This friendly interactive course is for both children and adult beginners
About Chess School for Beginners
Chess School for Beginners is a board app developed by Chess King.
Download Statistics
Chess School for Beginners has been downloaded 430 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 190 times.
User Ratings
Chess School for Beginners is rated 4.38 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.8 thousand ratings.
App Information
Chess School for Beginners is FREE to download. The APK download size is 45.19 MB. The latest version available is 5.7.5. The last update was on May 22, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Chess School for Beginners requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2016.
Description
This friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 2 main sections: Chess rules and Playing. 500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student.
This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.
With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.
The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.
The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.
Advantages of the program: ♔ High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness ♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher ♔ Different levels of complexity of the tasks ♔ Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems ♔ The program gives hint if an error is made ♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown ♔ You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons ♔ Structured table of contents ♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process ♔ Test mode with flexible settings ♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises ♔ The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet ♔ The application does not require an internet connection ♔ You can link the app to a free Chess King account and solve one course from several devices on Android, iOS and Web at the same time
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version are fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Chess board 1.3. Chess pieces 1.4. Starting position 2. Pieces' moves 2.1. Rook 2.2. Bishop 2.3. Queen 2.4. Knight 2.5. King 2.6. Pawn 3. Pawn promotion 4. The relative value of the pieces 5. The role of the king. Check and mate 5.1. Check 5.2. Getting out of check 5.3. Mate 5.4. Castling 5.5. Mate in one move 5.6. Stalemate 5.7. Perpetual check 6. Capture 7. Notation (How to read moves) 8. Elementary capture 8.1. Winning a knight 8.2. Winning a bishop 8.3. Winning a rook 8.4. Winning a queen 8.5. Win a piece 9. Simple defense 9.1. Retreat 9.2. Defending with another piece 9.3. Taking an attacking piece 9.4. Interception 9.5. Defending from mate 10. Chess skills development 11. The role of the king. Continuation 11.1. Mate in 1 11.2. Mate in 2 11.3. Discovered check 11.4. Double check 11.5. Perpetual check 11.6. Stalemate 12. King and queen against a king 13. King and rook against a king 14. King and minor piece against a king 15. King and a pawn against a king 16. Etiquette during a game 17. Chess mazes
Recent changes: * Added Czech and Korean translations * Show separate theory/practice/animation buttons for the courses contents to allow direct access * Show best and worst subtopics on the statistics screen * Increased board size in the landscape mode * Feel free to share your experience via the feedback! * Various fixes and improvements
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Comments on Chess School for Beginners for Android
★★★★★Robert Andreo· Mar 2, 2019
This is a very fine introductory chess app for beginners and novices, adults and children. The text (theory) is well written with concise graphics and examples, and the practical exercises are valuable applications of the text. The app designers are clearly knowledgeable and experienced chess players.
★★★★☆Ryan Decker· Oct 2, 2018
Helps me think more and see things in a more tactical way. Not just for kids.
★★★★☆Trevor Garland· May 5, 2020
Great combination of theory and animated exercises. For fifty years I have always been at best a beginner because I did not know where to start learning. I took up GO because I could not do justice to Chess. This app is the guide I have been seeking. Sometimes I am not clear what the exercise expects me to do, but so far it is patient with me, and I am learning the concepts of tactical moves.
★☆☆☆☆Curtis Olson· Dec 29, 2020
It's garbage, asking you questions without telling you anything, not worth your time I like chess and want to learn more and this definitely isn't the way to do it. Try moving pieces, and it tells you are wrong, then does the exact same move and says it's the correct move. Asks questions about jargon and doesn't tell you before testing you...
★☆☆☆☆Pete Ansbro· Feb 25, 2021
This is the app with only limited navigation. This is the free app which has more ads than chess pieces. This is the app with learning on the various chess pieces which can only be accessed through payment. So yes it's free: but just not very good.
★★☆☆☆Apostle Monica Brooks· Apr 11, 2019
Doesn't really show you how to play as a beginner. Gonna look for another app. If you get a question/ move wrong it doesn't matter because it doesn't tell you how to fix it. It just moves on 🤔😒
★☆☆☆☆Use Your Brain They Live· May 25, 2020
Moves not explained so no good. It started off well enough but then turns into a farce as it asks how many moves it takes to move a certain piece to a certain place. How is a beginner meant to know with zero explanation? Disappointed and uninstalled. A shame because it started so promising. Fix this and it would be really good.
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