Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is made and published by Chess King. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with Chess King. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to Chess King and are shown as published on Google Play.
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EstablishedLoved by users- Rating on Google Play
- 4.68
- 482 ratings
- Installs
- 100 thousand
- Last updated
- May 22, 2026
- Ads
- Contains ads
- Size
- 17.1 MB
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) has 100 thousand installs. Users love it: 4.7 stars from 482 ratings.
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By Chess King, from Google Play“If you are a beginner, you just have to learn how to defend your pieces!”
Description by Chess King Written by the developer, not by AppBrain. Click to read.
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
Safety and technology
Found in the app by AppBrain- Ads
- Contains ads
- Price
- Free
- Libraries
- 49
- App size
- 17.1 MB
- Content rating
- Everyone
Technologies used by Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)
Releases
Updates seen on Google Play- Version
- 5.7.5
- Launched
- June 2016
- 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
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Installs
Tracked by AppBrain- Last 30 days
- 160
- Play install range
- 100+ thousand
- Launched
- June 2016
Installs over time
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) has been installed 100 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it has been installed 160 times.
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About the app and developer
About Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles)
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is an educational app developed by Chess King.
Install Statistics
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) has been installed 100 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 160 times.
User Ratings
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is rated 4.68 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 480 ratings.
App Information
Simple Defense (Chess Puzzles) is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 17.15 MB. The latest version available is 5.7.5. The last update was on May 22, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since June 2016.
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