# ChessCoach - Learn Chess — Lessons, puzzles, game review

> Lessons, puzzles, game review (iPhone/iPad app by INPHIL CHOI.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chesscoach-learn-chess/id6807283401 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [INPHIL CHOI](https://appshunter.io/developer/6785766361)
- Category: Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 21 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-05
- Data updated: 2026-10-11

## What is ChessCoach?

Learn chess step by step, right on your phone.

ChessCoach is a chess course that opens on Today's Learning. Every day it lays out a short plan (a daily puzzle, one lesson, a tactics set and a practice game) and tracks your progress by chapter and by theme.

■ 20-lesson curriculum
Five chapters: Basics, Opening principles, Tactical motifs, Intermediate, Endgame basics. New lessons end with exercises on the board, checked move by move by the rules engine, with an explanation after every answer.
· Control the centre, develop your pieces, castle
· Count attackers and defenders, knight forks, queen double attacks
· Mate with queen and rook, promotion and the rule of the square, the opposition

■ Game review that explains
After a game against the on-device AI, the app picks your biggest mistakes and says why in plain words: a piece left undefended, a missed checkmate, a missed fork. It links to the lesson that teaches the idea, and each mistake becomes a puzzle you can retry.

■ 1,200 puzzles
1,000 checkmate puzzles (mate in one, back-rank mates) and 200 tactics puzzles (forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks). Every tactics puzzle was checked by the on-device engine to have one clear best move. A daily puzzle and streak. Accuracy per theme shows your weak spots and suggests a lesson to review.

■ Practice games
An AI from Elo 400 to 2400, unlimited free hints, move-by-move replay and PGN export.

■ Opening library
15 openings replayed move by move, with the idea behind each.

■ No account, all on your device
No server, no login. Lessons, puzzles and the AI all run on your device, even in airplane mode. Your progress never leaves your phone.

■ 5 languages
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

■ Free and the Full Course
Free: the first 5 lessons (Basics chapter), Today's Learning, 1,000 mate puzzles, the daily puzzle, the first 5 puzzles of each tactics theme, AI games with hints and review, the opening library and My Progress.
ChessCoach Full Course (one-time purchase, not a subscription, Family Sharing supported): all 20 lessons (opening principles, tactical motifs, intermediate, endgame basics), all 200 tactics puzzles, and no ads.
If you have used ChessCoach since version 1.0, the 10 lessons you already had stay free, and your saved games, puzzles and lessons carry over.

■ About ads
Ads appear only when you open the app: at most 3 times a day, at least 4 hours apart. Never during a lesson, a puzzle, a game or a review, and never on the first launch after installing. No ads after buying the Full Course. To show ads, Google AdMob processes the device information it needs (no personalised ads).

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://inphilchoi.github.io/chesscoach-privacy/

## Is ChessCoach safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess ChessCoach.

## Is ChessCoach legit?

ChessCoach - Learn Chess appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ChessCoach is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-01

ChessCoach is now a step-by-step chess course.
• The app opens on Today's Learning: your next lesson and a four-step daily plan
• 10 new lessons with board exercises: opening principles, tactical motifs, endgame basics
• Game review explains each mistake in plain words and links to the lesson that teaches it
• 200 new tactics puzzles: forks, pins, skewers and discovered attacks, linked from the lessons
• New My Progress screen: chapters, accuracy per theme, what to study next
• A more lifelike 3D wooden board with a new knight
New: the ChessCoach Full Course (one-time purchase, Family Sharing) opens all 20 lessons and 200 tactics puzzles and removes ads. The first 5 lessons, Today's Learning, 1,000 mate puzzles, the daily puzzle and games stay free, and if you have used the app since 1.0, the 10 lessons you had stay free. Your saved games, puzzles and lessons carry over.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-26

提示改为免费且不限次数。

• 取消了「看广告获取提示」— 提示随时免费
• 广告只在打开应用时出现（每天最多3次，间隔至少4小时）
• 对局中、解谜中、复盘中都不会出现
• 安装后首次打开不会出现广告

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-25

提示不够用时，现在可以看广告获取。

• 每局对局仍有3次免费提示
• 之后点击「看广告获取提示」，看完一段短视频广告即可获得提示
• 广告只在你点击这个按钮时出现，没有横幅广告，也没有插屏广告
• 无法加载广告时（例如离线），会直接给出提示

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-17

After each game, ChessCoach now points out up to three of your biggest mistakes.

• Replay any mistake position as a puzzle ("My mistakes" in the Puzzles tab)
• Games in progress are saved automatically, so you can pick up where you left off
• The bottom tabs are simplified to Play, Training and Puzzles

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-15

Added a daily training plan (four-step course with a training streak) and a 10-lesson beginner-to-intermediate curriculum.

• The App Store now lists the languages the app supports
• Adjusted when we ask for a rating

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