Chess vs Tangle Ropes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess
Enhance your chess skills with over 1500 tactical exercises drawn from real games. This app provides hints, explanations, and refutations to help beginners improve their play and learn new combinations. It acts as a personal coach, adapting to your progress and offering interactive lessons.
- Over 1500 tactical exercises
- Hints and explanations
- Refutations of mistakes
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Progress monitoring (ELO rating)
- Offline play
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If you are a beginner, you just cannot afford to give away your piece in 1 move, presuming, of course, that you wish to improve your play! Another thing you cannot afford is to miss a chance of grabbing an undefended piece of your opponent's! This course includes more than 1500 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners. The course is intended for players who are already acquainted with the rules of the game. Even if you study and solve only 20% of exercises you are sure to improve your chess skills and not to miss a chance to take an undefended piece in your practical game! All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. 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 • 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. Part 1 1.1. Winning a knight 1.2. Winning a bishop 1.3. Winning a rook 1.4. Winning a queen 2. Part 2. Win a piece 2.1. Level 1 2.2. Level 2 2.3. Level 3 2.4. Level 4 2.5. Level 5 2.6. Level 6 2.7. Level 7 2.8. Level 8
Tangle Ropes
A relaxing puzzle game where you untangle colored ropes on a grid. Manipulate the ropes by switching positions, rotating, flipping, and changing colors to successfully untie them all.
- Untangle colored ropes
- Grid-based puzzle
- Switch positions
- Rotate angles
- Flip up and down
- Change rope colors
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“Tangle Ropes" is a Relax and Untangle Game. HOW TO PLAY? -------------- 1. On the six Palace grid, some colored ropes are distributed in random order; 2. You can adjust the board layout by switching positions, rotating angles, flipping up and down, and changing colors; 3. Make all color ropes untied to make the challenge successful -------------- We appreciate any feedback you may have and will apply it to future updates and features. With your continued support we'll do our best to turn out quality Apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tangle Ropes at none against Chess's 1. Tangle Ropes also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Chess's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tangle Ropes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Chess's written reviews are positive against 75% of Tangle Ropes's.
Chess ships an update every 6 weeks, Tangle Ropes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess | Tangle Ropes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better | 4.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chess King | 其跃 吴 |
Customer experience
Chess
Tangle Ropes
In-app purchases
Chess
- Full course$3.99
Tangle Ropes
No in-app purchases
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