Chessward teaches chess. It starts with which way the pawns move and finishes with how to calculate a line, and every lesson is played out on the board rather than read.
FORTY FOUR LESSONS
Seven stages. First moves, the tactics that win pieces, checkmate patterns, openings, endgames, positional judgement, and the habits that stop you losing games you should win.
20,635 PUZZLES THAT FOLLOW YOU
Every puzzle you solve or miss moves your rating, and the next one is chosen near it. You carry a separate rating for each tactical theme, so if you see pins but miss deflections, you get deflections.
EIGHT KINDS OF RIDDLE
Positions where the obvious move is the wrong one. Promote to a knight instead of a queen. Win with a move that gives no check and takes nothing. Find the stalemate when you are lost.
TEN OPPONENTS
From one that leaves pieces hanging to one that will beat most club players. Each unlocks when you beat the one below it. They play weakly by choosing plausible moves rather than by thinking shallowly, so their mistakes are the ones a human of that strength actually makes.
A COACH THAT EXPLAINS
After every game, every move is checked against what the engine would have played. Not a score. A reason, in words: which piece you left undefended, what the refutation was, and what the pattern is called. Then it feeds that pattern back into your practice.
NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER
Everything runs on your device. There is no account to make, nothing is uploaded to us, and all of it works in airplane mode.
GAME CENTER AND THE GAMES APP
Optional. Sign in to Game Center and your puzzle rating, puzzles solved, lessons finished and opponents beaten go on leaderboards, with thirteen achievements to earn. They count what you have already done, so signing in later loses nothing. Start today's puzzle, a lesson or a game straight from Apple's Games app.
ON EVERY SCREEN YOU ALREADY LOOK AT
A fresh puzzle each day on the Home Screen and on the Lock Screen, and on iOS 27 a tall widget that gives the board room. Control Center buttons open today's puzzle, your lessons or a game. Search Spotlight for a lesson, a fork or a skewer, and it opens that lesson. Ask Siri for today's puzzle, your next lesson or a game, and it opens straight there. Built for iPhone and iPad, with the board sized for each.
FREE, WITH MORE
The free plan covers the rules and the tactics that win pieces: fifteen lessons, eight puzzles a day, two riddle sets and three opponents, supported by ads that never appear inside a lesson or while you are solving.
Chessward Plus unlocks all 44 lessons, unlimited puzzles, all eight riddle sets, all ten opponents and the full coaching review, and removes ads. It is an auto renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. It renews automatically for the same period and price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings.
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Puzzles selected from the Lichess open database, released into the public domain under Creative Commons CC0. The chess engine was written for this app.
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