Chess Combinations Vol. 2 vs Chess ⁺
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Combinations Vol. 2
This app offers over 2600 chess exercises and examples, categorized by tactical methods. It acts as a personal coach, providing hints, explanations, and refutations to help improve your chess skills and learn new combinations.
- Over 2600 chess exercises
- 60 tactical methods and motifs
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Personalized coaching with hints
- Refutations for common mistakes
- Offline play capability
- Rating (ELO) monitoring
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The fundamental chess program for club players. This second part includes more than 2600 exercises (more than 400 examples to explore and 2200 to solve), classified in 60 tactical methods and motifs. 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. Forcing moves 1.1. Forced checkmate 1.2. Double attack 1.3. Linear attack 1.4. Discovered attack 1.5. Pin 1.6. Elimination of defense 1.7. Conjunction of several themes 2. Deflection 2.1. Deflection checkmate 2.2. Deflection of a piece 2.3. Diversion from the invasion square 2.4. Piece on a critical square 2.5. Diversion in conjunction with a double attack 2.6. Diversion from defending square 2.7. Diversion from the promotion square 2.8. Diversion from the advance square 2.9. Diversion of a pinning piece 2.10. Deflection blocking piece 2.11. Diversion from a key square 2.12. Diverting a defending piece 2.13. Diversion in conjunction with a linear attack 3. Decoying 3.1. Decoying mate 3.2. Decoying a king in conjunction with a chase 3.3. Decoying into a mating net 3.4. Decoying under a double attack 3.5. Decoying under a linear attack 3.6. Decoying under a discovered attack 3.7. Decoying under a discovered attack with check 3.8. Decoying discovered check 3.9. Decoying under a double check 3.10. Decoying to a critical square 3.11. Decoying under pin 3.12. Decoying into a trap 3.13. Decoy in conjunction with promoting pawn 3.14. Decoying under check 3.15. Decoying for the gain of tempo 3.16. Decoying onto an unfavourable line 3.17. Decoying into a stalemate position 3.18. Decoying under perpetual check 3.19. Miscellaneous decoying 4. Exercises with conjunction of several themes 4.1. Exercises with conjunction of several themes 4.2. Exercises 1 4.3. Exercises 2 5. Elimination of defense 6. Blockade 7. Clearing the checkmating square 8. Interception 9. Clearing the line 10. Opening the line 11. Pin 12. Restricting 13. Threat 14. Conquering a square 15. Exercises. Сonjunction of tactical devices
Chess ⁺
Enhance your chess abilities with this comprehensive training application. It offers a vast array of puzzles, tactical exercises, and learning modes for players of all levels. Track your progress with live statistics and enjoy a visually engaging experience.
- 2D & 3D chess pieces
- Hundreds of levels
- Thousands of exercises
- Tactics training
- Opening and endgame practice
- Checkmate puzzles
- Learning mode with hints
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The most advanced chess training app. Improve your skills, learn tactics and strategies. Chess + was created with the goal to improve chess skills of every player. This app is perfect for any amateur or professional. Difficulty of tasks is dynamically adjusted to the skills and previous performance. Features: ● 2D & 3D chess pieces ● Hundreds of levels ● Thousands of exercises ● Tactics training ● Opening and endgame training and practice ● Checkmate puzzles ● Time and move limit puzzles ● Learning mode with best move hints ● Play chess in infinite rematch fights ● Live chess statistics and leaderboards ● Game boosters ● Mistake preventing (Learn how to play without mistakes in your chess games) ● Amazing 3D chess world, with cartoon graphics. ● No advertising Chess + is an offline application. You don't need internet to play online, but you can switch to online play using our other app. Play chess and learn various strategies and compare your results with friends. Chess + is completely free to play app, but you can purchase some optional in-game items. Download this free chess game and let the journey begin!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Chess ⁺ at 2.9K against Chess Combinations Vol. 2's 28. Chess Combinations Vol. 2's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Chess Combinations Vol. 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess ⁺ sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Chess Combinations Vol. 2 against 4.7 for Chess ⁺. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess ⁺ has 2.9K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Chess Combinations Vol. 2's written reviews are positive against 85% of Chess ⁺'s.
Chess Combinations Vol. 2 ships an update every 3 months, Chess ⁺ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Combinations Vol. 2 | Chess ⁺ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (28 ratings) | 4.7 (2.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 2.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Chess King | Entertainment 4Media AG |
Customer experience
Chess Combinations Vol. 2
Chess ⁺
Bugs and requests
Chess Combinations Vol. 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Chess ⁺
Reported bugs
3 issues- AI freezing and not making moves
- Game progress and achievements being reset
- Connectivity issues with login and cloud sync
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to analyze and save past games
- Option to play against other users online
- More advanced training modes and challenges
In-app purchases
Chess Combinations Vol. 2
- Full course$12.99
Chess ⁺
- 10 Gem Pack$0.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
- 50 Gem Pack$4.99
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- 100 Gem Pack$9.99
- 250 Gem Pack$19.99
- 500 Gem Pack$36.99
- 1000 Gem Pack$69.99
Questions
Is Chess Combinations Vol. 2 free?
Is Chess ⁺ free?
Which has better reviews, Chess Combinations Vol. 2 or Chess ⁺?
Do Chess Combinations Vol. 2 or Chess ⁺ have ads?
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