Comparison

Easy Chess ™ vs Chess School for Beginners

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Easy Chess ™

This app offers a simplified chess experience designed for newcomers to the game. Enjoy challenging yet winnable matches against the computer, with features to help you learn and play at your own pace.

Highlights
  • Undo moves
  • Save and load games
  • 4 difficulty levels
  • Timer-based games
  • Designed for beginners
Features
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Easy Chess is a fun chess game for beginners! The difficulty has been set so that if you are new to chess, you will have great time winning the computers while still have fun and challenging games. Features: * Undo * Save/load unfinished game * 4 levels of difficulties * Timer based game

About

Chess School for Beginners

Learn chess with an interactive course designed for beginners of all ages. It offers structured lessons, practice exercises with hints and explanations, and theoretical sections with interactive board play. Improve your game with over 500 examples and track your progress.

Highlights
  • Interactive chess rules lessons
  • Practice exercises with hints
  • Theoretical sections with board play
  • 500+ carefully chosen examples
  • Progress tracking (ELO rating)
  • Offline access
Features
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This friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 2 main sections: Chess rules and Playing. 500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student. This course is in the series Chess King Learn, which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players. With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice. The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make. The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board. Advantages of the program: • High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness • You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher • Different levels of complexity of the tasks • Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems • The program gives hint if an error is made • For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown • You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer • Interactive theoretical lessons • Structured table of contents • The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process • Test mode with flexible settings • Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises • The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet • The application does not require an internet connection The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Introduction 1.1. Chess board 1.2. Chess pieces 1.3. Starting position 2. Pieces' moves 2.1. Rook 2.2. Bishop 2.3. Queen 2.4. Knight 2.5. King 2.6. Pawn 3. Capture 4. Pawn promotion 5. The relative value of the pieces 6. Castling 7. The role of the king, Check and mate 7.1. Check and mate 7.2. Mate 7.3. Mate in one move 7.4. Stalemate 7.5. Perpetual check 8. Notation (How to read moves) 9. Elementary capture 9.1. Winning a knight 9.2. Winning a bishop 9.3. Winning a rook 9.4. Winning a queen 9.5. Win a piece 10. Simple defense 10.1. Retreat 10.2. Defending with another piece 10.3. Taking an attacking piece 10.4. Interception 10.5. Defending from mate 11. Chess skills development 12. The role of the king. Continuation 12.1. Mate in 1 12.2. Mate in 2 12.3. Discovered check 12.4. Double check 12.5. Perpetual check 12.6. Stalemate 13. King and queen against a king 14. King and rook against a king 15. King and minor piece or a pawn against a king 16. Etiquette during a game

Screenshots

Easy Chess ™3 screens
Chess School for Beginners4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chess School for Beginners at every 3 months against Easy Chess ™'s every 13 months. Chess School for Beginners also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Easy Chess ™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess School for Beginners sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Easy Chess ™ against 4.6 for Chess School for Beginners. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 504 and 646 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Easy Chess ™'s written reviews are positive against 59% of Chess School for Beginners's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Chess ™ ships an update every 13 months, Chess School for Beginners every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Easy Chess ™ versus Chess School for Beginners: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Chess ™Chess School for Beginners
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (504 ratings)4.6 (646 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews — better58.8% of reviews
Number of ratings504646 — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVM Mobile TeamChess King

Customer experience

Easy Chess ™

All ratings497 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral6.6%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative21.4%

Chess School for Beginners

All ratings646 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral14.7%
Negative26.5%

Bugs and requests

Easy Chess ™

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • App keeps making user share with friends

Requested features

1 request
  • Ability to save games

Chess School for Beginners

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Easy Chess ™

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99
1 purchases

Chess School for Beginners

One-time1
  • Full course$7.99

Questions

Is Easy Chess ™ free?
Easy Chess ™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess School for Beginners free?
Chess School for Beginners is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Easy Chess ™ or Chess School for Beginners?
Chess School for Beginners is rated higher. Easy Chess ™ averages 4.5 out of 5 from 504 ratings, while Chess School for Beginners averages 4.6 from 646 ratings.
Do Easy Chess ™ or Chess School for Beginners have ads?
Neither Easy Chess ™ nor Chess School for Beginners shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Easy Chess ™ or Chess School for Beginners?
Easy Chess ™ ships an update every 13 months, and Chess School for Beginners every 3 months. Most recently, Easy Chess ™ was updated on October 30, 2026 and Chess School for Beginners on October 29, 2026.

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