Chess Tactics for Beginners

More than 1200 exercises quickly help beginners to form basic tactical vision

Game info

Version :

5.4.1

Category :

Board

Update :

October 29, 2025

Installs :

2,165,489

Developer :

Chess King

Requires Android :

Android 4.1+

Content Rating :

Everyone

Get it on :

Download APK

Game description

Android App Analysis and Review: Chess Tactics for Beginners, Developed by Chess King. Listed in Board Category. Current Version Is 5.4.1, Updated On 29/10/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Chess Tactics for Beginners. Achieved Over 2 million Installs. Chess Tactics for Beginners Currently Has 26 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.7 Stars

This course is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko which became a sort of chess publishing sensation and sold over 200,000 copies. More than 1200 training exercises are intended for beginners. Elementary and simple tasks (1-, 2- and 3-way) are used as teaching material.

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. Mate in 1
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Mate in 1
2. Winning material
2.1. Gain a queen
2.2. Gain a rook
2.3. Gain a knight
2.4. Gain a bishop
3. Draw
4. Mate in 2
4.1. Double check
4.2. Queen checkmates
4.3. Rook checkmates
4.4. Knight checkmates
4.5. Bishop checkmates
4.6. Pawn checkmates
5. Sacrifice material
5.1. Queen sacrifice
5.2. Rook sacrifice
5.3. Bishop sacrifice
5.4. Knight sacrifice
6. How to proceed?

We are currently offering version 5.4.1. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.

It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.

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

Rate and review on Google Play store

4.7

25,904 total

5 78.3

4 15.4

3 3.8

2 0

1 2.5

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Recent Comments

Kaiden Benke

The puzzles are awesome, and am able to learn new techniques and approaches to the game of chess. I would say if there was more of an explanation for the good ans bad moves. Sometimes I can see why the moves were productive but there's always a few I don't understand and it's a tab bit frustrating. End in end for a free app that teaches people good tactics I have to give 5 starts 👍

Dustin Gulley

Great for practice, lots of tactic puzzles. I took one point off because the goal sometimes comes off as confusing. For instance it might say "play to win" when you're going for the queen, or "play for decisive advantage" when you are playing for checkmate. In a way that's good because it makes you think but I feel like they may as well not provide a goal. Outside of that minor complaint it's a great app.

S. Jaye

This is great for practicing checkmates. It gives scenarios in which a single move can checkmate the other player and, if you miss it, teaches how to make the right move. It's hard! I'm a beginner and I almost never see the solution. Even after working out what seems like every possible move, I still often miss it. I know that as I get better at the game, I'll get better at this and I suspect that the reverse is probably true. I'm just not there yet.

Ozgian Zulchefil

The application is geared towards beginners. You can have a blast playing the whole set once you aquire the full version or you can play it free with a limited set of tactics. When you're stuck you're offered a hint and if you still don't understand then it will play out the move for you - maybe a spoiler for some but you can replay it later if you want. Nevertheless a great app for learning the beginning of chess tactics as advertised.

Neftali Pineiro

I don't think I'm learning anything from this approach. It's like playing with Bobby Fisher or Gary Kasparov. At my stage, I'm just trying to improve the game. Going from A to B, instead of jumping from A to Z. I probably have tried so far about a hundred or so exercises without noticing any improvement. Not having any clue for any given problem what should be my next move. I think I learn a great deal instead by playing against the computer with many different levels.

Erica Tereshinski

Puzzles designed to teach specific tactics. 200 free puzzles and about 1000 more when you pay. I really feel like I'm getting better at chess much more than other random chess puzzles. Also, great built in game analyzer so you can try out different moves and counter moves to make sure you really understand the puzzle.

Stephen Wu

At 7 hours on tests, my rating is falling steadily. Yes, mastery comes with time but problem is there is no hint/help with how to assess positions for whatever it is an advanced player looks for. Is there a method or do they see every possibility and their outcomes? I also don't understand the meaning of the color-coded arrows, so the hints don't help me correct my moves. AFTER the solution is revealed, then I can see why it is correct, but have not learned a generally applicable technique

A Google user

Best learn how to play chess game I've found. I shows you tactics by focusing on solving real world "puzzles" with increasing level of difficulty. The puzzles get difficult but it has a couple of cryptic hints at first but then just solves the next step for you to keep things moving. It also includes alternative responses to moves.