Fun Chess Puzzles

Lucian Musca

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Do you want to get better at chess? Download this addictive chess puzzle app and improve your chess skills today!

Fun Chess Puzzles has a collection of more than 4000 carefully selected chess puzzles also referred to as chess tactics, which range from simple to extremely difficult.
The solution of a chess tactic is the sequence of best moves to be played from the given position.
A chess puzzle is considered solved only if all the moves in the solution are played in the correct order.

Your rating is updated with each chess puzzle played. If you solve a chess puzzle, your rating increases, whereas if you fail to solve it your rating decreases.
Chess tactics displayed in the app are based on your current skill level.
The rating is updated according to the Glicko-2 rating system, invented by Mark Glickman.
The chess puzzles include a wide variety of tactical motifs: checkmate, blocking, interference, pin, discovered attack,
clearance, trapped piece, sacrifice, skewer, overloaded piece, advanced pawn, mate threat, removing the defender, X-ray attack, weak back rank, zugzwang, zwischenzug, perpetual and stalemate.

Featuring:
• Intuitive user interface
• More than 4000 offline chess tactics, which range from 1000 ELO to 2500 ELO.
• Support for tablets
• Several chess themes
• ELO calculation, ELO reset, ELO history tracking (Glicko-2 rating system)
• Share chess tactics with your friends via Facebook, WhatsApp, email, and more.
• Chess notation for moves
• Next chess puzzle selection based on your current ELO
• Report invalid chess tactics
• Strong chess engine analysis where you can analyze alternative moves or solutions to chess tactics
• Statistics for completed tactics
• Analyze your Chess Pro/Analyze your Chess Free App Integration to easily analyze your favourite chess puzzles
• Google Play Games Achievements and Leaderboard

Free vs Pro version
• Pro version does not contain ads
• Pro version contains all the features of the Free version
• Pro version has German, Spanish, French language support.
• In the Pro version you can manage your own chess puzzles packs and solve puzzles from the imported chess puzzles packs. To learn more about this feature visit https://sites.google.com/view/funchesspuzzlespro/home.

Permissions
Internet permission - is used for Report Invalid Puzzle functionality, analytics and ads.
Storage permission - is used for ELO tracking, Statistics, chess engine installation and chess engine analysis.
Vibration permission - to provide audio notifications during game.

Ratings and reviews

The puzzles are fun and interesting, and you they definitely teach you something about the game. The app does not do as well with scoring same result alternatives or making sure players actually understand WHY some lines are better than others. Pegging play to ELO is a super nice advantage of this app over others, but the occasional error, and the failure to explain, undermine the user's confidence in the rating and, ultimately, app's pedagogic value.

Very fine implementation, excellent puzzles,the elo rating is +300 . Only one little thing bugs me about it.Every time I park the App for whatever reason, when I go back to it I often find it has loaded or moved on to a new puzzle when I hadn't finished or given up on the old one. I find this very frustrating.Sometimes if a puzzle really interests me , I take a screenshot of it and load it into another App where I can study it at my ease and not be left wondering what the solution was.

Update: after the last update the opposite side moves often don't show until I restart the app. Please fix. I love this app and the puzzles. I have only two suggestions. Please, add the ability to switch to short chess notation. Also, sometimes when I am solving the puzzle and decide to take a look at it later on, and quit the app, once I load the app back, the previous puzzle is gone, and I have to solve a different one. Can you please fix that? Everything else is just great!

What's new

Older Releases
• Update targetSdk to API level 34
• Update the minSdk to API level 28 (Android 9)
• Add embedded chess engine
• Defect fixes
• Add Kosal Chess Piece Set by Philatype

Current Release
• Defect fixes