ChessCoach - Learn Chess
Lessons, puzzles, game review
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Start with today's lesson: board practice, 1,000 mate puzzles, and reviews that explain mistakes plainly. The full course adds all 20 lessons and 200 tactics puzzles.
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/
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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.
The developer, INPHIL CHOI, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- INPHIL CHOI
- Size
- 21.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full Course $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 CreativeLab

