ChessLab: Openings & Puzzles
Aman Singh Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
ChessLab: Openings & Puzzles is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Aman Singh. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 9, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 167 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 9
- 2026 · v2.0.76
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About ChessLab: Openings & Puzzles
ChessLab is a complete chess trainer, a chess game, and — new — a reel studio that turns your games into videos. Study 10,000+ openings, solve 11,000+ puzzles, play Stockfish across 7 skill levels, and share your best move as a vertical video built for Reels, Shorts and TikTok. Works offline. From your first move to grandmaster strategy — ad-free with Premium. NEW: AI REEL STUDIO Paste a PGN. The engine finds the moment worth watching and builds a vertical video around it. • AI picks the key move and writes the title • Cinematic effects — pieces slam, the board reacts, the camera follows • Frame-by-frame camera control: your own zooms, shot lengths and cuts • Move call-outs (BRILLIANT, BLUNDER) in five text styles and three sizes • Any colour you like — presets or a full colour picker • Title and end cards you can restyle, resize or switch off • Lay your own music under it, and pick which part of the track to use • Move sounds mixed into the exported file • Build reels from your game, a famous game, or a puzzle PLAY CHESS • Play vs AI — 7 ELO-tuned levels: • Beginner Bot I (500) — Learn the basics • Beginner Bot II (900) • Intermediate (1300) • Advanced (1700) • Expert (2000) — Club strength • Master (2400) • Grand Master (2700) — Powered by Stockfish • Play vs Friends — Pass-and-play on one device, offline • Play Online — Challenge real players in live matches • Board Editor — Set up any position and play it against the engine CHESS OPENINGS Study 10,000+ openings covering every ECO code: • Ruy Lopez • Sicilian Defense • French Defense • Caro-Kann Defense • King's Indian Defense • Queen's Gambit • Italian Game • English Opening • Hundreds more Every opening includes move-by-move PGN playback. GAMBITS Aggressive opening traps and attacks: • Halloween Gambit • Scotch Gambit • Englund Gambit • King's Gambit • Benko Gambit • Many more TACTICS & PUZZLES 11,000+ puzzles in 57 themed sets, so you can drill one pattern until it sticks: • Checkmate Patterns — back rank, smothered, Anastasia's, Arabian, 18 in all • Tactical Motifs — pins, deflection, discovered attack, 19 in all • Attacking Play, Special Moves, Game Phase • Mate in 2 and Mate in 3 • Endgames — pawn, rook, bishop, knight and queen Daily practice is one of the fastest ways to raise your rating. COURSE A structured path from zero to grandmaster — the fundamentals in order, so you never have to guess what to learn next. GAME REVIEW & ANALYSIS • Import any PGN • Stockfish analysis, entirely on your device • Ten grades: Brilliant, Great, Best, Excellent, Good, Book, Inaccuracy, Mistake, Miss, Blunder • Sacrifices and only-moves recognised, opening theory marked as book • See what you should have played • Share games as PGN, or turn one straight into a reel GAME STATS & PERFORMANCE Connect your Chess.com or Lichess account: • Rapid, Blitz, Bullet & Classical ratings • Win / Draw / Loss breakdown • Current & Peak ELO, with rating history graphs • Best & worst openings vs database averages • Common mistakes and phase-by-phase weaknesses • Toughest opponents and best-ever wins GRANDMASTER GAME LIBRARY Replay legendary games from Carlsen, Kasparov, Fischer, Anand, Nakamura, Gukesh, Tal, Capablanca, Karpov, Alekhine, Morphy and Judit Polgar — plus World Championship archives. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE • 40 piece sets • 64 board themes • 6 sound themes • Dark Mode • Undo / Redo during practice WHO IT'S FOR Beginners learning the rules, club players (800–1500), intermediate (1500–2000), advanced (2000+), and anyone who wants to play offline. Everything except online play and imported stats works with no internet. Download ChessLab and start improving — one move at a time.
What’s new
Version 2.0.76 · Updated October 9, 2026
Chess analysis now tells about which tactics you missed and it also generate analysis report
App privacy
The developer, Aman Singh, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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