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Last updated on: 2026-06-05
Android Apps > Educational > Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)
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Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

5.7.5
Chess King
4.61
479 reviews
100,000+
Downloads
Free

If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces!

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About Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is an educational app developed by Chess King.

Download Statistics

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) has been downloaded 100 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 160 times. It is ranked in the top 100 educational apps.

User Ratings

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is rated 4.61 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 480 ratings.

App Information

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is FREE to download. The APK download size is 17.15 MB. The latest version available is 5.7.5. The last update was on May 22, 2026.

Technical Requirements

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2016.

Description
If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces from being taken! Every chessplayer has to master and consolidate some basic defensive skills such as withdrawing or protecting a piece, interception or attacking an opponent's piece. Having consolidated your knowledge by doing a great number of exercises you will be able to improve your level of playing. This course includes more than 2800 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners.

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.

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
♔ 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. Retreat
2. Defending with another piece
3. Taking an attacking piece
4. Interception
5. Defending from mate
6. Difficulty level

Recent changes:
* Added Czech and Korean translations
* 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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More data about Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

Price Free to download
Total downloads 100 thousand
Recent downloads 160
Rating 4.61 based on 480 ratings
Ranking Highly ranked
Version 5.7.5
APK size 17.1 MB
Number of libraries 34
Designed for Android 4.1+
Suitable for Everyone
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Downloads over time

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) has been downloaded 100 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it has been downloaded 160 times.

Changelog of Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

  • May 22, 2026UpdateVersion 5.7.5
  • Apr 8, 2026Installs100,000+ installs
  • Nov 6, 2025UpdateVersion 5.4.1
  • Jan 29, 2025UpdateVersion 4.2.2
  • Sep 30, 2024UpdateVersion 3.4.0
  • Jul 25, 2024UpdateVersion 3.3.2
  • Jul 5, 2023UpdateVersion 2.4.2
  • Mar 13, 2023UpdateVersion 1.5.6
  • Apr 16, 2021UpdateVersion 1.3.10
  • Jul 8, 2020UpdateVersion 1.3.5
  • Jun 10, 2020UpdateVersion 1.3.5
  • Feb 26, 2019Installs50,000+ installs
  • Dec 14, 2018UpdateVersion 1.2.1
  • Apr 4, 2018UpdateVersion 1.1.0
  • Nov 2, 2017UpdateVersion 1.0.2
  • Jun 15, 2017UpdateVersion 1.0.0
  • May 12, 2017UpdateVersion 1.0.0
  • Apr 24, 2017UpdateVersion 1.0.0
  • Dec 28, 2016UpdateVersion 0.9.8
  • Dec 25, 2016Installs10,000+ installs
  • Oct 10, 2016Installs5,000+ installs
  • Sep 12, 2016UpdateVersion 0.9.7
  • Jul 31, 2016Installs1,000+ installs
  • Jul 20, 2016Installs500+ installs
  • Jul 7, 2016Installs100+ installs
  • Jun 30, 2016New AppVersion 0.9.7 in EDUCATIONAL for Free
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Comments on Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) for Android

★★★★★ Jim Hoffman · Nov 2, 2021
These are chess puzzles. They are challenging at first but after a while you will see patterns and the solutions become easier and faster. That what chess is, recognizing patterns that your opponent doesn't see. I am very pleased with this app. I work with it every day.
★★★★★ HIDEO MIT UNS · Aug 31, 2021
I honestly believe getting 95 percent at good speed in :capture 1, 2, mate in 1, 2 and elementary tactics 1 and 2 with this defense puzzle set included from chess king will easily put anyone at 1200

Google Play Rankings for Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

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Technologies used by Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)

Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is requesting 17 permissions and is using 35 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools
test access to protected storage
Network communication
view network connections, full network access, Google Play billing service, receive data from Internet
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
System tools
prevent phone from sleeping
Extra
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_CUSTOM_AUDIENCE, android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS, android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC, android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT, com.chessking.android.learn.simpledefense.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE

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