Chess Puzzles: World Champions4.5 - App Store

Sharpen your chess skills!

Beginners and experienced players alike will enjoy solving the chess puzzles included in this app. All of the puzzles were hand picked and were either taken from actual games or are compositions inspired by actual games!

The app includes 645 interactive puzzles ranging from mate in 2 moves all the way to mate in 17 moves! The object is to finish each puzzle by forcing a checkmate in a given number of moves. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

All of the puzzles in this app are from the book 'Memphis Chess Club: Chess Problems by World Champions' by Kenn E. Thompson, Dwight K. Weaver, and Christopher McDade (2011) and is available in the iTunes Bookstore.

Other features include:
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- Timing clock is displayed while you are working on each puzzle. How long you take to solve a puzzle is stored.

- Lots of options: 7 chess piece sets and 7 different colors schemes including wood and marble.

- 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).
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For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps:
- Mate in 1 Puzzles
- Mate in 2 Puzzles
- Mate in 3 Puzzles
- Mate in 4+ Puzzles

Version History - Updated iOS and iPadOS Compatibility
- Minor bug fixes 4.5 Sep 6 - Latest iOS and iPadOS Compatibility updates
- Minor bug fixes 4.4 01/02/2024 - Dark Mode support
- Support for all new iPhone and iPad screen resolutions (+ MacOS Apple Silicon ready)
- iOS 14 compatibility improvements
- Bug fixes
- iOS 12+ required for this update 4.3 11/28/2020 - Added a new Color Scheme option: Light Green and Yellow!
- Improvements to iOS 12 compatibility 4.2 07/11/2019 - iOS 12 Compatibility updates
- A couple of small bug fixes 4.1 04/18/2019 - minor updates to improve compatibility on newer devices

New in Version 4.0
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- Support for the iPhone X including Super Retina HD graphics
- Significantly improved compatibility with iOS 11
- Speed improvements
- Many bug fixes 4.0.1 12/11/2017 - Support for the iPhone X including Super Retina HD graphics
- Significantly improved compatibility with iOS 11
- Speed improvements
- Many bug fixes 4.0 11/06/2017 - Fixed bug in which the app would crash or possibly not send the correct .pgn file in an email when exporting a puzzle.
- Fixed crash when re-running the hint solver multiple times
- other minor fixes and iOS compatibilities issues 3.2.1 04/10/2016 - Larger buttons on the game board + menu
- Fixed issues that could cause the app to crash when the next/previous puzzle button is pushed (especially when the hide solved puzzle option is enabled)
- other bug fixes and puzzle corrections 3.2 11/18/2014 Version 3.1.1
- Fixed: crashes on iPad 2 when promoting a pawn (due to an iOS 8 bug)

New in version 3.1
- iOS 8 support
- Retina HD graphics!
- Optimized for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
- Improved iPad retina graphics 3.1.1 10/10/2014 New in version 3.1
- iOS 8 support
- Retina HD graphics!
- Optimized for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
- Improved iPad retina graphics
- a couple of small bug fixes

New in Version 3.0
- iOS 7 Redesign!
- Puzzle list icons now match piece set piece signifies the number of moves for the puzzle
- New visual color theme picker
- New visual piece set picker
- Improved Facebook sharing (with board screenshots) [iOS 7+]
- Added screenshot of chess board to .pgn e-mail [ iOS 7+]
- minor bug fixes 3.1 10/01/2014 - iOS 7 Redesign!
- Puzzle list icons now match piece set piece signifies the number of moves for the puzzle
- New visual color theme picker
- New visual piece set picker
- Improved Facebook sharing (with board screenshots) [iOS 7+]
- Added screenshot of chess board to .pgn e-mail [ iOS 7+]
- minor bug fixes 3.0 02/06/2014 - Added the option to export a puzzle as a PGN file! You can e-mail the file or directly open it in another app.

- Added rotation for upside-down portrait

- Fixed a bug that caused puzzles to get skipped when the hide solved puzzles option was selected.

- Puzzle corrections for numbers 238 and 385.

- Other small updates and improvements. 2.7 05/03/2013 - iOS 6 Compatibility
- Optimized for iPhone 5 (taller screen) 2.6 10/11/2012 - Retina graphics update for the iPad! (including: chess piece sets - Alpha, Berlin, Cheq, Leipzig, and XBoard, as well as the marble and wood board themes). 2.5 07/06/2012 - Updated graphics for the new iPad's retina display
- iOS 5.1 compatibility 2.4 03/26/2012 - Added a "+" button at the bottom of the game board with options to go to the next or previous puzzle as well as help options
- Added an option to go to the next puzzle after a checkmate
- Fixed a couple of bugs and iOS 5 compatibility issues 2.3 01/24/2012 2.2 10/04/2011