to employ a nice little combination in a practical game of your own. The program is intended both for club players and intermediate players. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels.
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
• 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
- King+queen
- King+rook
- King+bishop
- King+knight
- King+pawn
- Queen
- Queen+rook
- Queen+bishop
- Queen+knight
- Queen+pawn
- Rook
- Rook+bishop
- Rook+knight
- Rook+pawn
- Bishop
- Bishop+knight
- Bishop+pawn
- Knight
- Knight+pawn
- Pawn
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mate in 3-4 (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 3-4 (Chess Puzzles) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mate in 3-4 (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:
Doesnt matter if youre new to chess or not this app is. A great tool to assist you in bettering your end game.
Tons of chess puzzles to solve we have learned a lot from this.
It took us a while but we did finish all of them. Then went back and did the 15 that we had totally missed and was able to do them (some with a little help). We definitely improved our skill and ability from doing this exercise, and it was also a great way to pass the time. We look forward to going through more of the Chess King apps. Jim.
We have found these set ups for the end game to help us with our metal game to set up the mate. The set up are always well thought out and the hints, Keep frustration low while learning. MSG.
Much tougher than you might think.
Anything greater than mate? No. Mate wins you more games and this app gets you thinking in the right direction to get quicker mates.
This program has taught us many different checkmate options And ability to sacrifice in order to better position for the objective.
Absolutely love this program! Entertaining and challenging.
Hundreds of chess puzzles that are not only entertain on their own but also help you gradually improve your game.
Its nice to find a collection of problems thats challenging but not head shakingly difficult. The usual collections that start with mate in 2 and end in blistering 17+ move problems, usually stop us at around 5 or 6 moves. This collection, we will complete. There are about 2000 problems so enough material for a while. You can get an idea of the level from the demo version. Highly recommended.
A couple of times in test we found ourselves scratching our head on the number of moves your machine needed to take for checkmate over ours. The last test we did only took two of our moves, but errored. So, we allowed the machine to animate the right moves which took four, with our pieces winding up exactly the same in two moves without risks. This time we took screenshots to study the round. Sure enough, two was all that was needed. Waz up.
Hmm, why does a chess puzzle need to copy the clipboard contents each time it opens? And why does this app not have a privacy policy? Absent some good answers, suggest deleting this app.
This app is actually quite nice. Allows us to run scenarios without having to commit to a full game. Stoked.
Will be buying full version. For now the starter version is great. Good variety of challenges.
Very nice app to keep those skills sharp.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 42.61 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, Board | Developer: CHESSQUEEN INC