# Chess King - Learn to Play — user reviews > 322 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess King by Chess King, rated 4.80/5 from 2,490 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-king-learn-to-play/id1305823239/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-king-learn-to-play/id1305823239.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,122 · 4★ 249 · 3★ 58 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 48 ## What do users think of Chess King? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - ⭐ Best game in the world - 👍 Helpful for practice - 💡 Excellent tutorial and training content - 🎨 Well-chosen puzzles - 🧠 Improves pattern recognition and tactics - 🧠 Comprehensive chess learning - 🧠 Excellent training material - 🧠 Improves chess skills - 🧠 Superb tactics training **Cons** - 💰 Expensive - 🐛 Crashes on iPhone and iPad - 🐛 Buggy after recent update - 🤔 Confusing interface and lack of instructions - 🤔 Difficult for beginners - 🤔 Puzzles have issues - 🤔 Slow enemy animations - 🤔 Cannot reset progress - 🤔 Adds when playing paid sections - 🤔 Hard to use **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on M1 Macs - Doesnot work with iOS 13 dark mode - Doesnot show board and pieces in exercises - Cannot restore purchases - Doesnot sync progress across devices **Most requested features** - Add dark mode option - Improve user interface and design - Add more opening courses - Provide better explanations for moves - Allow resetting progress - Improve syncing across devices - Add online chess mode ## Newest reviews (15 of 322) ### 3/5 — Worth it for the Puzzles, outdated UI *2026-08-03* Love the puzzles on offer here. It’s worth purchasing the individual tactics courses/lessons. I highly recommend this app for improvement. The big downside is the outdated UI. While it looks like chess com it runs very slow (each piece slowly slides across the board when moved), coupled with the sometimes hard to navigate menus it doesn’t quite hit the peak it should. It would be nice if you could do puzzles at a faster rate, similar to something like puzzle rush or chess tempo but unfortunately we’ll have to take the courses and lessons as they are. Praying one day it gets an upgrade to something like the lichess engine which is open source. Still definitely an app worth having If you’re looking to improve your skill and rating ### 2/5 — Beginner *2026-04-18, version 5.7.0* This app does not help a total beginner. ### 3/5 — too hard *2026-03-31* its appaling the matches even on the lowest level are impossible and for the training you have hardly any excersises unless you pay ### 4/5 — Good tutorials *2026-02-19, version 5.6.0* I like the tutorials . Only thing not giving a 5 stars, is when you drag the pieces sometimes the whole screen drags like it’s going to go back a tutorial level. It’s really annoying bug ### 4/5 — Дарья *2026-02-07* Иногда выкидывает из задач ### 5/5 — Real Chess Trainer *2026-01-15, version 5.4.0* Have played Chess King for years. There are so many great versions of this game that allow you to practice opening moves, end games, and learn strategy and tactics. The few dollars spent are well worth it. ### 4/5 — chessking *2026-01-05, version 5.4.0* it is way too good btw ikr so its good isaid ### 4/5 — ❤️ *2026-01-05, version 5.4.0* I love learning chess on your app! ### 5/5 — 체서블로 전술왜품? *2025-12-15* 대황갓체스킹이 있는데; ### 5/5 — 5/5 *2025-12-12* This app has helped me a lot with my progress on chess. I’m an advanced junior player and trust me, the puzzles here provide you with many patterns that you can recognise in your own games. ### 5/5 — Вы лучшие! *2025-12-09* Господи мать вашу это просто секс какой-то! ### 5/5 — This is the best game in the world *2025-12-05, version 5.4.0* 5000 ### 5/5 — Genial, me encanta para practicar *2025-11-20, version 5.4.0* Me esta ayudando a aprender y practicar de manera sencilla y clara ### 4/5 — Experiencing problems opening the app on MacBook Pro 2018 (up to date OS in my system) *2025-11-11, version 5.4.0* When I launch the app i get an error report ! I was playing it for years the problem appeared suddenly. ### 5/5 — LouieDouie *2025-10-21, version 5.3.0* Yes ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nul *2026-08-28* On peut même pas faire de partie ### 1/5 — Бесплатно не поиграть *2026-03-29* Ходы тупые, без логического смысла ### 1/5 — Not for beginners *2026-02-24, version 5.6.0* Don’t buy if you are a beginner, poorly made, no real instruction, designed to cost you hundreds of dollars over time. Skip it. ### 1/5 — Please fix the sliding board *2026-01-25, version 5.5.0* I llove this app and use it often but the board now slides to the right whenever I try to move a piece and sends me back to the root menu. Did anyone test this? Please fix! ### 1/5 — дорого *2025-11-14, version 5.4.0* очень дорого всё. ### 1/5 — I can’t even learn to play this app *2025-08-16, version 5.1.1* I can’t learn to play chess cause I can’t figure out how to use it ### 1/5 — It does not explain anything *2025-06-07* Gave it a go but it literally doesn’t explain anything. Not why any move is good or bad. And the computers play is fixed at way too good. Can only see this as useful if you are already an excellent chess player and know almost exactly what to do. ### 1/5 — Otomatik Geçişi Sorunu *2025-01-29, version 4.7.0* Kendi kendine sorular arasında otomatik geçiş yapıyor. ### 1/5 — Chesskinglearn review *2024-11-21* Worst app ever ### 1/5 — You can’t do anything unless you purchase *2024-01-26, version 3.1.1* I am looking for no cost. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Привет *2026-08-05* Вау ### 5/5 — By far the best collection of chess tactics *2026-07-29* You do not need Chess.com or Lichess tactics. The curated problems for all of the courses are so much better, and the length/depth of variations will help train your calculation far better ### 5/5 — Искал медь, нашел золото. *2026-07-25* Организация занятий идеальная: теория, практика, тренировка. Занятия по уровням, визуализация траектории, понимание, сколько ещё осталось. Супер организация! Даже добавить нечего, разве что дизайн чуть осовременить. Спасибо за разработку! Подписался на 100 лет, доволен 😊. ### 5/5 — Minor issues. *2026-07-22, version 5.9.1* Love Chess King, but the lack of setting to adjust for under promotion deserves only a 4. ### 5/5 — Beginner Chess Tactics *2026-05-08, version 5.8.1* Phenomenal Chess App, digitizing and making puzzles from the Blokh and Ivashchenko available at your fingertips!! ### 5/5 — Great App & Customer Support *2026-05-08* This app has some of the best tactical courses and puzzles out there. Can definitely find something for any level. Plus, the customer support is amazing. I reported a bug in the app that was causing it to crash. They promptly responded and pushed an update within 24 hours. ### 5/5 — Так держать! *2026-04-24* Прекрасное приложение. Спасибо вам за ваш труд! ### 5/5 — Предложения по улучшению *2026-03-03* Пожалуй, лучшее что есть в апсторе на тему обучения шахматам (на русском - так точно). Да и анализ организован неплохо. Чего не хватает однозначно: 1) сохранение сыгранных партий для дальнейшей игры и анализа (истории игр) 2) Сохранение досок анализа и любых отдельных позиций в библиотеке для дальнейшей работы с ними. 3) В случае реализации этих фич, не забудьте добавить возможность рисовать произвольные стрелочки и области на доске для визуализации, а также писать комментарии к ходам. 4) Дебютный тренер доработать в плане глубины дерева, увеличить шрифт названий дебютов, добавить больше названий для вариантов дебютов (ну типа не заканчивать на giuoco piano, а указывать и названия продолжений и вариантов: central attack и т.д.). Прикрутить в дебютном дереве возможность сохранения любимых вариантов, добавления комментариев к ходам, возможность строить собственное дебютное дерево). В случае реализации этих возможностей - это будет супер шахматный-комбайн. Не идите по пути онлайна: личез и прочих монстров не догнать, а вот сделать крутую шахматную обучалку (уже реализовано) + шахматную студию-лабораторию анализа (осталось частично допилить) - такого нет ни у кого из конкурентов. P.S. И, да, поднимите доску на экране выше: сделайте верхнюю строку над доской тоньше, уберите из нее лишний текст (например, заголовок темы). Короче, оптимизируйте пространство, иначе на текстовые комментарии и запись ходов остается крайне мало места - неудобно и ненаглядно. И сделайте кнопки навигации по записи партии (вперед-назад) более доступными и удобными для нажатий, разнесите их чтобы не было ошибочных нажатий (в них попасть пальцем трудно). ### 5/5 — Шахматное приложение *2026-02-19* Отличное приложение! ### 5/5 — Entertaining *2026-01-26, version 5.5.0* Fun and passes time --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-06.*