# Puzzled - Chess Trainer — user reviews

> 7 indexed App Store user reviews of Puzzled by Liam Mccluskey, rated 4.50/5 from 16 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/puzzled-chess-trainer/id1493090358/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/puzzled-chess-trainer/id1493090358.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1

## Most critical reviews (7 lowest-rated)

### 4/5 — Good puzzle app

*2020-09-10*

After the new update of the app, the majority of the bugs are gone. Now, the app is creative, looks good and is fun.

One complaint I have with this version though is some of the daily puzzles are obnoxious difficult and the have no view solution button. To give you an idea of this, I ran one daily puzzle through Stockfish and it only gave an evaluation of +4 for white.

Aside from that, great work on the app.

**Developer response:** I’m glad you like the update. In the next update I’m  working on adding an opening explorer, and the ability to search and review master games. It should be out within a week or two. 

- Liam

### 4/5 — Great app! But needs some updates.

*2020-08-26*

Really good app but definitely needs a few updates. For example, on the non blind puzzles it lets you move pieces to squares they cannot go so if I click on my queen then realise it is a knight move and try to switch to my knight, it fails the puzzle. The same can happen if I click two empty squares. But overall great app with good  puzzles.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the review and the suggestions. I’m working on move validation for non blindfold puzzles, so expect an update with that fixed within a week. 

- Liam

### 4/5 — Great app

*2020-08-22*

This app offers a unique and very important training method.

1 star off for these needed features...
 - the position should be written in order from left to right. Ex, pawns on a2, c4, d2, f2, g2, h2. The way it’s currently represented is all out of order like this c4, h2, g2, f2, d2, a2.
 - make the board or the position text area fixed, so you can see the whole board while scrolling the text in the position area.

Blindfold chess is hard enough but these things can make internalizing the position more fluid.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the review and the feedback, I’m glad you like the app so far. I’m releasing an update next week (8/29 at the latest) that will cover those issues and many other much needed improvements. Hope you enjoy the update. 

- Liam

### 5/5 — Great app

*2022-09-07*

Exactly what I was looking for
To train my visualization skills

### 5/5 — decent opening explorer

*2021-01-17*

this app has decent puzzles, and probably the best free opening explorer i’ve seen aside from lichess.

### 5/5 — Cool concept

*2021-01-17*

This is the first app ive seen with blindfold puzzles. The opening explorer is really good too. It would be nice if they would add a feature to save opening studies though.

### 5/5 — Cool app

*2020-11-11*

Clean interface and easy to use. Really challenging and fun puzzles

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