Chess King - Learn to Play

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4.5
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About this game

Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/) is a unique collection of chess education courses. It includes 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 program, 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 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.

Some courses contain 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.

App features:
♔ 100+ courses in one app. Choose the most suitable one!
♔ Chess learning. Hints are shown in case of errors
♔ High quality puzzles, all double-checked for correctness
♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher
♔ Refutations are played for typical mistaken moves
♔ Computer analysis is available for any position
♔ Interactive theoretical lessons
♔ Chess tasks for kids
♔ Chess analysis & opening tree
♔ Choose your board theme and 2D chess pieces
♔ ELO rating history is saved
♔ Test mode with flexible settings
♔ Bookmarks for favorite exercises
♔ Tablets support
♔ Full offline support
♔ Chess King account linking is available for simultaneous learning from any device on Android, iOS, macOS and Web

Each course includes a free part, in which you can test the program and exercises. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before purchasing a full version. Each course should be bought separately, but you can buy a subscription which gives you an access to all courses for a limited time.

You can study the following courses in the app:
♔ Learn Chess: From Beginner to Club Player
♔ Chess Strategy & Tactics
♔ Chess Tactics Art (1400-1800 ELO)
♔ Bobby Fischer
♔ Manual of Chess Combinations
♔ Chess Tactics for Beginners
♔ Advanced Defense (Chess Puzzles)
♔ Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
♔ Total Chess Endgames (1600-2400 ELO)
♔ CT-ART. Chess Mate Theory
♔ Chess Middlegame
♔ CT-ART 4.0 (Chess Tactics 1200-2400 ELO)
♔ Mate in 1, 2, 3-4
♔ Elementary Chess Tactics
♔ Chess Opening Blunders
♔ Chess Endings for Beginners
♔ Chess Opening Lab (1400-2000)
♔ Chess Endgame Studies
♔ Capturing Pieces
♔ Sergey Karjakin - Elite Chess Player
♔ Chess Tactics in Sicilian Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in French Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Caro-Kann Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Grünfeld Defense
♔ Chess School for Beginners
♔ Chess Tactics in Scandinavian Defense
♔ Mikhail Tal
♔ Simple Defense
♔ Magnus Carlsen - Chess Champion
♔ Chess Tactics in King's Indian Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Open Games
♔ Chess Tactics in Slav Defense
♔ Chess Tactics in Volga Gambit
♔ Garry Kasparov
♔ Viswanathan Anand
♔ Vladimir Kramnik
♔ Alexander Alekhine
♔ Mikhail Botvinnik
♔ Emanuel Lasker
♔ Jose Raul Capablanca
♔ Encyclopedia Chess Combinations Informant
♔ Wilhelm Steinitz
♔ Universal Chess Opening: 1. d4 2. Nf3 3. e3
♔ Manual of Chess Strategy
♔ Chess: A Positional Opening Repertoire
♔ Chess: An Aggressive Opening Repertoire
Updated on
Jul 18, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity, and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.6
13.1K reviews
Zen Balancer (Gaia's)
November 8, 2020
Awesome quality! And various tactics and strategies. I can take over playing the game or start engine driven analysis anywhere I want! In the practice exercises as well as the theory sections! I can even setup the board any way I want! The entire UX does need getting used to, but it was so worth it to me. Lifetime/forever/💯 years subscription available on the website which includes all (future) courses on all platforms! I got it with 20% December discount! Happy customer since 2019!
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Baaligh Rajeel
June 19, 2025
Wow. I've been using the app for like 6 months and Wow. I've never experienced a chess app better than this one for studying anything in chess, Endgames, middlesgames, tactics and strategies all in one app. it's very amazing and user friendly, if your not rich and can't buy the premium version you still can learn alot for free. Thank you sooo much developers for such a wonderful app. now I'm heading to 1500 elo after 7 months of playing because I study alot in this app, including sacrifices.
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Mayday_Watson MR
July 11, 2025
Great app for puzzles, there's nearly innumerable positions and various themes- and the tactics yearly subscription is a good value. I haven't used it for studying openings or playing games, although it can also be used that way.
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What’s new

* Try the Maximum subscription with the 50% discount for the new subscribers!
* Added play blocks in the University. You can play with engine or use opening training in university curricula
* Try "Chess in School" curriculum to test these features or create your own curricula with play blocks
* Added "Chess Endgames" curriculum to study endgames in level-based form
* Feel free to share your experience via the feedback!
* Various fixes and improvements