Best Chess Puzzles Apps &amp; Games

4.6😊(15K ratings)

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Enhance your chess skills with hundreds of challenging chess problems and puzzles. This app focuses on simplified boards to help you quickly recognize chess patterns and improve your game.

What We Love

🚀 Improved chess skills
👍 Challenging yet fun puzzles
🤩 Addictive and engaging
🧠 Helps develop tactical thinking
📈 Tracks progress and skill level

Room to Improve

🙄 Excessive ads
💰 Expensive to remove ads
🐛 Some puzzles have issues
🤔 Opponent moves don't always make sense

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) by Emmanuel Mathis

Practice puzzles every day

Strong Contender

4.7😊(3.7K ratings)

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Sharpen your chess skills with a vast library of puzzles for all levels. Practice daily, offline, or track your progress with adaptive challenges. Analyze your moves with a built-in engine and customize your experience with various themes.

What We Love

👍 Simple and easy to use
🚀 Offline functionality
💡 Wide variety of puzzles
🎯 Helpful for improving tactics
🕰️ Daily puzzles of varying difficulty
💰 Reasonable pricing for additional content

Room to Improve

🐛 Some puzzles have flawed or ambiguous solutions
🤔 Difficulty levels not always accurate
📊 Lack of explanation for best moves
🔀 Inability to accept alternative winning solutions

Chess Puzzles & Tactics by Sajed Nahian

Mates, Endgames, Elo Range

Worth Considering

Chess.com - Play and Learn

4.5😐(478 ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

Enhance your chess skills with an extensive collection of puzzles and tactical exercises. Tailor your training by customizing puzzle difficulty and Elo ratings to target specific weaknesses and accelerate improvement, suitable for players of all levels.

What We Love

🆓 Free to use, no ads
♾️ Seemingly endless puzzles
🧠 Great for chess improvement
👍 Simple and easy to use interface
🎯 Puzzles tailored to skill level
🚫 No annoying bells and whistles
✨ Ads free and no in-app purchases
💪 Effective for gaining ELO
💯 Developer got everything right

Room to Improve

🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
🔄 Progress resets (ELO, history)
⚠️ Login issues (Apple/Google)
⏳ Puzzles take a long time to load
🥶 Freezes and crashes
🔊 Cannot disable in-app audio
🤔 Review prompts are persistent

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