Comparison

Chess Endgame Studies vs Chess Trainer Pro

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

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About

Chess Endgame Studies

Master chess endgames with a curated collection of instructive studies and exercises. This app provides hints, explanations, and feedback to help you improve tactical skills and consolidate knowledge.

Highlights
  • 950+ endgame compositions
  • 900+ subsidiary exercises
  • Unique 5x5 mini-position hints
  • Interactive coach with hints and explanations
  • Refutation of common mistakes
  • Play positions against the computer
  • Tracks ELO rating changes
Features
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This training course is a special subset of famous CT-ART 4.0 course, based on best chess studies, especially chosen for their instructive value. There is simply no substitute for the ease and quality of the studies presented, not to mention their eternal beauty. Endgame Studies includes about 950 greatest endgame compositions and 900 subsidiary exercises. Each position comes with a special hint unique to this course – a 5x5 mini-position designed to convey the very essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example. This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), 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. 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 • 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. Chess Tactics Art for Advanced 1.1. Attacking the king 1.2. Stalemate 1.3. Pawn promotion 1.4. Domination 1.5. Positional fortresses and their destruction 1.6. Draws by perpetual check or by repetition 1.7. Other ideas and conjunction of ideas 2. Gallery of Chess Composers 2.1. Kubbel 2.2. Kasparyan 2.3. Troitzky 2.4. Rinck 2.5. Platov M. and V. 2.6. Nadareishvili 2.7. Prokesh 2.8. Chekhover 2.9. Grigoryev 2.10. Mattison 2.11. Pogosyants 2.12. Seleznyov 2.13. Kaminer 2.14. Gurvich 2.15. Reti 2.16. Duras 3. Difficulty 3.1. Studies with difficulty level 100 3.2. Studies with difficulty level 110 3.3. Studies with difficulty level 120 3.4. Studies with difficulty level 130 3.5. Studies with difficulty level 140 3.6. Studies with difficulty level 150 3.7. Studies with difficulty level 160 3.8. Studies with difficulty level 180

About

Chess Trainer Pro

Enhance your chess skills with dedicated endgame practice and a unique visualization game mode. This app offers tailored exercises for players of all levels to improve their game and progress towards mastery.

Highlights
  • Endgame trainer with over 3000 scenarios
  • Mind Meld game mode for visualization
  • Tailored exercises for all skill levels
  • Improve calculation and strategy
  • Progress towards chess mastery
Features
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Elevate your chess mastery with Chess Trainer Pro – the ultimate chess companion for aspiring grandmasters. Sharpen your skills with our dedicated endgame trainer and enhance your calculation through our unique mind meld game mode. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned player, Chess Trainer Pro offers tailored exercises and challenges to elevate your game to new heights. Experience chess training like never before and journey toward becoming a true chess master. Featured Game Modes: Endgames: Play through over 3000 endgames to win your games every time Mind Meld: Improve your visualization with this brain-twisting game mode. Play as both sides and find the only piece that can move to each highlighted square. Increase the number of pieces per side to increase the difficulty!

Screenshots

Chess Endgame Studies4 screens
Chess Trainer Pro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chess Endgame Studies at 4.8 against Chess Trainer Pro's 4.0. Chess Endgame Studies also leads on ratings volume (117 vs 5) and review sentiment (93% vs 80%). Chess Trainer Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price and ads 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. Chess Endgame Studies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chess Trainer Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess Endgame Studies holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Endgame Studies has 117 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Chess Endgame Studies's written reviews are positive against 80% of Chess Trainer Pro's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chess Endgame Studies versus Chess Trainer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Endgame StudiesChess Trainer Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (117 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews93.3% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings117 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChess KingNavin Chikkodi

Customer experience

Chess Endgame Studies

All ratings117 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

Chess Trainer Pro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess Endgame Studies

One-time1
  • Full Course$3.99
None

Chess Trainer Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess Endgame Studies free?
Chess Endgame Studies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Trainer Pro free?
Chess Trainer Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chess Endgame Studies or Chess Trainer Pro?
Chess Endgame Studies is rated higher. Chess Endgame Studies averages 4.8 out of 5 from 117 ratings, while Chess Trainer Pro averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Chess Endgame Studies or Chess Trainer Pro have ads?
Neither Chess Endgame Studies nor Chess Trainer Pro shows ads.

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