Mate in 3 Puzzles
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $0.99 | Gano Technologies LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Sharpen your chess skills with Mate in 3 Puzzles! Beginners and experienced players will enjoy solving these chess problems!
This app has over 1200 interactive chess puzzles that will challenge you. The object is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in 3 moves. The puzzles consist of a large number of classical puzzles collected from a variety of sources. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Mate in 3 chess problems are especially useful for moderate to advanced chess players or anyone wanting to improve their skills.
New features added in Version 2.0 include:
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- Completely revamped chess engine that is much stronger
- Timing clock is displayed while you are working on each puzzle. How long you take to solve a puzzle is stored.
- New options: more chess piece sets (total of 7) and more colors schemes (total of 7) including wood and marble. (Improved the options menu as well)
- Social Gaming: Leaderboards to compare the number of puzzles you have solved with your friends and other players. Facebook integration - including the ability to post your progress and ask your friends for help on a puzzle.
- Universal app - works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - high resolution graphics all around (where supported).
For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps:
- Mate in 1 Puzzles
- Mate in 2 Puzzles
- Mate in 4+ Puzzles
Reviews
There great
Pumaswarcry
I love your mate apps. I have them all. Mate in 1,2,3,4+ Ty for your hard work. It's about time someone made a puzzle game. For .99 this is a must. For any rated player new players will learn a lot so will us old dogs. Ty again A fan
Gives unsolvable puzzles!
Michael Q
The AI makes erratic, non-optimal moves. Some of the problems have no solutions (the AI can't solve for them, anyway). Not what you want after scratching your head for 5 minutes!
Pawn Graphic
Dbcarroll
It would help if the black pawns were inverted to help my brain known which squares are being attacked Some puzzles it seems like black makes strange moves... Then again I am no master
Awesome.
Aettis
I like this app quite a bit. When ever I am bored I find myself testing myself against these puzzles instead apps that waste my time.
Awesome and worth it
Chessmaster of Chess
This app has 1000 or so puzzles for chess which are difficult but possible. Pros: lots of challenging puzzles that greatly improve skill Cons: Hint only lets you know the first move
too many mistakes
lefortfracture
What good is the app if many chess problems dont have a solution. I after a long time of killing yourself to find the answer you give up and have the machine tell you the answer you get a message that there is no solution... Also so many with solutions that are wrong. .i ran some questionable puzzles, bc i notice a few had spite moves which meant it was not mate in three, and i ran them in shredder to verify, and sure enough, they were not mate in three.
Fake solutions
Abjacatuee23
First puzzle that I tried, I couldn't figure out the solution, so I used the cheat button. The solution that the game gave me didn't seem right, so I plugged the setup into a chess program. Sure enough It was a mate in 4. This was just the first puzzle in the bunch. This doesn't speak good for the app.
Don't use the computer for a solution
Agjbju
Hi all, This app is excellent. The chess problems are actual problems that have been previously posted in magazines, newspapers, forums etc and have all been compiled into this app. The solutions are not always obvious, and as such, a computer may have a difficult time finding the correct move to get to mate (which is generally a very quiet move, or not a move you'd look at right away). With that being said, the solutions are written in TEXT form and are always correct. The computer doesn't refer to the text solution - it just tries to solve it (brute force) and sometimes it is wrong. Don't blame the limitations of the hardware. Every single line is written out in each of the solutions, and each solution leads to mate. If you pick up algebraic notation you'll quickly understand what I'm talking about.
