# Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600)

> Chess Training

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1122456569](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1122456569)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1122456569`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Chess King
- **Category:** Board
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (237 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2018-01-16
- **First published:** 2016-06-13
- **Size:** 43 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-tactics-art-1400-1600/id1122456569)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://chessking.com/ios\_privacy\_policy.html](https://chessking.com/ios_privacy_policy.html)

## Description

Chess Tactics Art (1400-1600) is a beginner-friendly tactical training course in the Chess King Learn series. It offers 150 teaching examples and 1500 exercises, organized into 30+ tactical motifs, with coach-style hints, explanations, and refutations to reinforce learning. The course sits within the Chess King Learn family, alongside other topics in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, across levels from beginner to professional.

Lessons include an interactive theory section with on-board practice, a free trial portion to test topics, offline access, and a test mode with adjustable difficulty. The program tracks your progress via an ELO rating system, supports larger screens on tablets, and provides sample topics such as opening lines, decoying, pins, and discovered attacks before full access.

## Rankings

- #96,720 — Overall

## Review summary

The app offers a vast, varied puzzle library (over 1000 problems) with a systematic, progressive teaching approach that reinforces tactics through repeated variations. Users report real improvements in ratings and puzzle performance, and praise the iPhone-friendly interface, smooth animations, and usable touch controls. It's regarded as suitable for all levels, including beginners, with many reviewers hoping for continued expansion. Some isolated concerns exist about upgrade issues and puzzle accuracy, but recurring feedback centers on quality, depth, and user experience.

### Pros

- Large catalog of puzzles (\>1000) across levels, with repetition reinforcing themes.
- Systematic pedagogy: from basic tactics to numerous variations, blending theory and practice.
- Demonstrated improvement in rating and Puzzle Rush/online performance.
- High-quality UX: smooth animations and touch controls, accessible on iPhone.
- Beginners-friendly and suitable for players at all levels.

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