Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles)
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More than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves!
- Rating
- 4.7
- 10K ratings
- Downloads
- 706K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Jul 10
- 2026 · v5.8.0
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About Mate in 3-4 (Chess Puzzles)
This course includes more than 2500 exercises for mating in 3 or 4 moves. You will have to use your fantasy and precise calculation in order to find a correct way of attacking the king. After going through this course you are sure to improve your skills and abilities considerably and will not miss an opportunity to employ a nice little combination in a practical game of your own. The program is intended both for club players and intermediate players. All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels.
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
2. King + rook
3. King + bishop
4. King + knight
5. King + pawn
6. Queen
6.1. Level 2
6.2. Level 3
6.3. Level 4
6.4. Level 5
6.5. Level 6
7. Queen + rook
7.1. Level 3
7.2. Level 4
7.3. Level 5
7.4. Level 6
7.5. Level 7
8. Queen + bishop
8.1. Volume 1
8.2. Volume 2
9. Queen + knight
9.1. Volume 1
9.2. Volume 2
10. Queen + pawn
11. Rook
11.1. Level 2
11.2. Level 3
11.3. Level 4
11.4. Level 5
11.5. Level 6
11.6. Level 7
12. Rook + bishop
13. Rook + knight
13.1. Volume 1
13.2. Volume 2
14. Rook + pawn
15. Bishop
16. Bishop + knight
17. Bishop + pawn
18. Knight
19. Knight + pawn
20. Pawn
21. Any piece checkmates
21.1. Level 2
21.2. Level 3
21.3. Level 4
21.4. Level 5
21.5. Level 6
21.6. Level 7
21.7. Level 8
21.8. Level 9
21.9. Level 10
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
2. King + rook
3. King + bishop
4. King + knight
5. King + pawn
6. Queen
6.1. Level 2
6.2. Level 3
6.3. Level 4
6.4. Level 5
6.5. Level 6
7. Queen + rook
7.1. Level 3
7.2. Level 4
7.3. Level 5
7.4. Level 6
7.5. Level 7
8. Queen + bishop
8.1. Volume 1
8.2. Volume 2
9. Queen + knight
9.1. Volume 1
9.2. Volume 2
10. Queen + pawn
11. Rook
11.1. Level 2
11.2. Level 3
11.3. Level 4
11.4. Level 5
11.5. Level 6
11.6. Level 7
12. Rook + bishop
13. Rook + knight
13.1. Volume 1
13.2. Volume 2
14. Rook + pawn
15. Bishop
16. Bishop + knight
17. Bishop + pawn
18. Knight
19. Knight + pawn
20. Pawn
21. Any piece checkmates
21.1. Level 2
21.2. Level 3
21.3. Level 4
21.4. Level 5
21.5. Level 6
21.6. Level 7
21.7. Level 8
21.8. Level 9
21.9. Level 10
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
User reviews
This application brings you from the bottom to top i. e GM.
Awesome App
Good apps for chess study
Very educational
Great Chess Puzzle Game : )
Nice
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