Chess Tactics for Beginners
More than 1200 exercises quickly help beginners to form basic tactical vision
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4.65
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Offers a wide variety of puzzles for practice
- Helps beginners improve awareness and tactical thinking
- Provides hints and explanations for moves
- Free version is accessible and not overly aggressive with ads
- Allows replay of moves to learn from mistakes
Cons
- Puzzles can vary widely in difficulty without clear progression
- Some users report glitches and issues with app performance
- Lack of detailed explanations for why certain moves are correct or incorrect
- User interface can be confusing and not user-friendly
- Rating system is perceived as unfair, with heavy deductions for mistakes
Most mentioned
- Great for beginners
- Wide variety of puzzles
- Helpful hints and learning opportunities
- Issues with difficulty progression
- Confusing user interface
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-23 |  | | As far as a training aid, it's great. It gives you a chance to do it. If you don't get the puzzle, it highlights what you should be looking at. If you still don't get it, it provides more insight and tells you that it might be a move, but it's not the one or you don't get sufficient material with the exchange. Anyway, it's good at working you through. |
| 2024-10-08 |  | | Yeah this is very nice it has hundrends of puzzles. |
| 2024-09-26 |  | | Starting will the beginnings. It is helping to identify the chematr tactic. It also gives me a sense of awareness of what I need to improve. |
| 2023-11-26 |  | | Great for practice, lots of tactic puzzles. I took one point off because the goal sometimes comes off as confusing. For instance it might say "play to win" when you're going for the queen, or "play for decisive advantage" when you are playing for checkmate. In a way that's good because it makes you think but I feel like they may as well not provide a goal. Outside of that minor complaint it's a great app. |
| 2022-12-30 |  | | The puzzles are awesome, and am able to learn new techniques and approaches to the game of chess. I would say if there was more of an explanation for the good ans bad moves. Sometimes I can see why the moves were productive but there's always a few I don't understand and it's a tab bit frustrating. End in end for a free app that teaches people good tactics I have to give 5 starts 👍 |
| 2022-09-05 |  | | I don't think I'm learning anything from this approach. It's like playing with Bobby Fisher or Gary Kasparov. At my stage, I'm just trying to improve the game. Going from A to B, instead of jumping from A to Z. I probably have tried so far about a hundred or so exercises without noticing any improvement. Not having any clue for any given problem what should be my next move. I think I learn a great deal instead by playing against the computer with many different levels. |
| 2022-04-19 |  | | The puzzles go from too easy to way too difficult without any explanations. I'm a beginner and would like things to be more progressive. I would recommend this probably for intermediate players. |
| 2022-01-29 |  | | Puzzling move choices intended to teach integrated tactics with some really odd logic. Many times your more powerful pieces are sacrificed for questionable gain. Good pinning exercises but the problems show pieces in very, very odd, uncoordinated and unlikely positions to begin with, leaving me to question the validity of the excercise. Also, sometimes when you could take the opponent piece with perhaps 3 of your pieces, the one the exercise selects doesn't make any sense. Not sure why ? |
| 2021-12-13 |  | | At 7 hours on tests, my rating is falling steadily. Yes, mastery comes with time but problem is there is no hint/help with how to assess positions for whatever it is an advanced player looks for. Is there a method or do they see every possibility and their outcomes? I also don't understand the meaning of the color-coded arrows, so the hints don't help me correct my moves. AFTER the solution is revealed, then I can see why it is correct, but have not learned a generally applicable technique |
| 2021-04-29 |  | | EDIT 4/28/21: UNINSTALLED--too many glitches, WAY TOO MANY PERMISSIONS.// EDIT: 4/27 So far on "Capturing A Knight", three out of 23 times I was told my answer was wrong only to be shown that my answer WAS correct, but it was still marked as incorrect. This seems to be a glitch for this particular app.// Not for newbies. Great practice for folks who know the basics of chess (how to set up board; where pieces go, how they move, their value, e.t.c.). |
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