Chess vs CCT Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess
Learn chess openings and endgames through a unique four-stage process: follow, understand, practice, and challenge. Master tactics with over 240 puzzles and play against four AI opponents. Core features are available offline.
- Four-stage learning flow
- Opening and endgame courses
- Tactics puzzle training
- Four AI opponents
- Progress and ELO tracking
- Offline core features
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One move at a time. Chess gets clearer. Chess Master breaks every opening and endgame into four learning stages — Follow, Understand, Practice, and Challenge — so you meet each line four times in a row and the moves start to feel inevitable. Study the line, understand the reasoning, reproduce it from memory, then face an AI that plays the same opening against you — learning and real matches in one flow. Four-Stage Learning Flow 1. Follow — Tap each move in sequence, tracing the line by hand. 2. Understand — Watch the line auto-play while you read why each move wins. 3. Practice — Reproduce the sequence from memory, no hints. 4. Challenge — Play an AI that uses the same opening against you. Main Features - Four-Stage Learning Flow: Meet every opening and endgame four times through Follow, Understand, Practice, and Challenge until the moves feel natural. - Opening and Endgame Courses: Sixteen classic openings and sixteen essential endgames, every move annotated with the reasoning behind it. Star ratings track your mastery. - Tactics Puzzle Training: Over 240 puzzles across six themes — fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, mate in N, and back rank — with ELO-based difficulty matching and a daily puzzle streak. - Four AI Opponents: Bots ranging from ELO 600 to 1600, each with a distinct playing style. Configurable chess clock, move history, captured pieces, and takeback. - Progress and ELO Tracking: Puzzle ELO over time, win and loss per bot, course completion with star ratings, and stats filtered by week, month, three months, or all time. Good For - First-time chess learners - Casual players who want to study openings systematically - Intermediate players drilling tactics to break plateaus - Anyone who wants to practice alone without a local opponent or coach Core features run fully offline and no account is required. The app is supported by AdMob advertising; an App Tracking Transparency prompt appears on first launch for device identifier use. Feedback and bug reports are welcome at seungwoo321@gmail.com. One move at a time — let us keep going together.
CCT Chess
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CCT Chess is a quick way to practise finding checks, captures, and threats. Start a puzzle and scan the position one category at a time. Tap or drag to identify moves. Review anything you missed, then move straight to the next puzzle. Features: - Checks, captures, and threats in three short phases - Clear move feedback and missed-move review - Local rating that adapts puzzle difficulty as you improve - Rating history and accuracy in Settings > Progress - Board themes, piece styles, and optional hidden move counts - Offline play with a bundled puzzle database - No accounts, ads, analytics, or tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CCT Chess at none against Chess's shown. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Chess | CCT Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SEUNGWOO LEE | Michael Yip |
In-app purchases
Chess
No in-app purchases
CCT Chess
No in-app purchases









