Chess Endgame Training

As someone who hasn't played chess in ages, I really appreciated this and found it to be a very useful learning aid. Could still use some small UX tweaks (eg A, too easy to back out of a game in progress. B, opening settings while in a game then pressing back quits game as well. C, no ability to have a 'playable' undo after a move that results in draw or mate). Again though, I found it useful to become comfortable with how best to use pieces in endgame. Thanks!

Excellent app. This app is suppose to be supplemented with a book or theory as it is often not clear why mate is unfeasible in certain positions. The computer moves could certainly use some improvements as it doesn't put up a fight when it knows its position is a draw or losing. Alternative moves could be another great addition.

The idea is good, but the execution buggy. Eg. the app announces "unfeasible mate" after the best move, which actually wins. (It's consistent with the app's own hint, I also double-checked the position against an external engine. The bug affects eg. the 1st and 2nd example in the 3P vs. 2P section, I didn't check further ones). Such an app makes no sense if you cannot trust its feedback.

Very good for endgame drills. The best. Simple, clean, no ads. however it can be a little laggy and buggy. fix the bugs.at times especially when entering moves. when games are copied to clipboard it only copies (pastes) the final position and no moves. And please add move list. it should at least show the notation as the moves are played, thatway ill know how many moves i have played instead of just showing me how many moves left to checkmate. If you fix these the app will earn 5 stars.

Great app, has improved my endgame enormously. One improvement i would like to suggest is that some puzzles shouldnt finish at checkmate, but at promotion in a king pawn endgame for example. It gets repetitive mating with Q&K after promoting. Also it would be helpful to have a line of theory before a type of puzzle. Something like "gain the opposition by...", Then we could learn more about what we are trying ro achieve and why certain positions become unfeasible mates. Thanks for this great app!

This app is great for practice. No BS or intrusive ads. I only wish the AI wouldn't always make the same move in every situation. Sometimes the King will have to moves with the same distance-to-mate, but it will always choose one of those moves in a position whereas real players are less predictable.

The app is great, but some exercises already start with the statement "unfeasible mate". I believe this statement points out that the checkmate can't be achieved unless the AI blunder a move. The first exercise of the rook vs 2 pawns list is an example. It's kind of awful to know that I can't solve the exercise unless I have the luck of seeing the AI blunder a move.

I like the app in general. But there are two things to fix: 1. No retry button. 2. the progress is not saved when you play the current puzzle unless you navigate to home then the puzzle and select it, otherwards your progress is forgotten. The app is very nice, I highly recommend it.

This app is one of the most comprehensive chess apps I have ever downloaded. The engine is good. It has a quick mode to break down the methodology for obtaining checkmate, useful for new beginners. App loads quick, has a hint mode, reacts quickly. Haven't had any stability issues on an older droid (6.0 I believe). There are tons of topics such as single pawn, bishop, room, queen, mixed pieces etc endings. This could benefit players of ALL skill levels. USCF# 12909612. That's my .02c Thanks

Possibly one of the most useful apps to improving my chess skill, and I recommend it to all of my students. No written instruction, but repeated practice and study can be just as insightful! Note to developers: There seems to be an issue with 3 pawns vs 2. Syzygy is saying the won endgames are drawn (giving you unfeasible mate on winning moves even a move away from checkmate) meanwhile #6/59 is a drawn position - really great puzzle but the goal says checkmate despite being impossible.

***My second review*** initially i gave one star because board not showing up. Now after software update the board is showing up. Now some ideas that would be nice to add to the app is endgame puzzles from actual games. I like the practice that you have with all pieces but it would be nice if you make a mistake the app telling you why the mistake. For example R + K vs K if the person dont know the technique to mate this app is useless to them. Thanks.

Great set of endgame drills in a nicely designed app. One suggestion for next version would be option to randomise drills, rather than just playing through in order. Random selection could either be from all drills together, or to randomise a category, eg all Knight drills in all pawn combinations. Random selection would make this perfect. Thanks to the developer.

Been playing chess on and off all my life, this app taught me something on the basic level in the first 15 minutes. It gives you a lot of variations on a given theme and really gets the idea across. Excellent for duffers like myself, I believe it will improve my game.

I use web app and it's amazing. Unfortunately, Android app is unusable. Due to contrast issues it's very hard to to see dark pieces on dark squares. I tried all piece sets available and all available boards

No restart button after completing a puzzle. You have to go to next puzzle and then come back to solve it again. What if I want to solve the same puzzle again. I think it's very basic feature and should be on puzzle screen itself. Add it and I will rate it 5 star.

Full featured chess endgame practice. Great for beginner to intermediate players. And it's free with no ads! I enjoy figuring out why mate becomes unfeasible after I make a blunder on my own. Thank you for not telling me! (If I were desperate to know immediately, I'd look it up).

This is an edit from my review. at first this was an almost perfect app to train endgames, however the more I trained to the 3 pawn king vs 2 pawn and king the app would try to make me try to win in drawing or losing positions. After putting it into a engine that would prove that it's a draw or a loss, even this app itself would say that but will still expect me to win. Fix this then this app would be good

The collection of endgame variations in this app is incredible. It does not have any theories (which you can get everywhere on the internet, so not a big deal) but for practicing endgames, this is the best. Thank you developers. And please continue adding more variations to this incredible app.

This app has has potential but the touch interface is too buggy to enjoy it. About half of the times I touch the screen to make a move nothing happens, there is no reaction to my touch although the app clearle records the touch.

I can't believe is free. So many exercises. I see that many work had been done at the pawn section. Is very fast the program analyze or the positions r saved to program or server does not matter anyway. Those that solve the exercises they r gonna be to monster mode chess players. One question still at pawn section 2/7 puzzle 4/116 program suggest white king to f7. In that case black pawn why just don't move 2 squares in front to promote to queen first. Thanks.

Excellent mobile application for learning chess end games. It gives hint and also able to calculate no of moves for check mate. From beginner to advanced, all can benefit from this and great thing is its free. Stamping five stars!

I was looking for endgame puzzles for me to practice or just to kill some time. This app is a perfect one. It has lot of endgame puzzles. Like all the possibilities of every combination of pieces and pawns. Its just great. Loved it!!

Brilliant tool for end games. Simple and easy. Suggestion: It would be nice if it was possible mark the drill complete after queening your pawn. In most cases you need to do 10 more moves until check mate although it is quite meaningless.

Good effort. But how do you use engines for analysis? Resetting a puzzle? How about displaying the correct number of moves required to solve the puzzle? How about stopping the puzzle when position of decisive advantage is reached?

Amazing! It helps me a lot because although I am good at openings and middle games I have problems in end games. Endless times I got winning positions but when I reached end games I get defeated. This App is what I needed!

Absolutely brilliant. No substitute for practicing the endgame in chess, and the examples have made me better able to understand the theory when I study it. Download this app, use it, I could see it adding anything from 100-500 Elo points on some people's rating.

Tried some of the later levels, like queen vs three pawns, and they're literally impossible. The game tells you that. After taking any starting move it says infeesible mate but the goal is to get checkmate. Try giving your players actually plausible goals.

It's brilliant. A very good app to practice endgame. If you are a amature in this game, then to give this app a try is not a bad move. I really have enjoyed it. Some of the puzzles may seems easy to you, but there are lot of good puzzle also here.

over all this a good app. there is one thing though, when you restart a position it doesn't actually set the initial position. i had to exit the puzzle and get back in to reset it.