Test Your Chess vs Play960
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!
Play960
Generate random Chess960 positions for over-the-board play. You can view positions by number, reverse lookup using a piece keyboard, and customize the display. Easily copy FEN notation to other apps.
- Generate random Chess960 positions
- View positions by number
- Reverse lookup with piece keyboard
- Customizable display options
- Copy/paste FEN notation
- Full-screen mode
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This is a Chess960 (Freestyle Chess, a.k.a. Fischer Random) position generator for over-the-board (OTB) play. With this app you can: • Generate a random Chess960 position. • Show position as white, black, or FEN. • Find a Chess960 position by entering a number between 0 and 959. • Reverse Lookup: Use a piece keyboard to obtain the position number. Select each piece, or use the "1" or fast-forward button to randomize either the next square or remainder of the position. • Full Screen Mode: Show the position for both white and black in setup or board view. • Configure the display: Auto full-screen, square colors, figurines or letters, FEN castling symbols. • Copy/paste the position or FEN into another app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Play960 at Free against Test Your Chess's $0.99. Play960 also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). Test Your Chess's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Play960 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.
Play960 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Test Your Chess ships an update every 8 months, Play960 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Test Your Chess | Play960 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oak Snow Consulting LLC | Claude Banta |
Customer experience
Test Your Chess
Play960
In-app purchases
Test Your Chess
No in-app purchases
Play960
No in-app purchases
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