Sharpen your chess skills with Mate in N Puzzles!

The Ultimate mate suite of chess puzzle apps!

This collection of apps has over three thousand different interactive chess problems ranging from easy to harder puzzles that will challenge you and help improve your chess skills. The object of the puzzles is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in N moves; where N is different for each of the apps ranging from 1-8. Each app has a large number of classical puzzles collected from a variety of sources. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Chess problems are especially useful for learning to play chess or anyone wanting to improve their skills.

New features added in Version 2.0 include:

  • Completely revamped chess engine that is much stronger
  • Timing clock is displayed while you are working on each puzzle. How long you take to solve a puzzle is stored.
  • New options: more chess piece sets (total of 7) and more colors schemes (total of 7) including wood and marble. (Improved the options menu as well)
  • Social Gaming:  Leaderboards to compare the number of puzzles you have solved with your friends and other players.  Facebook integration - including the ability to post your progress and ask your friends for help on a puzzle.
  • Universal app - works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - high resolution graphics all around (where supported).

 

Try the free demo version!    

Mate in 1 Puzzles               

This app has over 180 interactive chess problems that force a checkmate in one move. Mate in 1 chess problems are especially useful for a beginner just learning to play chess or anyone wanting to improve their skills.

 

 

Mate in 2 Puzzles               

This app has over 1200 interactive chess problems that force a checkmate in two moves. Mate in 2 chess problems are especially useful for learning to play chess better or anyone wanting a fun intellectual challange.

 

 

Mate in 3 Puzzles               

This app has over 1200 interactive chess problems that force a checkmate in three moves. Mate in 3 chess problems are especially useful for moderate to advanced chess players or anyone wanting to hone their skills.

 

 

Mate in 4+ Puzzles               

This app has 1000 interactive chess problems that force a checkmate in 4 to 8 moves. Mate in 4+ chess problems are especially useful for more advanced chess players or anyone wanting a really tough challenge!

 

 

Helpmate Puzzles               

Helpmate puzzles are a fun variation of regular chess puzzles! The twist is that both sides cooperate in order to checkmate black. The puzzles are challenging and addicting! This app is loaded with over 1000 puzzles from simple 1 movers all the way up to very challenging 4.5 movers in half move increments.

 

 

Acknowledgements

Yet Another Chess Problem Database

Stockfish an open source chess engine

The Mate in N puzzle framework is released under the GPL license: source.