# Chess: Simple Defense — Chess Training

> Interactive chess training app focused on defensive skills for beginners. (iPhone/iPad app by Chess King.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-simple-defense/id1152972555 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Chess King](https://appshunter.io/developer/1096660597)
- Category: Games, Education, Board, Puzzle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 59 App Store ratings · 8 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 42 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Italian, Polish, European Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and 4 more
- Released: 2016-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-simple-defense/id1152972555/reviews.md

## What is Chess?

If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces from being taken! Every chessplayer has to master and consolidate some basic defensive skills such as withdrawing or protecting a piece, interception or attacking an opponent's piece. Having consolidated your knowledge by doing a great number of exercises you will be able to improve your level of playing. This course includes more than 3000 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners.

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, middle game, 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
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• 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

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. Retreat
1.1. Defend your knight
1.2. Defend your bishop
1.3. Defend your rook
1.4. Defend your queen
2. Defending with another piece
2.1. Defend your knight
2.2. Defend your bishop
2.3. Defend your rook
3. Taking an attacking piece
3.1. Defend your knight
3.2. Defend your bishop
3.3. Defend your rook
3.4. Defend your queen
4. Interception
4.1. Defend your rook
4.2. Defend your queen
5. Defending from mate
5.1. Level 4
5.2. Level 5
5.3. Level 6
5.4. Level 7
5.5. Level 8
5.6. Level 9
5.7. Level 10
5.8. Level 11
5.9. Level 12
6. Difficulty level
6.1. Level 1
6.2. Level 2
6.3. Level 3
6.4. Level 4
6.5. Level 5
6.6. Level 6
6.7. Level 7
6.8. Level 8
6.9. Level 9
6.10. Level 10
6.11. Level 11
6.12. Level 12

## Key features

- Over 3000 defensive exercises
- Interactive coach with hints and explanations
- Improve defensive tactics
- Track ELO rating changes
- Offline play capability
- Play positions against computer

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full course | $3.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (8 of 8)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-simple-defense/id1152972555/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Платная версия

*2022-01-09*

Платная полная версия действует как подписка и для всех приложений? Или только для одного?

### 4/5 — Состав тем

*2019-02-21*

Много однотипных задач, на легких уровнях нудно, но в целом очень поучительно, спасибо

### 5/5 — Отличное приложение

*2018-12-15*

Отличное приложение ,как и все от данных разработчиков.Все ясно ,понятно ,чётко и без «воды».Как вариант добавить легкую и не навязчивую мелодию .Приложением доволен 5 звёзд

### 5/5 — Muito bom

*2018-09-23, version 1.2*

Vale a compra.

### 2/5 — Внешний вид стрёмный

*2018-04-30*

К содержанию вообще нет претензий, но внешний вид досок и фигур - колхоз. Сравниваю с тем же Chess.com, в котором вариантов больше и сами они приятней выглядят.

### 5/5 — Very Direct

*2017-09-21*

A great opportunity to exercise your chess mind in bite-size chunks throughout the day.

### 4/5 — Muit bom

*2016-11-08, version 0.9.5*

Bom app pra treinar e estudar movimentos! Recomendado!

### 5/5 — You'll Never leave a piece hanging again!!

*2016-10-17*

This is one of the best apps for beginners and bullet players!
It simple trains you to see hanging pieces and defend against loosing pieces! 
I'm waiting for the program EASY WAYS OF TAKING PAWNS AND PIECES!
It trains you to never miss one of your opponents hanging pieces! Chess King offers the absolute best chess training software in the entire world. There are programs for every level of your chess development and nothing else compares. Nothing else out there comes close to these outstanding chess training programs.

## Frequently asked questions about Chess

### What is Chess: Simple Defense?

Chess: Simple Defense is a mobile application designed to help beginners master fundamental defensive chess skills. It offers over 3000 interactive exercises with hints and explanations to consolidate defensive tactics.

### Is Chess: Simple Defense free to play?

Yes, Chess: Simple Defense is free to download and includes a functional free part for testing. Additional topics and full functionality are available through in-app purchases.

### Does Chess: Simple Defense have ads?

No, Chess: Simple Defense does not contain advertisements, providing an uninterrupted learning experience.

### Can I play Chess: Simple Defense offline?

Yes, the application does not require an internet connection, allowing you to practice your defensive chess skills anytime, anywhere.

### What kind of exercises does Chess: Simple Defense offer?

The app provides over 3000 exercises focused on defensive skills such as retreating pieces, defending with other pieces, taking attacking pieces, and defending from checkmate, with varying levels of complexity.

### How does Chess: Simple Defense help me improve?

It acts as a coach, giving tasks, providing hints and explanations when you get stuck, and showing refutations for common mistakes. It also monitors your ELO rating changes during the learning process.

### What devices is Chess: Simple Defense available on?

Chess: Simple Defense is available on iPhone and iPad devices.

### How often is Chess: Simple Defense updated?

The application was last updated on February 2, 2018, with the latest version being 1.2.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2 — 2018-02-02

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

• App is updated for iPhone X
• New home screen
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements

### 1.0.4 — 2017-06-19

Attention! You should have an internet connection on the first launch to verify your purchase!
• Added Chinese translations 
• Added cloud sync option for statistics and bookmarks
• Added "Auto hints" option - you can use it to turn off automatic hints after wrong move attempts
• Added switching between exercises using swipe gestures
• Added Tag (colored commentaries) option for bookmarks
• Various fixes and improvements

### 0.9.8 — 2017-02-09

• Added auto switch to the next exercise
• Added engine analysis mode and improved engine play mode
• Added statistics of the solved exercises by day
• Added possibility to share exercise with friends
• Added table of symbols convention
• Bug fixes and small improvements

### 0.9.7 — 2017-01-16

• Added sounds in practice
• Added option to disable showing of the exercise goal
• Added possibility to change appearance of move marker
• Added Dutch, Polish languages
• Bug fixes and small improvements

### 0.9.5 — 2016-09-23

No release notes.

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