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.
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.
- Undo moves
- Save and load games
- 4 difficulty levels
- Timer-based games
- Designed for beginners
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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
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.
- Interactive chess rules lessons
- Practice exercises with hints
- Theoretical sections with board play
- 500+ carefully chosen examples
- Progress tracking (ELO rating)
- Offline access
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Easy Chess ™ | Chess School for Beginners |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (504 ratings) | 4.6 (646 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better | 58.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 504 | 646 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VM Mobile Team | Chess King |
Customer experience
Easy Chess ™
Chess School for Beginners
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
Easy Chess ™
- Premium$3.99
Chess School for Beginners
- Full course$7.99
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