Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 8384 ratings )

Games Entertainment Board Puzzle
Developer: Gano Technologies LLC

0.99 USD

Current version: 4.4, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 22 Apr 2010
App size: 14.54 Mb

The Ultimate mate in 3 moves chess puzzle app!

Sharpen your chess skills with Mate in 3 Puzzles! Beginners and experienced players will enjoy solving these chess problems!

This app has over 1200 interactive chess puzzles that will challenge you. The object is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in 3 moves. 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 3 chess problems are especially useful for moderate to advanced chess players or anyone wanting to improve their skills.

New features added in Version 2.0 include:
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- 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 1 Puzzles
- Mate in 2 Puzzles
- Mate in 4+ Puzzles

Pros and cons of Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles app for iPhone and iPad

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles app good for

I love your mate apps. I have them all. Mate in 1,2,3,4+ Ty for your hard work. Its about time someone made a puzzle game. For .99 this is a must. For any rated player new players will learn a lot so will us old dogs. Ty again A fan

I like this app quite a bit. When ever I am bored I find myself testing myself against these puzzles instead apps that waste my time.

This app has 1000 or so puzzles for chess which are difficult but possible. Pros: lots of challenging puzzles that greatly improve skill Cons: Hint only lets you know the first move

Some bad moments

The AI makes erratic, non-optimal moves. Some of the problems have no solutions (the AI cant solve for them, anyway). Not what you want after scratching your head for 5 minutes!

What good is the app if many chess problems dont have a solution. I after a long time of killing yourself to find the answer you give up and have the machine tell you the answer you get a message that there is no solution... Also so many with solutions that are wrong. .i ran some questionable puzzles, bc i notice a few had spite moves which meant it was not mate in three, and i ran them in shredder to verify, and sure enough, they were not mate in three.

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