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Chess Tactics for Beginners is #68 in Games › Board Grossing in South Korea and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperChess King
CategoryGames
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (62)
Version1.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
12 Oct 2026
Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Chess Tactics for Beginners update history & changes
Last change · 3 events since 6 Sep 2016Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 2 events in the last 12 months
- 🆕Chess Tactics for Beginners first spotted by AppInsider#68 in Top Grossing · Board · South Korea (found via search)
- 🆕Chess Tactics 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
4.7 ★
62 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#68
Measured
Chess Tactics for Beginners on the App Store
App details
App ID
1142551734
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
NL EN FR DE EL IT PL PT RO RU ZH ES …
Size
44 MB
Also listed in
Education, Board, Puzzle
Chess Tactics 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.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Chess Tactics for Beginners before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Chess Tactics for Beginners makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchases
One-off purchases
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Full course |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Games › BoardGrossing | #68 |
Apps near Chess Tactics for Beginners on the chart
Games › Board Grossing, around #68.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
62 ratings
Measured
Ratings
62
Measured
About Chess Tactics for Beginners
This course is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko which became a sort of chess publishing sensation and sold over 200,000 copies. More than 1300 training exercises are intended for beginners, both children and adults. Elementary and simple tasks (1-, 2- and 3-way) are used as teaching material.
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. Mate in 1
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Mate in 1
2. Winning material
2.1. Gain a rook
2.2. Gain a knight
2.3. Gain a bishop
2.4. Gain a queen
3. Draw
4. Mate in 2
4.1. Double check
4.2. Queen checkmates
4.3. Rook checkmates
4.4. Knight checkmates
4.5. Bishop checkmates
4.6. Pawn checkmates
5. Sacrifice material
5.1. Queen sacrifice
5.2. Rook sacrifice
5.3. Bishop sacrifice
5.4. Knight sacrifice
6. How to proceed?
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. Mate in 1
1.1. Rook checkmates
1.2. Queen checkmates
1.3. Bishop checkmates
1.4. Knight checkmates
1.5. Pawn checkmates
1.6. Mate in 1
2. Winning material
2.1. Gain a rook
2.2. Gain a knight
2.3. Gain a bishop
2.4. Gain a queen
3. Draw
4. Mate in 2
4.1. Double check
4.2. Queen checkmates
4.3. Rook checkmates
4.4. Knight checkmates
4.5. Bishop checkmates
4.6. Pawn checkmates
5. Sacrifice material
5.1. Queen sacrifice
5.2. Rook sacrifice
5.3. Bishop sacrifice
5.4. Knight sacrifice
6. How to proceed?
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