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Pocket Chess

Pocket Chess

Chess Puzzles

15K ratings
1282 reviews
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  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 14, 2021
  • October 24, 2025

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Developer

Lessmore GmbH
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🧾$1.99 - $25.99
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About

Enhance your chess skills with hundreds of challenging chess problems and puzzles. This app focuses on simplified boards to help you quickly recognize chess patterns and improve your game.

✓Hundreds of chess problems
✓Checkmate in 2 and 4 puzzles
✓Simplified boards for pattern recognition
✓Improve chess game
✓Learn chess patterns faster
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Pocket Chess. Based on 15K reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this game.

Positive things

  • 🚀Improved chess skills
  • 👍Challenging yet fun puzzles
  • 🤩Addictive and engaging
  • 🧠Helps develop tactical thinking
  • 📈Tracks progress and skill level

Negative things

  • 🙄Excessive ads
  • 💰Expensive to remove ads
  • 🐛Some puzzles have issues
  • 🤔Opponent moves don't always make sense
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What's New in Pocket Chess

0.33.1

October 24, 2025

Tech update Thank you for playing!

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In-App Purchases

$5.99

Medium Coin Bundle

Medium Coin Bundle

User reviews

Most RecentHighest RatedLowest Rated

USED to be stable, but now crashes frequently

I cleared all the levels and started over again. This app used to run great, but I don’t know what service they’ve partnered with, but the some of the ads in this game outright crash this app. Not the video ads—the BANNER ads. I hope they address this issue soon.

Update: “Restore Purchase” does NOT work anymore.
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NoWrongInChicknNoWrongInChickn

Inaccurate

Simple checkmates not legal.
petrocitchpetrocitch

Technical glitches

Gets stuck every 20-30 seconds, poorly programmed
DerPate305DerPate305

It’s what it says it is

It’s a simple, fun, thoughtful chess puzzle game. It’s not overmonetized. It’s not trying to upsell clothing or costumes or chessboards. It’s just a straightforward, engaging, pretty chess puzzle game for ads or $5.
SeishinoSeishino

Great game but literally stuck in ads.

Very fun and good design, but the majority of the ads are scaled so large they’re missing the exit button so you get legitimately stuck in them.
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

3 issues

Progress data loss

Bug

Incorrect checkmate solutions

Bug

Game freezing after certain moves

Bug
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Requested Features

4 requests

Ability to review past puzzles

Feature

More advanced puzzles and levels

Feature

Option to disable audio/music

Feature

Sync progress across devices

Feature

FAQ

What does Pocket Chess do?

Pocket Chess offers a collection of hundreds of chess problems and puzzles designed to help users improve their chess skills. It features simplified boards to facilitate faster recognition of chess patterns.

What kind of chess puzzles are available?

The app provides a variety of puzzles, including 'Checkmate in 2' and 'Checkmate in 4' problems, along with many others. These are designed to be thought-provoking and help users practice tactical situations.

Is Pocket Chess free to download?

Yes, the app is free to download. However, it does contain in-app purchases and advertisements, which are common for free mobile applications.

How does Pocket Chess help improve my game?

By presenting numerous chess problems and puzzles on simplified boards, the app helps you learn to recognize chess patterns more quickly. This focused practice is designed to enhance your overall chess strategy and tactical abilities.