Magnus Trainer - Train Chess Reviews – Page 8
5/5 rating based on 241 reviews. Read all reviews for Magnus Trainer - Train Chess for iPhone.
Magnus Trainer - Train Chess is free iOS app published by Play Magnus AS
Stop with the timed games already
Mike of many
This is a fantastic product overall, but I am sick of clicking on seashells and chasing blinking dots. I know how a queen moves already at session 35 on Medium difficulty. I don’t need to keep losing timed challenges. I just want to learn how to play chess.
Amazing app, great results!
buttery dog
Since finishing the app's course, my rating on lichess.org has increased by 250 points in less than a month for both bullet and blitz, with no sign of slowing down. The courses are great, better than reading any chess book. Well organized lessons and puzzles made to strengthen all-around chess skills, and throughout, you feel like Magnus himself is talking to you personally. Worth every penny.
Opening reinforcement
dwdsddcd
The app should do far more to encourage retention of learned concepts and openings. As it currently stands, the app drops some knowledge, and boom, it’s never seen again. Please implement features to encourage retention.
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cudderguchi
I can’t even tell what pieces are what. Terrible old fashioned piece design.
Eh
rj90909090
The app teaches chess in a format that allows people to carry over what they learn over to real games relatively easy, which I like. It gives a good bearing on fundamentals and basics and is overall a great app to learn from. However, I have to rate it two stars because of how the course path is horribly set up. You can’t skip through lessons that you don’t need to learn, so if you want to continue you have to suffer through learning what you already knew. But most importantly, the Raja’s riddle game needs serious tweaking. Some of the puzzles can be solved in multiple ways but the app only recognizes one. Furthermore, if you choose the wrong motif/mate, it doesn’t let you see the right answer, which holds back learning more than anything. Lastly, it’s stupid that you can’t skip the games in the lessons when it never tells you the right answers so you can learn anyway.
App crashes
gou24
Since the new update I’m unable to use this app. I’m paying every month without being able to use it. So planning to cancel subscription
Good for fun
sMerickr
It’s helping a hit - a lot of the lessons are pay2play but it seems nice from what I’ve done so far Nice little mini games to kill time but it’s less of a “trainer” and more of a resource A trainer would be like, this app does a game against you and finds your weaknesses This app more of just provides all the resources for you to learn and expects ya to study - which I do Overall, good app but not the best it could be (MILES better than Chess.com though so that’s a plus, thanks Magnus :) )
Best Chess app so far.
GOODFELLOW2020
This app is very engaging and follows the pedagogy that works; ABC = activity before content. Very useful. Thanks.