Steinitz vs Chess Trainer Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steinitz
Master chess by studying the games of a legendary World Champion. Engage in interactive lessons, solve tactical puzzles, and play against the computer to improve your skills. Offers hints, explanations, and refutations for mistakes, with a free section to test its features.
- Study 517 games of a World Champion
- 55 training exercises
- Play like and against Steinitz
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Hints and mistake refutations
- Offline play
- Rating (ELO) monitoring
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All 517 games played by the legendary World Champion. 55 exercises: play like Steinitz and play against Steinitz. 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. 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. Combinations 1.1. Play like Steinitz 1.2. Play against Steinitz 2. Games 2.1. 1862-1866 2.2. 1867-1880 2.3. 1881-1889 2.4. 1890-1895 2.5. 1896-1899
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.
- 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
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Steinitz at 4.9 against Chess Trainer Pro's 4.0. Steinitz also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (15 vs 5). 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
Both are free to download. Steinitz sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chess Trainer Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Steinitz holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively.
| Parameter | Steinitz | Chess Trainer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better | 4.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chess King | Navin Chikkodi |
Customer experience
Steinitz
Chess Trainer Pro
In-app purchases
Steinitz
- Full Course$3.99
Chess Trainer Pro
No in-app purchases
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