# Chess Tactics for Beginners — user reviews > 97 indexed App Store user reviews of Chess Tactics for Beginners by Chess King, rated 4.80/5 from 1,041 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-tactics-for-beginners/id1142551734/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-tactics-for-beginners/id1142551734.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 880 · 4★ 112 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Chess Tactics for Beginners? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for improving chess skills - 🚀 Effective learning process - 💡 Interesting and creative exercises - 👍 Good for beginners and advanced players **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy app with issues - 💰 Expensive premium version - 🤔 Confusing rating system - 📚 Lack of explanations and instructions **Commonly reported bugs** - Exercises not working correctly - App copying clipboard content - Purchases not restoring properly **Most requested features** - Add video tutorials - Improve sound effects - Provide more free content - Allow disabling rating updates ## Newest reviews (15 of 97) ### 4/5 — Приложение прекрасное *2022-02-21* Но есть непонятный момент. Кто придумал систему рейтинга? Она реально негативно давит. Можно решить 9 из 10 задач и при этом упасть в рейтинге. Если завалил простую задачу получи -10 или -15. За решение сложной получи +1 или +3. А то и вообще ничего потому что мой рейтинг и так высокий. Он же нужен как стимул для дальнейшего развития а в итоге наоборот. Чтобы он рос надо выбивать 100 из 100. Если я так смогу сразу на чемпионат мира поеду. Так что стараюсь не смотреть на него. ### 4/5 — Советую *2022-02-12* Рекомендую приложение. Оценка 4, так как можно было бы сделать чуть больше курсов бесплатными. Или хотя бы дешевле. Очень хочется играть правильно, грамотно. ### 5/5 — Good Game!!!! *2021-11-03, version 1.2* Buen juego ### 5/5 — On numara *2021-10-09, version 1.2* Beş yıldız ### 5/5 — Bilen bilir, zaten incelediğiniz zaman göreceksiniz uygulama süper🧿 *2021-09-24, version 1.2* Güzel Harika inceleyin sonra acele etmeyin tam sürüm almak için ama tam sürüm alınmalı mı alınmalı ### 3/5 — Great and Terrible *2021-08-07* 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. It’s frustrating and demoralizing. It’s exactly enough to know when I’ve erred. It’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 I’m working hard to address. Give us an option to SHUT IT OFF. ### 5/5 — Fantastica !! *2021-08-01, version 1.2* Ottima app per migliorare a scacchi ### 5/5 — Excellent. *2021-06-14* Good app. No complaints. Quality problems. ### 5/5 — best online books^^ *2021-05-06* amazing new edition & various romance will available ### 5/5 — Good for me! *2021-04-18, version 1.2* Il ### 5/5 — I Like This App *2021-04-17* I Like This app. ### 5/5 — Helped me improve *2021-03-09* It’s a rich learning process but you get as much as you put into the training ### 5/5 — Çok iyi *2021-03-08, version 1.2* Liseden beri satranç oynamamıştım tekrar sevdirdi ### 4/5 — Très passionnant *2021-02-23* Très bons exercices ### 5/5 — Évaluation *2021-02-01* Très bien pour un nul comme moi ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Karmaşık *2021-08-03, version 1.2* Çok karmaşık ### 1/5 — Buggy app *2020-12-04* The exercises are excellent but the app itself is buggy and frustrating ### 1/5 — Spies on your clipboard *2020-11-15* When you open the app, it pastes from your clipboard. There isn’t any good reason for this I can think of, besides maybe reading a FEN automatically, which this app doesn’t do. Seems like an invasion of privacy. ### 1/5 — Annoying notification *2020-03-31* I would have given much more if the app hadn’t ask me to rate it in store so often even for the paid version. ### 2/5 — Temel taktikler *2020-03-29, version 1.2* Brazen gicigima gidiyo ### 2/5 — Simple and effective for beginners *2018-10-10, version 1.2* Based on the Soviet tactical books of Ivashenko for beginners, allows to rapidly grasp the abc of elementary tactics, preparing for more complicated and realistic problems. Excellent for beginners to start first tactical pattern-recognition. ### 3/5 — Zum Thema „Taktik für Anfänger“ *2024-12-12* Ich finde das Lösen der Aufgaben „Matt in 1“ und „Matt in 2“ sehr lehrreich und bin beeindruckt von der Kreativität dieser Mattbilder. Es zeigt wie sehr der Geist über die Materie herrschen kann. Welche Tiefe das Schachspiel haben kann. Ich erkenne immer wieder welch mächtige Kraft dem Zusammenspiel der Figuren zukommt. Vielen Dank für diese Zusammenstellung. Peterxyz ### 3/5 — Öğrenmek isteyenlere *2022-01-23, version 1.2* Alıştırmalar çok güz ### 3/5 — No updates from developer. Possible spyware. *2021-10-20* 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. ### 3/5 — Je viens d’acheter l’application complète. Déçu par rapport à la gratuite. *2021-09-23* Il y’a t’il un mode d’emploi ? Peut-on enregistrer une. partie ? Je ne peux pas questionner, l’application refuse. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2025-11-24* I love so much my coach recommended it and made me gain 500 elo just try it ### 5/5 — Très bien *2025-04-14, version 1.2* Exercices intéressants. ### 5/5 — Простые тактики *2024-12-07* Хорошее приложение. Помогает развить шахматные навыки. ### 5/5 — Lenn *2023-09-04* Anybody who wants to learn/improve in chess needs this! I went over this whole thing at least 4 times and dramatically improved ### 5/5 — Rating *2023-04-24* Seems good so far ### 5/5 — Great Tactics for all levels of beginners *2023-04-15* Yeet ### 5/5 — Great Learning Tool *2023-03-23* 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 I’ve found for real learning. ### 5/5 — thanks *2022-10-05* thank you it is fun ### 5/5 — :) *2022-01-25* Спасибо разработчикам за это приложение. Отлично помогает развивать логику и мышление. При ошибках, показываются возможные лучшие ходы и это очень помогает, когда ты не понимаешь что делать. Распределение отделов удачное и простое. ### 5/5 — Супер *2022-01-15* Занимаюсь шахматами уже 2 года, считаю, самое лучшее приложение по решению задач и прочего. Можно разыграть с движком и понять свои ошибки, пройти тесты и просто порешать. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ --- *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.*