# Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000) — user reviews > 29 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess Opening Lab (1400 by Chess King, rated 4.70/5 from 591 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-opening-lab-1400-2000/id1129879784/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-opening-lab-1400-2000/id1129879784.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 480 · 4★ 77 · 3★ 17 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Chess Opening Lab (1400? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Very convenient app - 👍 Ideal for practicing openings - 👍 Great for chess studies - 👍 Fantastic teaching tool - 👍 Excellent teacher - 👍 Unexpected gem - 👍 Great app - 👍 Very good app - 👍 Easy to follow interface - 👍 Animated moves are great - 👍 Quizzes with hints **Cons** - 😞 Barely any information - 😞 Difficult and confusing to work - 😞 No content - 😞 Useless - 😞 Scam - 😞 Rubbish app - 😞 Terrible interface - 😞 No login, purchase lost - 😞 Expensive - 😞 No content for openings **Commonly reported bugs** - Recorded moves not highlighted or disappear - White spot instead of recorded move - Have to buy full course multiple times - App forgets purchase - Animation speed doesn't decrease - Cannot skip or save variations - Too many variations distract from main line - Cannot replay exercise from beginning - App deletes and asks for repurchase **Most requested features** - More exercises for different openings - More examples of opening systems - Give 20 or more examples of different openings - Explanations in French - Reference books - Translation to Spanish - Translation to Turkish - Show colorful lines in animation - Include lines for Sicilian defense gambits ## Newest reviews (9 of 29) ### 5/5 — Unexpected gem! *2018-08-31* I really thought this would be just another tactics program, but it has some excellent teaching methods and quality chess opening scenarios. ### 5/5 — Прикольно *2017-08-31* Очень нравится мозг работает ### 5/5 — Класс! *2017-07-17* Интересные задачки ### 5/5 — Açılış *2017-05-22, version 0.9.8* Öğrenmek için olmazsa olmazlardan.. bir telefona ikibin kayme veren milletimin bir kitaba yirmi lira vermemesi ikinci dünya savaşı yıllarındaki yokluğun genetiğimize bir hediyesidir. ### 5/5 — Супер *2017-04-02* Может чуть дороговато, с другой стороны как обычная книга - зато с задачами и анимированная ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2017-01-17* Mostra a história de todas as aberturas e suas variantes e como jogá-las de modo melhor. Recomendo. ### 5/5 — So far so good *2017-01-12* Just started using and find it easy to use. Having animated moves is great. Love the quizzes that demonstrate the replies to incorrect answers and give hints as to the correct thought pattern while still not revealing the correct answer fully. ### 5/5 — beste chess app *2016-12-02* gratuliere zur beste chess app ### 5/5 — Traducción al español *2016-10-19, version 0.9.5* Sugiero si es posible su traducción al español Muchas gracias ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2023-10-12* Barely any information and very difficult and confusing to work ### 1/5 — No content *2022-08-04* Demonstrates how to gain your opponent’s confidence without giving them anything useful. Clever but useless. ### 1/5 — Scam *2020-07-05* It has nothing to do with opening. It all about tactics. Scammers. I will report this scam to apple. It just like other CT tactics. Do not fall for it folks. ### 1/5 — App seriously needs major upgrade. *2018-09-07* Animation speed doesn’t get decreased. Also need to show the various colourful lines in the animation which is available in the theory. The is no line regarding the scillian defence where white refutes to play the Sicilian defence.specially C3, Grand Prix and other gambit lines. ### 1/5 — Абсурд *2017-10-31* Уважаемый разработчик, скажите, почему я должен еще раз покупать ваше приложение, однажды уже купив андроид-версию? Ваше приложение одинаково по содержанию на обеих платформах. По вашей логике получается, что я должен покупать программу для каждого андроид-девайса. Я скачал, зашел под своим аккаунтом , в чем проблема? ### 1/5 — Rubbish app *2016-09-23* I just bought this app for £5.50 My son Delet the app by mistake So when I try to reinstall it They ask me to pay another £5.50 I lost my money for no reason ### 2/5 — Bugs, useless *2020-07-14* I have had to “buy full course” three times because there is no log in and it seems to forget conveniently Recent opening version is awful relative to chess base It misses multiple important variations and openings ( eg no London System) Not sure how the teaching is any better ### 2/5 — Middlegame Lab *2017-10-04* As far as I can tell, no Chess King software actually teaches openings or explains the ideas/strategy behind them. Their apps (and PC software) automatically play through 10-15 moves and then ask you for a best move or two, and then automatically play through several more moves and tell you that you've completed an exercise. They also group exercises alphabetically by the openings' and variations' names (except for "Rare Variations," which for some reason is at the very top of the list) rather than by moves or even commonality, presumably assuming that everyone who uses their opening app already knows the openings. Woe to the beginner who downloads this app and learns the Hungarian opening before the Ruy Lopez. Plus, Chess Kings's interface (common across all their software) is also terrible; it shows you refutations and variations, which is great, but you can't skip them or save them for later, and there are so many of them that they distract from the main line of the exercise; and it seems like if you're making enough wrong moves that this becomes a problem, the last thing you need is constant interruption. And you have no way to replay the exercise from the beginning so that you can review, so you move to the next exercise without even really knowing what you yourself did in the previous one. ### 3/5 — Ошибка *2022-01-14* при просмотре партии или теории, записанные ходы не выделяются чёрным, как это было всегда, а иногда пропадают просто и на месте записанного хода белое пятно. очень неудобно, исправьте пожалуйста ### 3/5 — Vasat *2016-08-28, version 0.9.4* Dili Türkçe olaydı full sürümü satın alırdım yazık. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Хорошее приложение *2024-07-09* Очень удобное приложение! ### 5/5 — Très bonne application ! *2023-10-23* Idéal pour travailler ses ouvertures! Bravo ### 5/5 — Great app but need a lot more exercises of the different openings. *2023-01-28* It’s a really good app. I’ve learned a lot so far about how openings work.I just wish there were more examples of the opening systems. I rather like the Leningrad Dutch and want to learn more about it but you give only one example (sic) that said, the example given is very powerful. It would be great to give 20 or more examples of the different openings if at all possible. After studying some of the examples I was blasting my opponents of the board! The interface/ layout and idea/ concept are very good and easy to follow. We just need more examples/ exercises of them. Cheers ### 5/5 — Great for chess studies! *2022-02-27* I lik ### 5/5 — Ouvertures *2020-11-08* Excellente application. Il est dommage que les explications ne soient pas en français. Et que l’on ne trouve pas les livres de référence. ### 5/5 — Chris Scannell *2020-07-19* Fantastic teaching tool-👍 ### 5/5 — Круто *2020-01-13* То что нужно ### 5/5 — AMAZING TOPMOST CHESS COACH *2019-11-13* I love kings all apps ### 5/5 — Bon entrenador d’obertures *2018-10-31, version 1.2* Va molt bé per entrenar per un jugador dElo 1900 ### 5/5 — Excellent teacher *2018-10-12* The program has truly assisted me to improve my game. Great app! --- *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 2026-09-05.*