Mate Escape. Chess Puzzles is a chess teaching program developed by CHESSQUEEN INC for iPhone. It is part of the Chess King Learn series, which offers courses in various aspects of chess for players of all levels. This particular course focuses on defense and includes 380 exercises on avoiding checkmate, interference, and support.

The program acts as a coach, providing tasks to solve and offering help when needed. It offers hints, explanations, and even shows refutations for mistakes made by the player. The exercises are of different levels of complexity and have various goals to be achieved. Players are required to enter all key moves as instructed by the teacher.

One of the advantages of Mate Escape. Chess Puzzles is its high-quality examples, all double-checked for correctness. The program also allows players to play out any position of the tasks against the computer. It features a structured table of contents and monitors the player's rating (ELO) throughout the learning process. The application also offers a test mode with flexible settings and the ability to bookmark favorite exercises.

The free version of the course includes fully functional lessons that allow players to test the application before purchasing the full version. The application is also adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet and does not require an internet connection.