Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf
June 24, 2024
More About Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf
- **Personalized Coaching:** Experience the unique teaching method of Dr. Wolf, who not only instructs but also plays alongside you, providing insights into every move. He will introduce topics to you as you play chess, ensuring you grasp the “why” behind each move.
- **Audible Coaching**: Dr. Wolf speaks out-loud. Actual audio! Experience the unique advantage of having Dr. Wolf speak to you while you look at the board, offering clear, spoken explanations for every move.
- **A Comprehensive Chess Curriculum:** Engage with an extensive suite of over 50 interactive chess lessons. Starting from foundational concepts, you'll progress through to advanced strategies and tactics, all structured to enhance your understanding and performance in chess.
- **Mistake Correction and Practice:** Learn from your mistakes in a constructive environment. Dr. Wolf remembers all your moves and goes over them again with you so you don’t make the same mistakes again.
- **Diverse Coaching Personalities:** Choose from four distinct coach profiles, each with a unique voice, teaching style and personality. You’ll be sure to find the right chess coach for you.
- **Gradual Learning of Chess Vocabulary:** Expand your vocabulary and understanding of key terms and concepts at a comfortable pace.
- **Adaptive Difficulty Level:** Choose from a variety of skill levels, ensuring you're always challenged but never overwhelmed.
- **Multilingual Support**: Available in English, Spanish, French, and German (Voice mode in languages other english is coming soon!).
**Learn the game and how to win.**
"Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf" blends comprehensive lessons, personalized feedback, and interactive learning, offering a standout experience for those new to chess or aiming to enhance their skills. Whether your goal is to understand chess better, win more games, or simply enjoy this timeless strategy game more deeply, Dr. Wolf is here to guide you every step of the way.
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Dr. Wolf will coach you for free for 3 games of chess so that you can appreciate his style of in-game teaching. Then, to continue learning, you can subscribe to Coaching. With Coaching, Dr. Wolf teaches while you play chess, pointing out good moves and bad –both yours and his — and the reasoning behind them. At times, he'll gently suggest you reconsider a move, or ask a question at a critical moment. Plus, you get unlimited hints, unlimited undos, and unlimited access to our Lesson Library, with over thirty lessons in
Dr. Wolf's unique style. Whether or not you choose to subscribe, Dr. Wolf will always play with you. He loves chess too much to turn down a good game.
** TERMS & DETAILS **
Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged the same amount for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a Free Trial, if offered, is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
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Latest Version
1.47.1
June 24, 2024
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Android
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User Reviews
Firstname Lastname
3 years ago
Very good. 👍 Edit: I have some criticisms. First off, the different characters, while they appear to have some unique dialogue, aren't very distinct in regards to personality. It seems a tad monotonous. Secondly, I keep encountering a bug where the opponent calls a draw when there is no reason to do so. For these reasons I will be knocking my review down a star, but let it be known that I would only subtract half a star if I could.
Russ Southern
1 year ago
I love the format of playing a complete game, then reviewing mistakes right after. The app can't tell the difference between the best engine move vs second best. So it sometimes drills on a move even my titled coach says is better. App devs, letting Dr. Wolf at least notice that my move was fine, even if there was a slightly better one, would help a lot. The mistakes the app makes when playing aren't the kind of mistakes a human would make, but they seem to be deliberate with a teachingpurpose.
Jordan Brooks
3 years ago
It was an awesome app, teaching me all sorts of things I hadn't know before. I loved it. But suddenly I couldn't learn anymore until I paid a subscription. If I could just pay like 5-10$ for a premium version of this I would but a subscription? Now I'll never touch the game again. With limited playability I don't care how good the game is. Uninstall.
Austin Abreu
2 years ago
A great way to "humanize" chess engine training. The conversational style of the program and the way it describes the value of moves made me start working on my chess again. However, training mode misses on describing WHY a move is considered a mistake. Similarly, most hints simply give away the answer; sometimes I'm given an idea such as "The best moves serve two purposes" which is more valuable to my learning than giving away the answer. So far I'm enjoying it and learning a lot!
Nomadic Wolf
2 years ago
Dr. Wolf is remarkable. He slowly takes his time teaching you step by step, with variations & exercises that give ample context. Has helped me learn a great deal in a short time (beginner). Was debating it, but I may buy the yearly subscription just to support such a powerful app. Definitely wish there was a one-time-purchase option. Hate subscriptions, but love the content.
William Ortiz
1 year ago
I enjoy it. I was hoping to just pay for the app for its coaching features but there's a monthly/yearly subscription that I really can't be dedicated to with my other obligations. I think the yearly subscription may come out to about 3$ a month but I may not play for 3-6 months in between. But it's a really good app. There are some instructional exercises that you can really benefit from with adjustable game levels. You can learn as you play without a lot of pressure. Replace yourSolitaire!
DSK1NYC
1 year ago
Best beginner chess game available. Really solid, easy to understand way of teaching. Learn at the right pace all the way to advanced moves. I started not knowing anything & was beating the game in a matter of hours...with a bit of coaching from time to time. I've wanted to learn for years but never could until this app. Now I look forward to playing.
Drew Estes
2 years ago
The first lessons were helpful so I paid the monthly fee. This app is a decent way to get from beginner to intermediate, and maybe improve your game a little from there, but there are 2 significant flaws: first, it's really inconsistent at explaining WHY a certain suggested move is good, when you ask for hints. Second, these suggestions are often clearly not the best moves. I tested it by doing every suggested move he offered, and I lost the game. Cool idea, but not gonna renew my subscription.
2-D “ASA” Synctium
1 year ago
What I love about this is that from basic to high intermediate, you get a good grasp on development, attacking pieces, and finding quick ways to checkmate. By the time you play advanced, and especially on expert mode, the training becomes more about finding good sacrifices for strategic advantages, thinking in depth about your plans and your opponents moves, and trying NOT to end up in a draw or stalemate when in a winning position. I think it would be cool to see a lesson on strategic thinking.
Cristian Perez
1 year ago
Never would've bothered learning chess before this, it was a bit intimidating at first to be honest, but with this app it makes learning so easy. The coaching function is nice, but what really helps the most are the lessons that give feedback and the play mode letting me go back whenever I catch my own mistakes. I would recommend it to anyone trying to learn chess, I was able to pick it up very quickly!
Paul Ortmann
3 years ago
I'm really enjoying this and I'm making meaningful progress learning chess. It feels like learning from a patient mentor and friend. After playing for a while I paid for the annual coaching upgrade. The only thing I don't see in the app that I think would make it even better is standard chess notation. The notation could be displayed on the screen for each move, or maybe turned on and off in the settings so I could practice my notation skills at the same time. Thanks for a great app!
Roland O'Gilead
2 years ago
After a quick set of games up through advanced level I find the app to be ok. Blunders at intermediate level a bit. At advanced it asked to switch sides. My first move it said it was a mistake. I undid to switch back and the first thing it did was the very move it called a mistake. It is good for beginners. Im an intermediate level player. Ill keep trying it to see what I can see. I was hoping for more opening theory and a wider variety of openings used.
What If
1 year ago
Pretty good. Sucks that the last part of the beginner training is stuck behind a paywall, stopping any progress further, though. I feel that they at least should've let me finish the beginner training without paying, but what I've learned so far is heaps more than I would've learned otherwise. You'll be stuck at playing Dr. Wolf at a beginner level too, which I think shouldn't be that way. However, it's overall pretty good and if I had extra money, I might just pay because it's fun enough.
Austin
2 years ago
Covers the basics fairly well. My main criticism is that you have to click "Next" after every single move, which is quite frustrating. The bots are also strange. They will basically play perfect chess until making some ridiculous blunder. Good for beginners to spot hanging pieces, but not very useful to more advanced players. Finally, I'm not sure what is the point of the subscription. After ~8 hours I think you can complete all the lessons in this app.
Tsafrir Livne
1 year ago
Superb quality chess teaching. Challenging to the right extent, enjoyable without trying to please, allowing me to set the pace but hinting me when I should stop for the day. Limited ability to tweak in attempt to keep it simple so the focus is on learning chess. This app sets the bar for other learning apps, and it's a rather high one. I quickly became a paying customer because it was easy to see it was well worth it. Subscribing was simple and the process was straightforward and transparent.
Krista Errickson (blacksheep_nation)
9 months ago
I'm extremely impressed with how the lessons are laid out, and taught. After not playing for 40 years, it was great to see if I could grasp it again at all. The algorithm is intuitive to the player. I left off one star due to the price. For an app that doesn't require frequent updates, have the same level of tech as a photo, video, or AI app, but costs the same is not reasonable to me.
Jason Brant
8 months ago
Dr. Wolf's coaching method is both encouraging and effective for beginners. It offers foundational chess learning tools like undoing moves, hints, and advice on best choices, all optional. Post-game, it reviews mistakes, transforming them into learning opportunities by demonstrating missteps and encouraging better solutions. I'm genuinely impressed by this application's approach to teaching chess.
Reid Neilsen
5 months ago
This coaching app uses the players actual gameplay to create coaching problems and make you replay your own mistakes in gameplay. This has been surprisingly helpful to me. It's a good way to do self analysis with the engine/chess coach talking you through what you should be looking for in every position. I highly recommend this app for absolute beginners or for players looking to get stronger. 👍
Saint “Fu”
6 months ago
Having now played a few months, read several books, and used several apps, I've downgraded to 3 stars. The lessons and training options aren't comprehensive enough. You won't learn what you frequently do poorly with Dr. Wolf because it doesn't look at root causes of your moves/game. At most, it will show you your last bad move, but it doesn't currently have the know how to show you how your bad move really came from a bad move four moves ago. Good for basics/beginners, but little after that.
Jason Correia
5 months ago
Very nice app overall, but the jump from strong beginner to intermediate is a bit too dramatic. The computer's style at intermediate is quite hyper aggressive, which if played right can be taken advantage of. I wish there was a way to indicate you wanted to play a certain opening so it would "play along" to help you learn certain gambits and styles. I also wish the computer player would have a resign function - instead of 1 king vs a queen, 2 rooks, knight,bishop fighting to the bitter end.
