Features & Capabilities

The Ultimate mate in 1 move chess puzzle app!

Sharpen your chess skills with Mate in 1 Puzzles! Beginners and experienced players will enjoy solving these chess problems!

This app has over 180 interactive chess problems ranging from easy to harder puzzles that will challenge you and help improve your chess skills. The object is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in 1 move. The puzzles consist of 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.

Mate in 2 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).

For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps:

  • Mate in 2 Puzzles
  • Mate in 3 Puzzles
  • Mate in 4+ Puzzles

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Gano Technologies LLC
Rating:
4.00
(1)
Version:
4.4 Last updated: 2024-01-02
Version code:
862608846
Creation date:
2010-04-22
Compatible devices:
Size:
6.39MB
Price:
9
URLs:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-04
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Developed by:
Gano Technologies LLC
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/se/app/mate-in-1-chess-puzzles/id368403230?l=en-GB
Website:
http://www.gano.name/shawn/matepuzzles

User Reviews

I’m enjoying the app, some have proven to be a challenge. It be nice to find an app that had a mode that’d let me answer in notation rather than moving the pieces. Seems like it’d be helpful to be beginners.
by B-*****, 2025-07-20

Awesome chess puzzle app! I got the bundle and they are all great but this is my favorite (as chess in one are little easier than the others). I’ve really improved since I started doing these. I find myself recognizing mates again and again in my games with doing these. I’ve used like chess.com or lichess and their puzzles before, but have gotten more out of this app than those by far.
by Ap*****, 2024-05-31

Would love more setups!
by JH*****, 2023-10-14
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