Mate in 1 (Chess Puzzles)

2500 chess exercises to train mate in 1 move. Easy? Very useful!

Mate in 1 - Chess Puzzles & Training

"Mate in 1 (Chess Puzzles)" is an Android app featuring 2500 chess exercises focused on training players to identify and execute mates in one move. Ideal for beginners and beneficial for all skill levels, the app offers a unique coaching experience with high-quality, double-checked examples. Users can track their progress, receive hints, and practice various mating patterns, ensuring they never miss a mate in one again. Explore diverse tasks and improve your chess knowledge effortlessly!
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Version: 3.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-30)
Creation date: 2015-12-30
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  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

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, 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. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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

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
  • Fun and engaging chess puzzles that help in learning
  • Good for beginners and those looking to improve checkmating skills
  • Progressively challenging problems that enhance pattern recognition
  • Great value for the price with a large number of puzzles
Cons
  • Annoying ads that can disrupt the experience
  • Some reviewers struggled with the rating system after making mistakes
  • Hints could be better in their delivery and effectiveness
Most mentioned
  • Helpful for improving chess skills
  • Wide variety of puzzles for different skill levels
  • User-friendly interface after familiarization
User reviews
Great! Lots of fun and you learn a lot even though it's just one move.
by Robert Brown, 2024-08-28

Awesome app... Very helpful to learn easy to difficult mating pattern with themes... Easy to use and very helpful for students coaches both
by Mayur Vispute, 2023-12-29

Finally I can practice memorizing mate positions instead of calculating every time. These start with permutations of endgame positions, so a great intuition trainer
by Levs Dolgovs, 2022-04-20
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