Best Chess Opening Lab Apps &amp; Games

4.7😐(591 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app offers a comprehensive chess opening manual with theoretical reviews and instructive games from grandmasters. It features detailed classifications, evaluations, and characteristics of key moves, along with interactive lessons and over 350 training exercises.

What We Love

👍 Very convenient app
👍 Ideal for practicing openings
👍 Great for chess studies
👍 Fantastic teaching tool
👍 Excellent teacher
👍 Unexpected gem
👍 Great app
👍 Very good app
👍 Easy to follow interface
👍 Animated moves are great
👍 Quizzes with hints

Room to Improve

😞 Barely any information
😞 Difficult and confusing to work
😞 No content
😞 Useless
😞 Scam
😞 Rubbish app
😞 Terrible interface
😞 No login, purchase lost
😞 Expensive
😞 No content for openings

Chess ∙ by Optime Software LLC

Strong Contender

4.5😞(205K ratings)

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#82in Games

Experience a visually appealing and engaging chess game on your iPhone and iPod Touch. Play against friends or a customizable AI opponent with features like undo and automatic saving. Enjoy a free, ad-supported experience.

What We Love

🚀 Fun to play everyday
👍 Good free game
👍 Nice little game
👍 Very good practice
👍 Addictive
👍 Great game for anyone
👍 Good app
👍 Awesome
👍 Really nice
👍 Winner
👍 Great for long flights

Room to Improve

🐛 AD crazy
🐛 Major glitches make the game impossible
🐛 Force draw
🐛 Issues, needs fixing but has potential
🐛 Disappearing Pieces
🐛 If you want to learn chess go somewhere else
🐛 Fraudulent Advertisement Included! Beware!
🐛 Ads
🐛 Pop-up ads, app freezes, phone screen freezes, and more
🐛 The game cheats
🐛 Allows the AI to cheat
🐛 Unbelievably buggy
🐛 Cheating
🐛 Cheats
🐛 Glitches
🐛 Terrible
🐛 Annoying as hell
🐛 Intrusive ads
🐛 Breaks Rules Too Often
🐛 Biggest disappointment ever
🐛 Unbelievably buggy
🐛 Cheating
🐛 Disappointing

Chessreps - Opening Repetition by Shawn Tobin

Master chess openings

Worth Considering

🔧 Utilities

3.9(25 ratings)

Free

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Master chess openings through simple repetition. Create custom playlists from thousands of opening lines and practice against a computer to expand your chess repertoire.

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Chess Opening Trainer

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Simplified interfaceMove scoring based on popularityAnalysis of over 2 million games

Learn chess openings with a simplified interface that analyzes millions of games. Moves are scored and ordered by popularity, making study straightforward. Test your knowledge with built-in quizzes.

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Chess Openings Wizard

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Design and test chess openingsFull editing and training powerSyncs with Mac and Windows versions

Chess opening trainer

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Master chess openings with an interactive trainer and comprehensive database. Build and memorize your own repertoire, compare variations, and track your progress. Works offline and offers extensive opening exploration.

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Find Your Ideal Chess Opening

Personalized chess opening recommendationsRecommendations for White and BlackMatch openings to playing style

Discover chess openings tailored to your playing style. Input your preferences like aggressiveness and tactical play to get personalized recommendations. Explore alternatives and understand why each opening suits you.

King's Cross: Chess Openings

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Consolidate chess openingsSynchronize across devicesExplore new variations

Organize your chess openings, discover new variations, and practice your repertoire. Track your progress and build confidence in your game. This app requires you to input your own opening variations.

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Chess Openings - Train, Retain

Your personal openings trainer

Master chess openings with this trainer. Memorize popular professional game sequences, explore over 1750 openings, and test your recall with randomized drills. Learn a new opening daily to enhance your chess strategy.

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Chess opening tree with statisticsEncyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO)Grandmaster repertoire database

Chess Opener PRO

Chess opening trainer

$8.99

Master chess openings with a comprehensive trainer and explorer. Analyze grandmaster repertoires, build your own opening lines, and memorize variations with interactive training. Works offline with no ads.

Coach, Puzzles, Learn & Play.

100 difficulty levelsInteractive learning coachThousands of chess puzzles

Master the game of chess with this comprehensive app. Learn step-by-step, play against adaptive AI across 100 difficulty levels, and sharpen your skills with thousands of puzzles. Enjoy offline play and track your progress with an ELO rating.

Learn Chess Openings ChessMaxx

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Chess openings and puzzles

Interactive opening trainingActive learning for retentionFaster improvement

Master chess openings with interactive training. This app helps you learn and retain opening theory faster by actively playing the moves, leading to real game improvement.

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Analyze your chess games!

Chess Opening Analyzer

$0.99

Analyze your chess games by connecting your lichess and chess.com accounts. Identify your opening strengths and weaknesses through game statistics to improve your play.

Connect lichess and chess.com accountsAnalyze game strengths and weaknessesIdentify familiar openings

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Chess Openings: Prologue

Memorize 300 openings

Learn by playing movesGuided, hinted, and memory recall modes300+ verified openings

Learn chess openings by actively playing them through guided, hinted, and memory recall stages. Build a personalized repertoire of over 300 verified openings, with spaced repetition for long-term retention. Designed for adult club players seeking a calm, distraction-free learning experience.

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Chess Prep Pro Openings

Master your openings

Custom chess opening repertoiresRepertoire training and memory sharpeningBlind spot finder against player games

Master chess openings by building custom repertoires and training your memory. Analyze opponent moves, discover blind spots, and utilize an advanced engine for in-depth preparation. Expand your knowledge with downloadable repertoires and import/export PGNs.

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Chess Openings Explorer Pro

Study & improve your openings

$3.99

Master chess openings with a comprehensive dictionary and analysis of over 2 million Grandmaster games. Test your knowledge with interactive quizzes and analyze positions using a powerful built-in engine.

Chess opening dictionaryGrandmaster game analysisInteractive quiz modes

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