# Tactics — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of Tactics by ChessBase GmbH, rated 3.00/5 from 3 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tactics/id576295991/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tactics/id576295991.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (9 of 28) ### 1/5 — DOES NOT WORK. *2013-08-20* At a certain point the app will crash EVERYTIME you key in a move. ### 1/5 — Impossibly bad *2013-07-18* This is the most confusing, least functional chess tactics program I've ever seen for iOS; there's no reason in the world this software should've been released in this lousy condition. It's embarrassing how badly ChessBase is adapting to the new world of tablet computing and mobile apps. ### 1/5 — Awful, damages Chessbase's reputation *2013-06-25, version 1.02* Terrible user interface, no history, can't go back. Can't imagine who designed, built or QA'd this app. Chessbase has a good reputation but it's seriously knocked with this app. Update: getting the same constant crashes as reported elsewhere. Won't buy other CB products for iPad ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2013-06-09, version 1.02* Not bad app when I first installed. solved 80 positions and now keeps crashing. Now deinstalled. ### 1/5 — Die Bedienung ist sehr abstrus *2013-05-27, version 1.02* Irgendwie hat es sich mir noch nicht erschlossen, wie man diese App bedienen soll. Sehr schlecht gemachtes UI. ### 1/5 — Useless *2013-05-14* Not sure what they're thinking putting this on such a respected brand. Input is clunky and it sometimes takes several tries for a move to register. Some of the variations seem a bit odd too. It may have just been the frustration building up, but it seemed to ask you to perform menial tasks such as find the pin when there was a mate on the board. Tactics are a decent training tool IF you can go back and figure out why something was played. Otherwise it is an exercise in futility. A tactics trainer should let you play around with the solution so you understand what just happened. This doesn't include that, it doesn't give variations when you've solved the problem, and you can't even stop and look at the board when you've found the solution. It just takes you to the next task without giving you time to learn from the puzzle. The result is a waste of time. ### 1/5 — Still crashes every time I make a move *2013-04-28* Unfortunately, the updated app still crashes every time I reach a specific endgame tactic in which each side has 3 pawns and no pieces. Once I reach this problem, it will crash every time I make a move. If I try to skip this problem, it will crash on the next problem, every time. ### 1/5 — Halbfertig *2013-04-24, version 1.0* Eine Zugfolge wird nicht gezeigt. Es wird lediglich angezeigt, ob der eingegebene erste Zug stimmt oder nicht. Antworten auf den Zug oder Varianten werden nicht angezeigt. ### 1/5 — CB Tactics *2013-04-19, version 1.0* This could be a great help to budding chess gamers like me if it wasn't full of bugs. Everytime I do a correct move the app closes down. Then my score stays the same even though it's the correct move. I am using an iPhone 5 and iOS 6.3. Please fix ASAP. Thank you. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does not work *2025-04-10, version 2.0* The equivalent website is good but this app unfortunately does not work at all. A pity as would be good to use on the go. ### 1/5 — App startet nicht *2018-05-13, version 2.0* Beim Starten auf dem iPad erscheint lediglich ein weißer Bildschirm. Wofür zahlt man eigentlich die Premiumbeiträge? ### 1/5 — Very bad Web based ui *2015-09-07, version 2.0* Pure ios ui will be more user friendly and responsive. After this update I can not use this program. ### 1/5 — Weak *2014-09-08* First a "tactic" in this app is 1 MOVE, so 1 "puzzle" could count for as many as 5 "tactics" so you may not get 100 puzzles for 99¢, second, not all are tactics, some puzzles are just for the best move, which can be confusing if you're looking for a tactic. ### 1/5 — Tactics *2014-07-10, version 1.02* Always crashes, I expected better. Very disappointed! ### 1/5 — Peice of *2014-06-07, version 1.02* 💩 ### 1/5 — unstable s/w *2013-12-07* The app closes the moment you make the correct move. I even purchased more puzzles hoping that this would solve the problem, however the problem continues. Now I have 200 puzzles, 43 solved and the app closes when the correct move is made. ### 1/5 — Tactics *2013-12-01, version 1.02* Without everytime buying new puzzles, you can not solve already bought problems. ### 1/5 — Horrible. *2013-11-24* There are no instructions on how to use this app. ### 1/5 — Gute Idee, aber noch unreife Umsetzung *2013-11-23, version 1.02* Die App stürzt recht häufig ab. Die Oberfläche ist minimalistisch, aber ausreichend. Schade finde ich, dass die weiteren Züge bzw. die Begründung für die richtigen Züge nicht angezeigt werden. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Neues design *2015-07-24, version 2.0* Danke fuer den update ### 5/5 — Good app *2015-06-01* How many tactics are there? I wanna purchase them all :D ### 4/5 — Useful *2017-12-27, version 2.0* The server was down over Christmas when I first tried this, so not a great start, but that’s now been resolved. Looks like a useful little app to sharpen one’s skills. ### 4/5 — Progresser de cent coups *2015-03-21* Très bonne appli mais nécessiterait de progresser de cent coups par un bouton sans comptabiliser ces coups comme valides afin de ne pas devoir tout refaire du début à chaque fois car il est irritant de refaire des problèmes connus pour avancer. Si le développeur pouvait faire un màj dans ce sens.... ### 2/5 — Still way too buggy *2023-03-24* Access to web apps is spotty. They’re useful, when they work, but the videos still are completely broken, for example. Also it’s entirely too easy to tap a button that takes you to a place from which you cannot return. There’s a lot of potential for this app in the Chessbase ecosystem, but Chessbase itself seems completely uninterested in it these days. CT-ART is a far better tactics trainer than this is. This *could* be a great app, if CB ever decides to care about it. Until it does, there’s no real point in buying it. ### 2/5 — Still way too buggy *2023-01-07, version 2.0* Access to web apps is spotty. They’re useful, when they work, but the videos still are completely broken, for example. Also it’s entirely too easy to tap a button that takes you to a place from which you cannot return. There’s a lot of potential for this app in the Chessbase ecosystem, but Chessbase itself seems completely uninterested in it these days. CT-ART is a far better tactics trainer than this is. This *could* be a great app, if CB ever decides to care about it. Until it does, there’s no real point in buying it. ### 2/5 — Poorly done *2015-12-26* This doesn't feel like an iOS game at all. The interface is horrible. The chess problem may be interesting but they are badly designed and poorly described: I tried two and they were both 'Black to move and win', except it didn't meant in the next move! And White's response to the "hinted" move is not forced... so badly posed chess problems. In short... a poorly done chess problems app. Why is this a Featured App??? ### 2/5 — Major bug *2014-03-17* After getting about 3/4 the way through, a bug appears. The bug always first appears on the same puzzle (the one u put black in zugzwang before taking pawn Kxg5). As soon as you try to move the pawn to the right square the app crashes back to iOS home screen. Can only get around by pressing hint first, then moving the piece. But you must continue to press hint before any subsequent moves after this, or again the app crashes once you make the right move. Using hint results in not being awarded the point for the puzzle, which is fundamental aim of solving the puzzles...! Please fix... ### 2/5 — Waste of money! Keeps crashing *2013-09-02, version 1.02* For a few hours it was great and then it started to crash / close itself down. Very disappointed because I'm trying to get back into chess after a break of a few years. Save your money until CB update this potentially useful app. --- *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 2026-08-22.*