Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles)

More than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves!

Mate in 3-4: Chess Puzzles for Improvement

"Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles)" is an Android app featuring over 2500 chess exercises focused on achieving checkmate in 3 or 4 moves. Designed for club and intermediate players, this app enhances tactical skills through practical game scenarios. It includes hints, explanations, and interactive features to monitor your progress, making it an effective learning tool in the Chess King Learn series. Test out the free version to experience its comprehensive teaching approach.
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Version: 3.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-26)
Creation date: 2015-12-03
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  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

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, middlegame, 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
♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. King + queen
2. King + rook
3. King + bishop
4. King + knight
5. King + pawn
6. Queen
7. Queen + rook
8. Queen + bishop
9. Queen + knight
10. Queen + pawn
11. Rook
12. Rook + bishop
13. Rook + knight
14. Rook + pawn
15. Bishop
16. Bishop + knight
17. Bishop + pawn
18. Knight
19. Knight + pawn
20. Pawn
21. Any piece checkmates

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Nice collection of puzzles
  • Good teaching tool for learning chess
  • User-friendly interface
  • Engaging and educational puzzles
  • Allows for reviewing and replaying past puzzles
Cons
  • Slow piece movement and no pre-move option
  • Inability to choose puzzle difficulty or unlock advanced puzzles easily
  • Penalization for wrong moves without credit for correct ones
  • Advertisements in the free version
  • Confusing opponent moves in some puzzles
Most mentioned
  • Good quality puzzles
  • Easy to use and learn from mistakes
  • Issues with scoring and ratings system
  • Need for more analysis tools
  • Desire for greater access to advanced puzzles
User reviews
Very nice app. Gr8 experience. Keep up the good work !
by Manoj Mathai, 2024-12-07

Once I figured out the replay/restart options, it has become a very good tutorial ...to go back to previous puzzles or to study why the opponent would respond with one move vs. another ~~~😎 intermediate recreational septuagenarian
by Mark A. Braley, 2024-11-11

Works well and no real fuss with ads.
by Neil, 2024-11-07
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