Chess Academy Kids

Chess Academy Kids is a chess course for the whole family: the pieces talk to you in their own voices, a coach explains every move and there are new puzzles every day. After each move in a practice game, the app tells you whether it was the best one, a slip or a blunder, and says why in plain words: "Your move leaves a rook undefended" or "There was checkmate in one."

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
• A method, not a list of tricks: the "checks, captures and threats" routine, plus a lesson on asking "what does my opponent want?"

A COURSE IN 5 UNITS
17 short lessons with explanations on a real board and exercises you solve by moving the pieces: the pieces, check and checkmate, tactics (fork, pin, discovered attack), how to find the best move and how to start a game.

DAILY PUZZLES
New puzzles every day at four levels, from starter to advanced.

THE KNIGHT'S MISSIONS
Every month the knight professor reaches a new island with a mission.

TWO WAYS TO PLAY
Two players on the same device, passing the phone or tablet back and forth, free. Or play the app at three levels and choose your color.

PROGRESS AND REWARDS
• XP and levels with piece ranks, from pawn to king.
• A daily streak with one rest day forgiven each week, and a daily goal of 3 activities.
• 24 badges, 1 to 3 stars on every lesson, the course laid out as a path and celebrations along the way.
• Two reward piece collections, Space and Safari, unlocked by playing (level 5 and a 7-day streak). They are never sold.

A SAFE ONLINE CLUB
Games against children at their level or virtual players, a weekend tournament and weekly leagues, designed for children from the start:
• No free text, voice or photos: only predefined phrases and emojis, which you can turn off. A real child only sees a nickname and an avatar; if nobody at their level is available, a virtual player plays (an invented character with a chess engine, labelled as such, no league points).
• A grown-up turns it on in the parents' area, profile by profile, with the family account.
• To play a friend, the grown-up asks for a one-time code and gives it to the other family.
• A grown-up can block an opponent.

ARMIES THAT FIGHT
Eight piece themes, from the medieval kingdom to robots, pirates and the classic set. When you capture, the two pieces fight. You can turn the fights, the sound and the piece symbols off.

FOR THE FAMILY
• A profile for each child with their own progress, and a parents' area behind a grown-up question.
• Parents see each child's progress (modules and games won) inside the app, behind the grown-up question, and by email every week.
• A family account (an adult creates it with email, Apple or Google): progress follows your children on every device. Children need no email or account, just a nickname. The account can be deleted from the app.
• No ads and no tracking.

FREE, PRO AND THE CLUB
Free: the first module of the course, games against the app at level 1, two-player games on one device, a limited daily use of the coach, the voices of every character, three puzzles a day and one online game a day.
Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription, for the whole family: the full course, all three levels, unlimited coach, several child profiles and the parent report.
The Chess Academy Kids Club is a family subscription, monthly or yearly, separate from Pro: unlimited puzzles, unlimited online games, weekend tournaments, weekly leagues and a new knight's mission every month. It renews automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel it, and you manage or cancel it in Google Play.

LANGUAGE
The app, the course, the coach, the piece voices, the puzzles and the missions are in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Works on phones and tablets with Android.

Recent changes:
Centered logo with a showcase of the app, Pro zone, choose your profile picture, cleaner close buttons.