Chess: Simple Defense
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DeveloperChess King
CategoryGames
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (3)
Version1.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Oct 2026
Rating
5.0 ★
3 ratings
Measured
Chess: Simple Defense on the App Store
App details
App ID
1152972555
Publisher
CHESSQUEEN INC
On the store since
Sep 2016
10 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 8.0+
iPhone 4s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
14
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Size
44 MB
Also listed in
Board, Education, Puzzle
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
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|---|---|---|
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
3 ratings
Measured
Ratings
3
Measured
About Chess: Simple Defense
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 3000 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, 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.
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. Retreat
1.1. Defend your knight
1.2. Defend your bishop
1.3. Defend your rook
1.4. Defend your queen
2. Defending with another piece
2.1. Defend your knight
2.2. Defend your bishop
2.3. Defend your rook
3. Taking an attacking piece
3.1. Defend your knight
3.2. Defend your bishop
3.3. Defend your rook
3.4. Defend your queen
4. Interception
4.1. Defend your rook
4.2. Defend your queen
5. Defending from mate
5.1. Level 4
5.2. Level 5
5.3. Level 6
5.4. Level 7
5.5. Level 8
5.6. Level 9
5.7. Level 10
5.8. Level 11
5.9. Level 12
6. Difficulty level
6.1. Level 1
6.2. Level 2
6.3. Level 3
6.4. Level 4
6.5. Level 5
6.6. Level 6
6.7. Level 7
6.8. Level 8
6.9. Level 9
6.10. Level 10
6.11. Level 11
6.12. Level 12
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, 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.
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. Retreat
1.1. Defend your knight
1.2. Defend your bishop
1.3. Defend your rook
1.4. Defend your queen
2. Defending with another piece
2.1. Defend your knight
2.2. Defend your bishop
2.3. Defend your rook
3. Taking an attacking piece
3.1. Defend your knight
3.2. Defend your bishop
3.3. Defend your rook
3.4. Defend your queen
4. Interception
4.1. Defend your rook
4.2. Defend your queen
5. Defending from mate
5.1. Level 4
5.2. Level 5
5.3. Level 6
5.4. Level 7
5.5. Level 8
5.6. Level 9
5.7. Level 10
5.8. Level 11
5.9. Level 12
6. Difficulty level
6.1. Level 1
6.2. Level 2
6.3. Level 3
6.4. Level 4
6.5. Level 5
6.6. Level 6
6.7. Level 7
6.8. Level 8
6.9. Level 9
6.10. Level 10
6.11. Level 11
6.12. Level 12
Latest updates
1.2
• App is updated for iPhone X
• New home screen
• Disabled automatic playback of refutations
• Option to reset password
• Renaming of account
• Various fixes and improvements