Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles)
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Megacourse with 19,000 exercises on the checkmate in two moves for free!
- Rating
- 4.6
- 3.5K ratings
- Downloads
- 308K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Jul 10
- 2026 · v5.8.0
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About Mate in 2 (Chess Puzzles)
The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your device in solving problems from practical games. If you a beginner but already know how to mate in 1 move, you have to move on and learn how to attack a king and give mate in 2 moves! This course includes 19 000 exercises from masters games. In every exercise you will have to find a best continuation for an attack against the king. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. A great number of exercises makes the course an excellent tool for quick training both beginners and club players.
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. King + queen
1.1. Level 1
1.2. Level 2
1.3. Level 3
1.4. Level 4
2. King + rook
2.1. Level 1
2.2. Level 2
2.3. Level 3
2.4. Level 4
2.5. Level 5
3. King + bishop
4. King + knight
5. King + pawn
5.1. Volume 1
6. Queen
6.1. Level 1
6.2. Level 2
6.3. Level 3
6.4. Level 4
6.5. Level 5
6.6. Level 6
7. Queen + rook
7.1. Level 1
7.2. Level 2
7.3. Level 3
7.4. Level 4
7.5. Level 5
7.6. Level 6
7.7. Level 7
8. Queen + bishop
8.1. Level 1
8.2. Level 2
8.3. Level 3
8.4. Level 4
8.5. Level 5
8.6. Level 6
8.7. Level 7
9. Queen + knight
9.1. Level 2
9.2. Level 3
9.3. Level 4
9.4. Level 5
9.5. Level 6
9.6. Level 7
9.7. Level 8
9.8. Level 9
10. Queen + pawn
10.1. Level 1
10.2. Level 2
10.3. Level 3
10.4. Level 4
10.5. Level 5
10.6. Level 6
11. Rook
11.1. Level 1
11.2. Level 2
11.3. Level 3
11.4. Level 4
11.5. Level 5
11.6. Level 6
11.7. Level 7
12. Rook + bishop
12.1. Level 2
12.2. Level 3
12.3. Level 4
12.4. Level 5
12.5. Level 6
12.6. Level 7
13. Rook + knight
13.1. Level 2
13.2. Level 3
13.3. Level 4
13.4. Level 5
13.5. Level 6
13.6. Level 7
13.7. Level 8
13.8. Level 9
13.9. Level 10
14. Rook + pawn
14.1. Level 2
14.2. Level 3
14.3. Level 4
14.4. Level 5
14.5. Level 6
15. Bishop
15.1. Level 1
15.2. Level 2
15.3. Level 3
15.4. Level 4
15.5. Level 5
15.6. Level 6
16. Bishop + knight
16.1. Level 2
16.2. Level 4
16.3. Level 5
16.4. Level 6
16.5. Level 7
16.6. Level 8
16.7. Level 9
17. Bishop + pawn
17.1. Level 1
17.2. Level 2
17.3. Level 3
17.4. Level 4
17.5. Level 5
17.6. Level 6
18. Knight
19. Knight + pawn
20. Pawn
21. Any piece checkmates
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. King + queen
1.1. Level 1
1.2. Level 2
1.3. Level 3
1.4. Level 4
2. King + rook
2.1. Level 1
2.2. Level 2
2.3. Level 3
2.4. Level 4
2.5. Level 5
3. King + bishop
4. King + knight
5. King + pawn
5.1. Volume 1
6. Queen
6.1. Level 1
6.2. Level 2
6.3. Level 3
6.4. Level 4
6.5. Level 5
6.6. Level 6
7. Queen + rook
7.1. Level 1
7.2. Level 2
7.3. Level 3
7.4. Level 4
7.5. Level 5
7.6. Level 6
7.7. Level 7
8. Queen + bishop
8.1. Level 1
8.2. Level 2
8.3. Level 3
8.4. Level 4
8.5. Level 5
8.6. Level 6
8.7. Level 7
9. Queen + knight
9.1. Level 2
9.2. Level 3
9.3. Level 4
9.4. Level 5
9.5. Level 6
9.6. Level 7
9.7. Level 8
9.8. Level 9
10. Queen + pawn
10.1. Level 1
10.2. Level 2
10.3. Level 3
10.4. Level 4
10.5. Level 5
10.6. Level 6
11. Rook
11.1. Level 1
11.2. Level 2
11.3. Level 3
11.4. Level 4
11.5. Level 5
11.6. Level 6
11.7. Level 7
12. Rook + bishop
12.1. Level 2
12.2. Level 3
12.3. Level 4
12.4. Level 5
12.5. Level 6
12.6. Level 7
13. Rook + knight
13.1. Level 2
13.2. Level 3
13.3. Level 4
13.4. Level 5
13.5. Level 6
13.6. Level 7
13.7. Level 8
13.8. Level 9
13.9. Level 10
14. Rook + pawn
14.1. Level 2
14.2. Level 3
14.3. Level 4
14.4. Level 5
14.5. Level 6
15. Bishop
15.1. Level 1
15.2. Level 2
15.3. Level 3
15.4. Level 4
15.5. Level 5
15.6. Level 6
16. Bishop + knight
16.1. Level 2
16.2. Level 4
16.3. Level 5
16.4. Level 6
16.5. Level 7
16.6. Level 8
16.7. Level 9
17. Bishop + pawn
17.1. Level 1
17.2. Level 2
17.3. Level 3
17.4. Level 4
17.5. Level 5
17.6. Level 6
18. Knight
19. Knight + pawn
20. Pawn
21. Any piece checkmates
What’s new
Version 5.8.0 · Updated July 10, 2026
* Added Czech and Korean translations * Show solved puzzles count on the home screen * Show best and worst subtopics on the statistics screen * Increased board size in the landscape mode * Feel free to share your experience via the feedback! * Various fixes and improvements
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