Chess Tactics for Beginners User Reviews

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Lenn

Anybody who wants to learn/improve in chess needs this! I went over this whole thing at least 4 times and dramatically improved

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Seems good so far

Great Tactics for all levels of beginners

Yeet

Great Learning Tool

I recently rediscovered chess after many years. This is a great app if you what to learn all you can from, about, and with this fascinating game. It is the only non addictive game I know of and this offering is the best Iโ€™ve found for real learning.

No updates from developer. Possible spyware.

Chess content is great. Unfortunately the developer has neglected updating all its standalone apps since releasing it's Chess king app. No updates for many years now.
To top it off, this app (and most other standalone apps from this dev) copies whatever you have on your clipboard on app startup. This may well be an innocent bug which went unfixed since this app was neglected by its dev. It may also be an intentional invasion of privacy.
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Great and Terrible

As a relative novice, I really appreciate the lesson design. But the inability to shut off the blasted rating update after every single match is horrible. As one would expect, the lessons progress in difficulty which is very helpful. Watching my score drop after every single mistake, over and over and over, is the antithesis of helpful. Itโ€™s frustrating and demoralizing. Itโ€™s exactly enough to know when Iโ€™ve erred. Itโ€™s not necessary to constantly rub it in. We should be able to shut off the judge (instant rank updates) and just LEARN.

This punishment-centered approach is demonstrably inferior and unnecessary. Get rid of it, and this would be a four or five star app. I bought this to get better at chess, not to be constantly harangued for the very ignorance Iโ€™m working hard to address. Give us an option to SHUT IT OFF.
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Excellent.

Good app. No complaints. Quality problems.

Good for me!

Il

I Like This App

I Like This app.

Helped me improve

Itโ€™s a rich learning process but you get as much as you put into the training

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