Comparison

Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles vs Chess's Challenge

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles

Engage in over 1000 interactive chess puzzles designed to sharpen your tactical skills. Force checkmates within 4 to 8 moves, with a revamped engine and timing features to track your progress. Compete with friends on leaderboards and share your achievements.

Highlights
  • 1000+ interactive chess puzzles
  • Force checkmate in 4-8 moves
  • Revamped, stronger chess engine
  • Timing clock and solve time tracking
  • 7 chess piece sets and color schemes
  • Leaderboards for social comparison
  • Facebook integration for sharing and help
Features
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The Ultimate mate in 4 moves chess puzzle app! Sharpen your chess skills with Mate in 4 Puzzles! Experienced players and anyone looking for a good challenge will enjoy solving these chess problems! This app has 1000 interactive chess puzzles that will challenge you. The object is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in 4 to 8 moves. The puzzles consist of a large number of classical puzzles collected from a variety of sources. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Mate in 4+ chess problems are especially useful for more advanced chess players or anyone wanting to improve their skills. New features added in Version 2.0 include: ------------------------------ - Completely revamped chess engine that is much stronger - Timing clock is displayed while you are working on each puzzle. How long you take to solve a puzzle is stored. - New options: more chess piece sets (total of 7) and more colors schemes (total of 7) including wood and marble. (Improved the options menu as well) - Social Gaming: Leaderboards to compare the number of puzzles you have solved with your friends and other players. Facebook integration - including the ability to post your progress and ask your friends for help on a puzzle. - Universal app - works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - high resolution graphics all around (where supported). For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps: - Mate in 1 Puzzles - Mate in 2 Puzzles - Mate in 3 Puzzles

About

Chess's Challenge

Engage in unlimited chess matches against friends or the computer. This app offers a simple user interface for a classic strategy board game experience. Improve your skills by playing against increasingly challenging AI opponents.

Highlights
  • Unlimited chess games
  • Play against friends
  • Play against computer AI
  • Simple user interface
  • Skill improvement against AI
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Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. In this game of chess, you will be able to play chess games in unlimited numbers. it provides options to play with friends and computer.Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have been programmed to play chess with increasing success, to the point where the strongest personal computers play at a higher level than the best human players. So make you skills to strong by playing with computer.it also provide simple UI to play game. So, Play and Enjoy...

Screenshots

Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles4 screens
Chess's Challenge3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chess's Challenge at Free against Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles's $0.99. Chess's Challenge also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Chess's Challenge is free to download; Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles versus Chess's Challenge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMate in 4+ Chess PuzzlesChess's Challenge
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGano Technologies LLCDhruv Manavadaria

Customer experience

Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Chess's Challenge

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles

No in-app purchases

None

Chess's Challenge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles free?
Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess's Challenge free?
Chess's Challenge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles or Chess's Challenge?
Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles is rated higher. Mate in 4+ Chess Puzzles averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Chess's Challenge averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.

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