Mate in 2 Chess Puzzles App Reviews

I was looking for a good chess problem app and came across this series. Very nice. In fact, easily the best one out there. Only wish, a combined mega app so I dont have to have 4 icons!

One of my favorite chess apps. Works flawlessly. Fast, nice and I would recommend this app to anyone who enjoys playing chess.

A excellent, functional app with a good variety of challenging problems.

Totally addictive!

I bought the mate in 1 pack, and was quite impressed, so I bought mate in 2. Unfortunately, many of these puzzles are mate in more than 2. The app assumes black will make a specific move in response to whites first move.. And yes, if we permit that, then it will mate in 2. However, in many cases if black were to make another move (other than that programmed by the app), then the mate will take several more moves, or not at all.

I got this app, the WorldChamps, and the Mate in 3 Puzzles. They are all wonderful apps that I can recommend to any chess lover. In addition to that I should mention the excellent and prompt support that I got from the programmer of these apps when I had a little problem. Even though I was quite happy to get the app for such a low price, I think that it actually is worth more. I would have paid up to $4.99 without regretting it for one moment.

I bought all of these packs and theyre great. To the guy complaining that they arent mate in 2, they are not all FORCED mate in 2 but the unforced mate in 2s are from actual games which challenges you to look for human error in your games. Compare how many times you have given forced and unforced mates in your own games and you will understand why predicting a human opponents play is more important than what a computer might play. Really recommend all of the packs, its 5 bucks

Simply the best

Selection of puzzles is nice, however navigation between them is troublesome. You should always scroll down from very beginning of the list. Design is not iPhone style

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This is helping me improve my skills - thank you!

Good chess problem app. I enjoy using it

I enjoying using mate in 2, I only wish that there was an option to play black against the white, because sometimes Im sure its not a true mate in 2 game, only an error on blacks move.

This app has a wide variety of excellent two-move chess problems, with a built-in timer so you can see how long each problem takes you to solve. I have solved a few in less than a minute, but most take considerably longer, and some have kept me going for as long as a week. Great app!

I am an intermediate chess player. Ive been rated near 1600, and won a few tournament games (and lost a few). I have several chess puzzle books including some popular books by Bruce Pandolfini, Fred Wilson/Bruce Alberston and Laszlo Polgar. Typically I can solve about two-thirds of the puzzles in these books. I had hoped for similar chess puzzles in this app, but unfortunately, I am dissappointed. Though the "Mate in 1" app is very easy, and the first twelve puzzles in this app are similarly easy, the difficulty suddenly jumps to a level that probably challenges even Grandmaster players to work through. Im of course guessing about that, but the point is, the difficulty level jumps very suddenly to an extremely high level. A puzzle I recently struggled with had close to 50 candidates for the 1st move, and nearly as many for the 2nd move, giving a total of almost 2500 possible solutions. When you play chess, you dont go through every possibility to find your move -- you consider the best "candidate moves," which are often forcing moves or moves which offer the best possibility of improving your position. But if you simply look at "candidates" in these puzzles, youll often be frustrated, as the solution frequently involves a move that is most definitely NOT a likely candidate move. After struggling a long time and failing to find a solution in any puzzles (beyond the "Warm-up" puzzles), I resorted to taking the "hint," and even then, it took a while to find the winning move. If youre a Grandmaster, or an amateur hunting for an app to waste a lot of time on, this is the one. If, however, youd like to develop some useful tactical skill and improve your chess game, Id recommend you find another app.

Im not a great chess player, but the puzzles are interesting and difficult to boot! Every board has an "a-ha!" moment where it all makes sense. None are too difficult: its only 2 moves for crying out loud!

I can definitely recommend this to people who enjoy chess and enjoy puzzles.

3/12 still a nice solid tactic training full of challenge M2 puzzles. Pleasingly designed & runs smooth. Would be nice still to see maybe puzzle tracking by # of moves. I haven seen this feature elsewhere--maybe its too hard to program but sure would be useful in terms of visually tracking results. Was updated to run on iPad. Works great on tablet format! ORIGINAL REVIEW: This app I avoided at first due to lack of ratings n reviews. I took a chance since Im trying to do more daily puzzles to improve my horrible game n lack of tactical vision n its only 99c. What a nice surprise! I only bought M2 but I am now open to the devs other products. Nice UI n vast collection of M2 puzzles. Some are quite easy for even me but theres plenty to pull from. I like the date stamp for completion. DEV: In addition to date tracking can u consider a feature to keep track of how many attempts it takes to solve? And maybe a running record of attempts by date? That would help my simple mind know if Im improving over time. Running on 3GS on OS4.1. Nice app! Thanks!

Challenging and smooth operation.

Excellent concept of mate in two. Enjoy playing the game. Good program but needs to fix bugs. At times the program freezes or it goes haywire. Needs to be restarted or reset.