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Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) v5.4.1

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About this app

Developer Description

If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces!

If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces from being taken! Every chessplayer has to master and consolidate some basic defensive skills such as withdrawing or protecting a piece, interception or attacking an opponent's piece. Having consolidated your knowledge by doing a great number of exercises you will be able to improve your level of playing. This course includes more than 2800 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners.

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.

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
♔ 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 before releasing the following topics:
1. Retreat
2. Defending with another piece
3. Taking an attacking piece
4. Interception
5. Defending from mate
6. Difficulty level

What's New

* Improved support for Android 15+ devices
* 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
50K+
Updated on
Nov 6, 2025
Released
Jun 30, 2016
Requires
Android 7.0

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Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) users say on Google Play

★★★★★
Jim Hoffman Jim Hoffman

These are chess puzzles. They are challenging at first but after a while you will see patterns and the solutions become easier and faster. That what chess is, recognizing patterns that your opponent doesn't see. I am very pleased with this app. I work with it every day.

7 Nov 2, 2021
★★★★
A Google user A Google user

it helps me to see patterns

8 Jul 10, 2019

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