Taktiva: Chess Puzzles

Taktiva trains your chess tactics with puzzles chosen for your rating. The puzzles you get wrong come back a few days later, so you learn the patterns rather than just the answers. All 29,891 puzzles come with the app; it works without an internet connection, with no account and no ads.

PUZZLES
• 29,891 puzzles selected from the Lichess puzzle database (public domain, CC0): well-played, well-rated puzzles with a settled rating, from 600 to 2800 and across 16 themes
• Each puzzle's Lichess ID is shown in the info panel

WAYS TO PLAY
• Training: puzzles near your rating; choose Easier, My rating or Harder
• Daily puzzle: a new puzzle every day, the same on every device
• Themes: mate in 1, 2 and 3, back-rank mate, fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, sacrifice, deflection, attraction, intermezzo, hanging piece, pawn, rook and queen endgames
• Puzzle rush: 3 or 5 minutes or no time limit; from easy to hard, ends at the third mistake; your best scores are kept
• My mistakes: puzzles you got wrong are asked again three days later
• Favourites: keep the puzzles you like; five samples are included

SOLVING
• The opponent's first move is played on the board, then it is your turn
• Move by dragging, by tapping two squares, with the keyboard (arrow keys and Enter) or by typing the move (piece letters in your language, piece symbols, or e2e4)
• Any other move that also gives checkmate counts as correct; on promotion you choose the piece
• After a wrong move: Try again or Show solution
• Two-step hint: first the piece to move, then the squares it can reach
• Step through the moves and flip the board

RATING AND PROGRESS
• Your rating is calculated on this device with Glicko-2, from puzzles you try for the first time; a puzzle solved with a hint does not change it
• The puzzle's rating and theme stay hidden until it is solved (can be changed in Settings)
• Rating chart for 7 days, 30 days or a year; puzzles solved and the share right on the first try; puzzle rush best; days in a row
• Success by theme, with your weakest themes to practise

BOARD AND SETTINGS
• FigBell's own piece set and four board colours; coordinates
• Moves written with letters or piece symbols
• Move sounds generated on the device
• Daily puzzle reminder

FILES AND SHARING
• Share the position as an image with its FEN, save it as PNG or copy the FEN
• Save your progress as a .taktiva file and open it on another device
• Back up and restore

Available in 11 languages, in dark and light themes, on phone, tablet and computer.

PRIVACY
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your rating, progress and settings stay on this device; nothing is sent to any server.

Puzzles: Lichess puzzle database (database.lichess.org), released into the public domain under CC0. Taktiva is not affiliated with Lichess.

Recent changes:
First release: 29,891 chess puzzles that work offline. No account, no ads.