Chess King - Learn To Play Negative Reviews

Chess King - Learn to Play App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Chess King - Learn to Play app received 19 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Chess King - Learn to Play? Can you share your negative thoughts about chess king - learn to play?

Chess King - Learn to Play for Negative User Reviews

✓ What’s the reasoning?I am a longtime beginner. I have read books by Bobby Fischer on the approach to chess from a beginners perspective, which assigned the numerical values to the pieces. Pawn being lowest & Queen the highest. His attack strategy was capturing higher value pieces while sacrificing lower value pieces with the ultimate goal of placing a king in check that he cannot escape from ( checkmate). These exercises do little to teach one chess strategies because they do not explain these strategies. They simply tell you that it’s your move and what they want you to aaccomplish. So you make a wrong move say in the strategy of playing for advantage; all of these arrows appear( supposedly to guide your movement) but when you follow the arrows you are told that is an erroneous move! What’s the reasoning with the arrows then? It’s very confusing and frustrating. So then you guess, but invariably are wrong with your guess. Finally it shows the move you should have made, but there is no reason or explanation given other than the history of that particular maneuver in a match at some time in the history of match play! It might be elegant but you don’t ever understand how it came about? Maybe you should quit with the arrows and guide better!.ChesscrapVersion: 1.1.3

✓ Interface is terribleI have played on the other apps and they are lovely but the interface for this app on my phone is horrendous. The font colors are off, the board does not show up during some puzzles. Great idea, poor execution.David284819Version: 1.1.2

✓ CrashesCrashes constantly on iPhone and iPad. What’s the deal?.Kingerin74Version: 1.1.2

✓ Oh dearWas amazing but latest update has broken it completely. Does not work AT ALL with dark mode / iOS 13!.BewareTheWereHamsterVersion: 1.1.2

✓ High priced but worth itOn this one, you get a little more than you pay for..CowDaddyVersion: 0.9.2

✓ Not free...Only reasons this is free is to get you to download it so they get another download on their stats to look good. Otherwise, everything is pretty much locked under rather expensive pay walls ranging from $8 for one purchase to $100 a year subscription. Developers, please show people your app is good by letting them actually experience it. You don’t need my credit card to give me a free trial..TheCuddleMonsterVersion: 1.1.3

✓ Mr ZUpdate is a mess on iphone. Dark mode which worked fine before the update ( app ignored it)is now impossible. Cannot read text..Edxc124456Version: 1.1.2

✓ CrashyUseful app. Various actions do cause it to hang and/or crash on my platform e.g. the animation interface, using the pager toward the top of the screen and sometimes during practice sessions. In instances where it will not restart at all, I have to go into the Library folder and delete the ChessKing container folder, which causes me to lose all my saved progress..Label97Version: 1.4.0

✓ Not useful1- Most of courses are out of date, it's not unusual to see a game from 1970s called "recent". 2- The games illustrated in each lesson lacks enough explanation. 3- Support services are terrible. They don't answer at all. 4- The engine used in the program is weak..اسنیپVersion: 1.2.2

✓ Crashes on latest iOSBeen trying to buy full course but app crashes when going to the purchase screen. Guys get this fixed. Must be losing lot of sales!.BonigalaVersion: 1.1.2

✓ Solid content but horrible UIThere are many solid courses available through this app but the UI is extremely poor and does not seem to be prioritized at all. It is a frustrating experience. Text is formatted awkwardly and there seems to be numerous encoding issues. Arranging content in tabs instead of a steady flow makes for an annoying experience overall. Potential to be a great app but is unfortunately very dated at this point.IiimpactzVersion: 1.3.1

✓ ScamIt’s impossible to play or do anything without being inundated with the fact that they selling you more and more and more. They never stop bombarding you with ways to pay them more money. Even though I paid a lot of money to get chess king on a Mac I cannot have a single game or do a single thing without being bombarded with the sales pitch they should have one page for sale pages and leave everything else so that people enjoy playing chess or learning chess on all the rest of the site but they’ve infested the entire applicationWith sales gimmicks.InnertronVersion: 1.2.2

✓ Practice problems don’t sync with other deviceThe practice section doesn’t sync up with my other iOS device. It synced up until I was half way through the book, but then it stopped and nothing I’ve tried helped, including removing the book, deleting the app, logging in and out, removing my user... So now I can’t switch between phone and iPad because I don’t know where I left off. Can’t drag a piece to the right. Instead of moving the piece, it opens the main menu..74256274Version: 1.2

✓ Have to Repurchase ContentI had previously purchased CT-ART tactics and then suddenly I have to repurchase it!? Tried using the “restore purchases” and nope. Terrible to make a shameless cash grab on the most popular item in the app..Dmb234Version: 2.1.0

✓ Fake translationThe app itself show all titles and texts in French but all the EXERCICES texts (most important) are English which is totally useless when you want to learn smoothly and 100% understand everything..MathieuSTPVersion: 1.2.1

✓ Just short of goodIt’s just short of good. It could be great, that would take some work. It’s not good because it’s to punitive, all the scoring and such, instead of being instructional. The games selected, do not discriminate in favor of great chess tactics, but instead are chosen based on all chess games. Easier to do, I guess. Like the interface, a lot!.Parki69Version: 1.1.1

✓ Annoying lessonsSo slow and mundane.Gorgon260Version: 1.4.0

✓ Google AdsDisplays Google Ads at the top of the app, which is very distracting for someone who is autistic. I’d like to buy the CT-ART 10 bundle on the Chess King Learn website, or alternatively several of the in app purchases, but before I do so I’d like confirmation this will remove the ads. I cannot find any reference to this on the store page, or on their websites (confusingly there are several domains with a vaguely 90s style). I have reached out to the developer via their contact email, but so far no response. Their teaching content may well be excellent, but so far their lack of any sales support doesn’t make me want to hand over any money..NtparsonsVersion: 1.3.4

✓ Rip off. Don’t buyThe description makes you think you’ll be getting access to the entire app for the $7.99 price. After you buy it you see that you only have access to a small amount of the lessons, which include zero tutorial or helpful information. If you want to buy more lessons it’s another $7.99 each. Too top it of, the App Store will not refund your money..Where is the nutVersion: 1.1.3

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