About
The Magnus Chess Academy is recruiting students! Are you ready to conquer the chess world? Our new app combines education with entertainment, offering you a fun way to learn chess. Study interactive lessons, take on puzzles and mini-games, and play chess online! YOUR COACH IS MAGNUS CARLSEN, 5-TIME WORLD CHESS CHAMPION - Learn the secrets of chess from the highest-rated player of all time. - Magnus will guide and teach you throughout the app, offering feedback on your performance. - Challenge Magnus at various age levels. Can you beat five-year-old Magnus? How about at 30? - Let Magnus accompany you anywhere you like. Train your brain regularly and efficiently at home, on the go, or during your Zoom meetings. INTERACTIVE LESSONS - Created by World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and his star-studded team of chess, education, and game design experts. - Make the most of your chess training by following a structured plan tailored to your skill level. - Never played chess before? Learn the fundamentals in a series of introductory lessons. - Experienced amateur? Master the opening, middlegame, endgame, and throw some strategic principles and tactical tricks into the mix. - Tournament warrior? Reach new heights by taking a sneak peek into the home lab of the reigning World Chess Champion. - Learn by doing. Take on tricky exercises and answer multi-choice questions. TRICKY PUZZLES - Solve thousands of unique, entertaining, and high-quality chess puzzles covering all the key mating and tactical motifs in chess. - Train tactics at your own speed in timed/untimed modes. ㅤ ADDICTIVE MINI-GAMES - Bite-sized and exciting games designed to reinforce your chess learning. - Each mini-game has dozens of levels, ranging from beginner to advanced, making sure you will find a challenging fit to improve your skills and have fun! PLAY OTHERS ONLINE - Want to try out that new opening or tactic you’ve learned? - Duel other chess fans in our Challenge the World mini-game. It’s time to put your skills to the test! ---------------------------- ABOUT US Made by Chess Lovers - For Chess Lovers ㅤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playmagnus Twitter: https://twitter.com/playmagnus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playmagnus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playmagnusofficial Website: https://www.playmagnus.com ㅤ ---------------------------- TERMS OF USE https://www.playmagnus.com/terms ㅤ PRIVACY POLICY https://www.playmagnus.com/mca/privacy
Info
Release
Nov 17, 2022
Last Updates
Bugfixes and improvements
Rating
Rated for 3+
Genre
Board
Reviews
Very interesting app with great content. However navigating inside the app can be challenging and don't make sense. To start a lesson, you can choose how to start via a chat and answer suggestion doesn't change anything. Why a chat? There are quite a few bugs, when you finish a lesson, the list doesn't bring you to the next lesson, so you have to scroll up to find the next lesson. The app crashed randomly when playing matches. Overall great idea, but the app is not totally mature yet
Alexis Tran
it's a great app but it has big problems sometimes when I open the app it keeps freezing and when I try to sing up doesn't work I've been thinking about pay for it but until you solve the problems I'm not gonna do that other than it's a good app with fun and interactive puzzles and exercise.
Brahian Alejandro Vargas Holguin
The app is great. The exercises, explanations are top notch. Buuuuut in the end, the token system is very aggressive and the app's full price is extremely high. The greed needs to be tuned down a bit. Reduce the grind, be more generous with unlocks, make more things free, improve packs and we'll feel we're not overpaying.
Gustavo Dainezi
This app is amazing with Magnus teaching us his best moves and in-depth analysis. However, for the past few weeks I'm not able to access any of the content and lessons due to an error message saying that I'm offline. It didn't get resolved till date and I'm not able to progress in any of the chapters even though my connection is pretty stable.
Madhivadhanan S
Great app for learning chess. Has high quality lessons. My only complaint is that it is buggy. Some puzzles have more than one solution but if you play the move not programmed into the solution it is marked as failed. This also happens in mate in 1 puzzles. Because of this you will not always score three stars. Sometimes the entire board gets randomly filled with pieces if you accidentally try to make a move without first identifying the motif first.
Okeyo Kefentse
I am having a realy good time with this app (bought monthly subscription). Love the style of writing and the material that has been chosen. Keeps me engaged and creates feeling of progression. App is riddled with bugs though and live oponents usually use engines, so I'm very much looking forward to future updates. Hopefully very near future! ;) Edit: Canceled subscription until bugs and stability issues are resolved.
Edvinas Beinartas
please fix all the bugs in the game, whenever I try to take lessons, it always pops up and says that I am offline, even if I have a strong connection to the internet. Otherwise the best app to master the game of chess
Actually
Great concept, great design. Gave it a three because its constantly crashing. I know this is a new game, but hopefully the devs can fix the crashing issue. Also, it says I am offline, thus can not play the training mode which is weird since im running it on wifi. Again, its a new game, but ive gotta be honest. The game is built on a subscription model, so it is not free.
Gaige Caward
I'm stuck on the loading screen. Trying to sign up for the app, and I'm not getting any feedback when I tap the sign up button after giving my sign up details. Edit: Been able to log in using my old details, though the sign up issue still remains. Now, the new issue is with subscription. I subbed to a monthly plan, but for some reason, it hasn't reflected in the app yet. It still thinks I haven't, and as such, the premium lessons are still locked for me
Ultra Instinct Shaggy
The content is fantastic, but the UI needs work. The app runs very poorly (slowly, and at a low framerate) even on my flagship phone, and the GUI is inconsistent and feels tacky. Elements overlap, buttons are awkwardly placed, and although I like the idea of "gamification", it feels gimmicky in its current state.
Ouchtor
Real honest review here. excellent training in itself. I'm an average player and it uses really interesting ways to teach ideas and lessons. 5/5 starts on that note. However app functionality is a 2/5. forces closed in under ten minutes almost every time and makes my phone overheat. Could deal with that too but it doesn't save progress through a challenge so I'll keep trying to finish one just for it to close before I'm done. I love the design and would still like to use it. please fix function.
Donovan Lowe