Chess Puzzles Pro
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $1.99 | Adrian Hanft | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Is there anything more fun than finding a killer checkmate combination? Do you ever wonder how many games you could have won in you were better at seeing those hidden checkmates?
This app delivers over three hundred brilliant checkmate puzzles to your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. You will be mesmerized by the incredible sacrifices and unlikely moves that result in checkmate. Whether you are new to chess or an experienced pro looking to add some flair to your endgame, Chess Puzzles Pro has something for every skill level.
- Hundreds of puzzles (mate in 1, 2, 3, 4 and up)
- Stats that record achievements as you solve puzzles
- A helpful hint button that appears if you get stuck on a particularly challenging puzzle
- A clean and beautiful interface encouraging hours of interaction
Reviews
Unusable.
Grimeyandcrass
Crashes at startup. Every time! Come on, guys. This app doesn't work. Would anyone spend money on an app because they DON'T want to use it? Give me a refund or FIX YOUR APP. You have my money, now meet your end of the bargain.
Multiple Checkmates
Rod Munchum
Some puzzles have more than one way to achieve checkmate in the correct number of turns. If you don't choose the correct option (although both are correct) you are counted as incorrect. So having one solution to each puzzle would be great. Also, the app runs a bit slow.
Chess Puzzle's Pro
Rcpradel
It has a 300 variety of patterns to solve that well surely hone your skills. Chess is 60% strategy and 40% pattern recognition.
UI is very buggy
TwoStepFeet
The UI is buggy. You move pieces by tapping once on the piece you want to move, then tapping on the square to which you're moving the piece. If you tap wrong (e.g., you tap on a square that would be an illegal move, or you tap to move the Rook then decide to tap to move the Queen), the UI gets stuck and there's no going back. The application simply doesn't work for me. Hopefully, the developer will address this. I like the idea of solving mating puzzles, but the bugs are a deal breaker.
Awful colors
ABCD1234game
The app works, but I agree with other reviewers that sometimes there is more than one solution to a puzzle. But that's okay, I can live with that. I did write to Adrian about the new awful colors and how the gray font is so hard to see, but I have not heard back. Choosing your color interface would be a plus.
Nice App - Needs iOS 7 Update
zugzwang
The pieces grow to giant size after they have been moved. The app didn't behave this way prior to installing iOS 7 on my iPad.
Just one problem
lg244
This is a fun app, but there are times when the mate can be accomplished in more than one way and if you aren't lucky enough to pick the one way the app likes you get told it's a wrong move. And I've done 334 of these and have a king rating so I'm probably right about this. For example, I just did one where White had enticed the BK onto the first rank. Mate could be administered either by moving WK-d2 or 0-0-0. I picked castling and was "wrong". On another note, I'd love one of these where the object is to win, not mate.
