Test Your Chess vs BlueChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Test Your Chess
Assess your chess skills with three established tests developed by chess masters. Track your progress, save your work, and compare your scores with others.
- Three comprehensive chess ability tests
- Save and resume tests
- Game Center integration
- 3 hours of testing material
- Tests for all skill levels
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Ever wonder how good a chess player you really are? What your rating should/would be? Are you a chess master? Test Your Chess contains three established, definitive tests of chess ability developed by International Master Dr. Danny Kopec and Life Master Hal Terrie. These chess masters have been developing a system to test chess ability for decades and Test Your Chess contains a range of their tests for players of every ability. Test Your Chess Features Include: - Three comprehensive 45 minute tests that have stood the test of time - The Novice Test, The Intermediate Test, and the Bratko-Kopec Test (an advanced industry standard test for testing computer and human chess strength) - Save and resume a test if you get interrupted - Game Center integration for high scores and achievements - Brag to your friends about how great a player you are - 3 hours of testing material - The only comprehensive tests of chess ability in the world!
BlueChess
Engage in strategic gameplay with powerful chess engines. Choose between the BlueChess engine or the highly-rated Stockfish engine for your matches.
- Play against BlueChess engine
- Play against Stockfish engine
- Strategic gameplay
- Free to play
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Play a game of chess against the BlueChess engine or the Stockfish engine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BlueChess at 50% against Test Your Chess's 0%. BlueChess also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Test Your Chess's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
BlueChess is free to download; Test Your Chess costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BlueChess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Test Your Chess's written reviews are positive against 50% of BlueChess's.
Test Your Chess ships an update every 8 months, BlueChess every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Test Your Chess | BlueChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oak Snow Consulting LLC | GreenChess.com |
Customer experience
Test Your Chess
BlueChess
In-app purchases
Test Your Chess
No in-app purchases
BlueChess
No in-app purchases
Questions
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