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title: "Memphis Chess Club - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "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 ga"
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# Memphis Chess Club — United States
> A History of Problems

![Memphis Chess Club App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/dc/85/b0/dc85b030-3254-dcac-635c-6a222eb692fb/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-4-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Gano Technologies](https://apptail.io/developer/gano-technologies-Qf)
**Category:** Games
**Rating:** 4.6/5 (51 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** name.gano.memphischess
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 4.4 (released 2024-01-01)
**Original Release:** 2011-07-20
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id448833169)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/memphis-chess-club-pYug/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/memphis-chess-club-pYug/united-states)

## Memphis Chess Club Description
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 500 interactive puzzles ranging from mate in 2 moves all the way to mate in 26 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 were taken from the book 'A History of Problems: Memphis Chess Club' by Kenn E. Thompson and Dwight K. Weaver (2011).  

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

## Memphis Chess Club Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/7d/7f/b4/7d7fb400-1dc9-2592-e3b4-11f2ddc82cbf/mzl.bizrmssr.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/f9/fd/da/f9fdda85-d51b-b597-6aca-a9bb80591052/mzl.sagaaluv.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/2e/fd/8a/2efd8a70-9e2a-888f-f7e8-e03ad5c50956/mzl.zceepihs.png/640x960.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/e7/68/05/e768057f-5a17-3286-db62-3ff0e4bf52a7/mzl.kszlpdwt.png/640x960.png)

## Memphis Chess Club Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 38 (75%)
- 4 stars: 8 (16%)
- 3 stars: 3 (6%)
- 2 stars: 1 (2%)
- 1 stars: 1 (2%)

## Memphis Chess Club Reviews in United States

### ****- "Fantastic but delay or lack of delay gives away correct move"
Wonderful but if you make the correct move, opponents piece moves right away. If you make an incorrect move, there’s a decent delay indicating you made the wrong move. A good solution would just be random delays added to correct moves.
-- Aliciskdks, 2025-02-23

### ***** "Most realistic chess puzzle app"
These are not “artificial puzzles “ but taken from real games. You can buy a book of puzzles from real games, but this beats them all!
-- KingKrusher1, 2023-06-03

### **--- "2stars only because it’s free!"
Abrupt quits are frequent, and the solver can’t produce hints or solutions for any of the mate-in-7 problems. So it’s good for all the problems up to mate in 6, which is good enough practice. It’s entirely possible that more powerful iPhones will support this app completely, so if you have an 8 or higher give it a try!
-- druariel, 2020-01-26

### ***** "Good practice"
These nice little challenges help me improve my game. A good mixture for me of easy and hard chess puzzles.
-- Dad in WA, 2019-05-17

### ***** "Great"
Good
-- Iron-chessman, 2017-10-14

### ****- "Great little program, but..."
I found all the problems entertaining. I found a number of alternate and quicker solutions to a few problems, but two of the problems had no solutions or were presented improperly (for instance black to play, instead of white to play)
-- Basx53, 2017-05-16

### ***** "Great value!"
The amount of value in this app is quite high. I do like the verisimilitude of the positions.
-- Adam D. Schneider, 2017-05-11

### ***** "A must have app for everyone who is interested in Chess"
It's fun, it's knowledge, it's learning,
-- Jaleeel, 2017-03-22

### ***** "Mate in so many real moves"
What makes this collection of chess puzzles stand apart from others is these appear to be taken from real positions in chess games. The player and opponent names are given along with their rating, if known, at the time.  This makes the puzzles more realistic as opposed to the utter nonsense of those fabricated setups we've seen before, made up purely for the sake of a puzzle. Lastly, this collection is pretty large at 500 puzzles and they range from mate-in-one to mate-in-eighteen (I believe). Thankfully, the number of puzzles are plentiful for us mere mortals on the lower end of the calculation scale.  I will add there is also a timer and a hint system. The board and pieces are somewhat customizable as well. Nice app. Fun and challenging.
-- HejDuke, 2017-02-12

### ***** "Lots of fun"
This app is a lot of fun!
-- PegCo, 2016-09-25

### ***** "Great practice in thinking ahead"
I especially like the problems where you have to find the checkmate in three or four moves ahead.  It gives me much needed practice in visualizing what the board will look like depending on which decision I make
-- Jrw012, 2016-09-11

### ****- "Great"
I'm a pretty good player but on a leisure level. I begin to find these challenging at mate in 4 and then of course progressively harder. I'm sure some are wrong Etc like pointed out by a seemingly very thorough reviewer but for me it all makes sense. The layout is the same as the "Champions" app also recommended. I also recommend Puzzle Hero. 
Have fun
-- Procrastigamer, 2016-01-24

### ***** "Great fun! The mate in 4+ really helped improve my game."
Great fun! The mate in 4+ really helped improve my game.
-- TwoCanSail, 2015-12-06

### *---- "nice app"
seems like this app hasnt really been updated since ipad 1.  same issues exist and same mistakes.  the solver has not worked on many problems since Ipad 1, and now in the ipad air 2 era the same issue exist.  You are given a puzzle, you cant find the answer so you decide to ask the solver for the solution, only to have the solver tell it cant be solved.  so you waste time solving a puzzle with out a solution.  Not just a few puzzles but many puzzles.  Also many are wrong.  also many puzzles will say mate in something but if you enter it into a chess engine the mate is in a different number.  They need to stop selling this app which has had the same problems since ipad 1 until its corrected and they should check their puzzles with a chess engine that is legit.
-- lefortfracture, 2015-07-02

### ***** "Money well spent"
The limitations on moves will force you to see new possibilities on the board. It's true that  these mates can be solved with more moves, but learning to creatively work yourself out of dire situations is priceless
-- Me, I wrote this, 2015-02-07

### ****- "Excellent"
It is quite a good little app for those of us who enjoy solving chess puzzles.
-- Presbyrev1964, 2015-02-02

### **--- "Ehh..."
Unfortunately, the "solver" rarely works if at all.  And these mates can easily be solved with an extra move so not much of a challenge.
-- TheBeebz, 2014-12-06

### ***** "Great App"
Interesting puzzles.  Really improved my chess skills.
-- Ballonist, 2014-11-22

### ***** "Really love this app"
I have their other app 'Champs'.  Both are really great.  You gain an appreciation for what checkmate really means--and the importance of forcing you opponent into vulnerable positions.  I'm assuming this app is best for beginner/intermediate players, but masters may enjoy the fact that your speed is timed.

Thanks for making this!
-- SorryDevs, 2014-08-18

### ***** "Great practice tool!!"
This seems to be helping my game a bit!  Fun too.
-- bawmi, 2014-06-19

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