Learn Chess: Beginner to Club v5.4.1
Chess KingAbout this app
Developer Description
Introduction to theory and practice, brings beginners to the club player's level
This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.
With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.
The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.
The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.
Advantages of the program:
♔ High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness
♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
♔ Different levels of complexity of the tasks
♔ Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems
♔ The program gives hint if an error is made
♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown
♔ You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Structured table of contents
♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process
♔ Test mode with flexible settings
♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises
♔ The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet
♔ The application does not require an internet connection
♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions.
What's New
* Added showing of small marks (??, ?!, !?, etc) on the board
* Show solution rating for test
* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!
* Various fixes and improvements
In-app purchases
$11.99 per item
Version Information
- Version
- 5.4.1
- Downloads
- 1M+
- Updated on
- Nov 10, 2025
- Released
- Apr 24, 2015
- Requires
- Android 7.0
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Learn Chess: Beginner to Club users say on Google Play
Excellent! Installed as a lapsed amateur and it really helped me get back into the groove. Very generous free version, thank you - will definitely be buying the full app now. Explanations are thorough and clear (10/10 for actually having text I can skim instead of making me watch a video). Puzzles are appropriately challenging (for the level) and also explore blunders and weak lines. Really like the customisation options! Wd be nice to be able to flip the board to study openings as black.
Seems really well-made but usually there's no reason to pay for this stuff as it can be found for free. Perhaps if the UI was designed better and this app was made to be closer to a "categorised wiki page" providing materials and lessons for beginners, intermediate, advanced, and other categories, then it would have been a 5 stars because the current system is rather odd. If the dev ever plans on doing an overhaul then I recommend looking at the app "sololearn". The course format there is great.
If I likened this app to being a learner driver, it's a bit like enjoying the initial getting to use first gear and the brakes in the car park for the first part and then being challenged to negotiate the local town centre in the second part, with no real feedback as to why you're doing right or wrong before the instructor declares the lesson over. Will persevere...
Even though I bought this I found the interface to be a challenge to get to grips with and I found myself giving up many times. Very confusing which is a pity as there is so much good content but the layout is so non-intuitive.
This app is not worth your time. They only give narrow-minded solutions but in reality, there are many ways how to solve their given task or puzzle.
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