ChessCoach - Learn Chess
INPHIL CHOI Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
ChessCoach - Learn Chess is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by INPHIL CHOI. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 21 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 1
- 2026 · v1.1.0
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About ChessCoach - Learn Chess
Learn chess step by step, right on your phone. ChessCoach is a chess course that opens on Today's Learning. Every day it lays out a short plan (a daily puzzle, one lesson, a tactics set and a practice game) and tracks your progress by chapter and by theme. ■ 20-lesson curriculum Five chapters: Basics, Opening principles, Tactical motifs, Intermediate, Endgame basics. New lessons end with exercises on the board, checked move by move by the rules engine, with an explanation after every answer. · Control the centre, develop your pieces, castle · Count attackers and defenders, knight forks, queen double attacks · Mate with queen and rook, promotion and the rule of the square, the opposition ■ Game review that explains After a game against the on-device AI, the app picks your biggest mistakes and says why in plain words: a piece left undefended, a missed checkmate, a missed fork. It links to the lesson that teaches the idea, and each mistake becomes a puzzle you can retry. ■ 1,200 puzzles 1,000 checkmate puzzles (mate in one, back-rank mates) and 200 tactics puzzles (forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks). Every tactics puzzle was checked by the on-device engine to have one clear best move. A daily puzzle and streak. Accuracy per theme shows your weak spots and suggests a lesson to review. ■ Practice games An AI from Elo 400 to 2400, unlimited free hints, move-by-move replay and PGN export. ■ Opening library 15 openings replayed move by move, with the idea behind each. ■ No account, all on your device No server, no login. Lessons, puzzles and the AI all run on your device, even in airplane mode. Your progress never leaves your phone. ■ 5 languages English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). ■ Free and the Full Course Free: the first 5 lessons (Basics chapter), Today's Learning, 1,000 mate puzzles, the daily puzzle, the first 5 puzzles of each tactics theme, AI games with hints and review, the opening library and My Progress. ChessCoach Full Course (one-time purchase, not a subscription, Family Sharing supported): all 20 lessons (opening principles, tactical motifs, intermediate, endgame basics), all 200 tactics puzzles, and no ads. If you have used ChessCoach since version 1.0, the 10 lessons you already had stay free, and your saved games, puzzles and lessons carry over. ■ About ads Ads appear only when you open the app: at most 3 times a day, at least 4 hours apart. Never during a lesson, a puzzle, a game or a review, and never on the first launch after installing. No ads after buying the Full Course. To show ads, Google AdMob processes the device information it needs (no personalised ads). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://inphilchoi.github.io/chesscoach-privacy/
What’s new
Version 1.1.0 · Updated October 1, 2026
ChessCoach is now a step-by-step chess course. • The app opens on Today's Learning: your next lesson and a four-step daily plan • 10 new lessons with board exercises: opening principles, tactical motifs, endgame basics • Game review explains each mistake in plain words and links to the lesson that teaches it • 200 new tactics puzzles: forks, pins, skewers and discovered attacks, linked from the lessons • New My Progress screen: chapters, accuracy per theme, what to study next • A more lifelike 3D wooden board with a new knight New: the ChessCoach Full Course (one-time purchase, Family Sharing) opens all 20 lessons and 200 tactics puzzles and removes ads. The first 5 lessons, Today's Learning, 1,000 mate puzzles, the daily puzzle and games stay free, and if you have used the app since 1.0, the 10 lessons you had stay free. Your saved games, puzzles and lessons carry over.
App privacy
The developer, INPHIL CHOI, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics
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:
- Diagnostics: Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data, Crash Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics
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