Comparison

Weird Chess vs Simple Chess Trainer

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

Head to head
About

Weird Chess

Features
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Check out Weird Chess! Like using tapatillo instead of ketchup, but for chess. Choose from 12+ variants across two board sizes โ€” and more on the way. Each variant with its own rules, strategy, and personality. 8ร—8 Variants Standard Chess โ€” classic rules, plus an attacking pigeon that randomly moves your or your opponent's pieces. Atomic Chess โ€” where pieces trying to capture each other create mutually assured destruction. Chess960 โ€” 960 different randomised starting positions for all pieces. 3-Check โ€” one checkmate not enough? With this variant, you need 3 checks to win. King of the Hill โ€” race your king to the centre and declare yourself lord of all you see. Horde Chess โ€” face the barbarian horde - or be it! 36 white pawns vs a standard black army Fog of War โ€” you can only see the squares your pieces attack. 10ร—10 Variants Grand Chess โ€” the pomp and circumstance of war, with a Marshal and a Cardinal in the royal courtly mix. Omega Chess โ€” go to war with an additional champion and a wizard. One does not simply walk! Decimal Chess โ€” a falcon and a hunter make your game a little stranger. Hyderabad Chess โ€” one of the earliest historic forms of actual ancient chess. Jetan Chess โ€” a form of chess created for the science fantasy classic Chessman of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Every move is narrated by an AI commentator with a unique personality โ€” from the composed Classical analyst to the chaos-loving Random Pigeon. Find your way and shake up your chess habits with some different kinds of play.

About

Simple Chess Trainer

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Simple Chess Trainer is a focused practice tool for chess players who want faster board recognition, sharper annotation skills (for beginners), and tighter opening repertoire memory (for all levels) โ€” all free, with no subscriptions or accounts. Square Recognition. Drill all 64 squares with timed sessions, custom filters (whole board, light/dark only, ranks 1โ€“4, etc.), and a focus list that biases toward squares you've missed in the last 90 days. Toggle coordinates off when you're ready to find squares from memory. Annotation Drill for Beginners. Step through any PGN game move-by-move, identify mistakes, and let the engine queue tough positions for review. The Review Queue surfaces moves you've gotten wrong three times running until you've beaten them three times in a row. Opening Repertoire & Move Trainer (All levels). Drag the right move (or type it) for both sides of any game or opening line in your library. The new Random Review mode picks games weighted by how much you've struggled โ€” your hardest lines surface first; mastered ones come up rarely so you don't drill what you already know. Library. Import any standard PGN file to build your own repertoire or review your own games. The app indexes thousands of games in seconds and ships with 20 verified historical classics on first launch โ€” Morphy's Opera Game, Anderssen's Immortal, the Game of the Century, Kasparov's Immortal, and more. Stats. 7-day / 30-day / 90-day / all-time views of accuracy, response time, square-error heatmap, piece-error breakdown, and per-game Move Trainer mastery. Export everything as JSON anytime. Works fully offline. Private by default. Every drill, import, and statistic stays on your device. No accounts, no servers, no chess-data analytics, no subscriptions โ€” ever. Ads are served by Google AdMob and gated by App Tracking Transparency; remove them permanently with a one-time in-app purchase. Designed for iPhone and iPad. Built for iOS 18.

Screenshots

Weird Chess4 screens
Simple Chess Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Weird Chess at none against Simple Chess Trainer's 1. Weird Chess also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Chess Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Weird Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Weird Chess versus Simple Chess Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeird ChessSimple Chess Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size21 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames BeachOleksandr Ioffe

In-app purchases

None

Weird Chess

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Chess Trainer

One-time1
  • Remove All Adds (One-Time)$12.99

Questions

Is Weird Chess free?
Weird Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Chess Trainer free?
Simple Chess Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Weird Chess or Simple Chess Trainer have ads?
Simple Chess Trainer shows ads; Weird Chess does not.

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