Openings Mastermind vs Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Openings Mastermind
Master chess openings with this app. Import studies, explore with advanced engines, and practice specific lines through repetition. Track your progress and improve your game.
- Import Lichess Studies or PGNs
- Explore openings with Stockfish 15
- Practice openings by repetition
- Smart practice queue
- Track learning progress
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Get ready to take your chess game to the next level with Openings Mastermind, the ultimate chess opening app! Some of the features include: - Import Lichess Studies or custom PGNs - Explore openings with Stockfish 17 and the Lichess position database - Practice openings by repetition against your own custom openings database - Take advantage of the smart practice queue and improve your learning - Observe your learning progress in different openings With our app, you can take your opening game to the next level by practicing against the specific lines you want to master. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, our app is the perfect tool to help you improve your opening moves and become a better chess player. Planned Features: - Continue against engine, after study line ends - Analysis of your games from Lichess and Chess.com compared to your openings database
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Improve your chess skills with an extensive library of puzzles that adapt to your level. Analyze positions with a powerful engine and train specific tactics and endgames. Play offline and track your progress with a personalized Elo rating.
- Unlimited free chess puzzles
- Adaptive difficulty with puzzle Elo
- Offline play
- Stockfish engine analysis
- 56 puzzle themes
- Review missed puzzles
- Customizable board themes
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Unlimited free chess puzzles. The fastest way to get better at chess. • 200,000+ chess puzzles, from beginner to master • Over 4 million puzzles played by 50,000+ players • Your own puzzle Elo that climbs as you improve • Play offline anywhere, no account needed • Analyze any position with Stockfish, the world's strongest chess engine Five minutes a day is all it takes. Chess Puzzles & Tactics serves every rated chess puzzle at exactly your level, so you are always challenged and never bored. Solve, watch your rating climb, and start seeing the winning move before your opponent does. Win more games with chess tactics The tactics that decide real games are all here: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, deflection and sacrifices. Drill checkmate puzzles from mate in 1 and mate in 2 to long mating attacks, then convert winning positions with chess endgame training: pawn and rook endgames, opposition and promotion. Built to make you better • Puzzles that adapt to you. Your puzzle Elo starts at 1000 and moves with every solve. Let the app pick the difficulty, or set your own Elo range. • 56 puzzle themes. Train only checkmates, only endgames, or the exact tactic you keep missing. • Fix your weak spots. Missed puzzles go to your review list, and spaced repetition brings them back until the pattern sticks. • Hints and engine analysis. Stuck? Take a hint, or analyze the position with the built-in Stockfish chess engine and evaluation bar, right on your device. • Watch yourself improve. The Elo graph shows your daily rating gains, and the History tab keeps every puzzle you have played. • Chess puzzles and tactics offline. Download puzzle packs and solve on a plane, on the subway, anywhere. Results sync when you are back online. • Your rating everywhere. Sign in to sync across your phone, tablet and chesspuzzles.io. • Make it yours with 28 board themes, 9 piece sets, and sounds and haptics you control. What you can train • Checkmate puzzles: mate in 1, mate in 2, mate in 3 and longer, back-rank mates, mating nets, smothered mates • Chess tactics: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, double checks, deflection, overloading, zwischenzug, sacrifices • King safety and defense: attacks on the castled king, perpetual check, stalemate tricks, defensive moves • Chess endgame training: pawn and rook endgames, opposition, passed pawns, zugzwang, promotion • Positional patterns: knight outposts, rooks on the seventh, the bishop pair, Alekhine's gun and more Chess training for every level Beginners learn basic checkmates and simple chess tactics with hints. Club players sharpen calculation and pattern recognition. Strong players set a high Elo range and crack hard combinations. It adapts to you like a personal chess trainer. Unlimited chess puzzles, free Download free and solve as many chess puzzles as you want. Open the app and start solving in seconds, whether you have two minutes or a full session of chess practice. Your next rating jump is one puzzle away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Openings Mastermind at none against Chess Puzzles & Tactics's 1. Openings Mastermind also leads on ads (none vs shown). Chess Puzzles & Tactics's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 50%) and ratings volume (490 vs 6). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Chess Puzzles & Tactics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Openings Mastermind asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Puzzles & Tactics holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Puzzles & Tactics has 490 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Openings Mastermind's written reviews are positive against 76% of Chess Puzzles & Tactics's.
Openings Mastermind ships an update fortnightly, Chess Puzzles & Tactics weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Openings Mastermind | Chess Puzzles & Tactics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (490 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 76.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 490 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Heise | Sajed Nahian |
Customer experience
Openings Mastermind
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Bugs and requests
Openings Mastermind
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Reported bugs
18 issues- Unable to login
- Application resets to starting value (1000elo)
- History/review chapters remain unlocked
- In-application feedback not functioning
- Rating feature broke
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- Ability to control puzzle strength broke
- Scanning thing after opening app continues forever
- App resets ELO to 1000
- Undo button disappears
- Tapping to select a piece stops working
- Analysis breaks
- Viewing history doesn’t work
- App crashes
- View History tab page never loads
- App forgets login and starts from ELO = 0
- Analysis button messed up
- App hangs after pressing 'log in'
- Puzzles freeze, no way of moving pieces
Requested features
4 requests- Option to mute sounds
- Ability to disable audio
- Allow loading custom puzzle sets
- Better interface and cable
In-app purchases
Openings Mastermind
No in-app purchases
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
- Ad-Free Forever$3.99
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