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Chess School for Beginners is #173 in Games › Board Free in Italy and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperChess King
CategoryGames
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (647)
Version1.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
12 Oct 2026
Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Chess School for Beginners update history & changes
Last change · 3 events since 4 Jan 2017Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 2 events in the last 12 months
- 🆕Chess School for Beginners first spotted by AppInsiderUnited States (found via search)
- 🆕Chess School for Beginners released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
647 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#173
Measured
Chess School for Beginners on the App Store
App details
App ID
1152972332
Publisher
CHESSQUEEN INC
On the store since
Jan 2017
9 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 8.0+
iPhone 4s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
6
EN DE IT RO RU ES
Size
67 MB
Also listed in
Board, Education, Puzzle
Chess School for Beginners downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Chess School for Beginners's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Games › BoardFree | #173 |
Apps near Chess School for Beginners on the chart
Games › Board Free, around #173.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
647 ratings
Measured
Ratings
647
Measured
About Chess School for Beginners
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, which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, 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
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. Introduction
1.1. Chess board
1.2. Chess pieces
1.3. Starting position
2. Pieces' moves
2.1. Rook
2.2. Bishop
2.3. Queen
2.4. Knight
2.5. King
2.6. Pawn
3. Capture
4. Pawn promotion
5. The relative value of the pieces
6. Castling
7. The role of the king, Check and mate
7.1. Check and mate
7.2. Mate
7.3. Mate in one move
7.4. Stalemate
7.5. Perpetual check
8. Notation (How to read moves)
9. Elementary capture
9.1. Winning a knight
9.2. Winning a bishop
9.3. Winning a rook
9.4. Winning a queen
9.5. Win a piece
10. Simple defense
10.1. Retreat
10.2. Defending with another piece
10.3. Taking an attacking piece
10.4. Interception
10.5. Defending from mate
11. Chess skills development
12. The role of the king. Continuation
12.1. Mate in 1
12.2. Mate in 2
12.3. Discovered check
12.4. Doub
500 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student.
This course is in the series Chess King Learn, which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, 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
The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics:
1. Introduction
1.1. Chess board
1.2. Chess pieces
1.3. Starting position
2. Pieces' moves
2.1. Rook
2.2. Bishop
2.3. Queen
2.4. Knight
2.5. King
2.6. Pawn
3. Capture
4. Pawn promotion
5. The relative value of the pieces
6. Castling
7. The role of the king, Check and mate
7.1. Check and mate
7.2. Mate
7.3. Mate in one move
7.4. Stalemate
7.5. Perpetual check
8. Notation (How to read moves)
9. Elementary capture
9.1. Winning a knight
9.2. Winning a bishop
9.3. Winning a rook
9.4. Winning a queen
9.5. Win a piece
10. Simple defense
10.1. Retreat
10.2. Defending with another piece
10.3. Taking an attacking piece
10.4. Interception
10.5. Defending from mate
11. Chess skills development
12. The role of the king. Continuation
12.1. Mate in 1
12.2. Mate in 2
12.3. Discovered check
12.4. Doub
Latest updates
1.2
• App is updated for iPhone X
• New home screen
• Animated playback of theory with sound
• Date of reading the theory
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements