The Foolish King - game & book at App Store analyse

App power index: 100 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
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Developer: Stour Publishing Ltd
Price: 0 free
Current version: 2.7.3, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 03 Sep 2016
App size: 926.79 Mb
4.4 ( 7744 ratings )
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> 2.2k
Monthly downloads
~ $ 900
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The Foolish King - The Secret History of Chess

Long, long ago, when kings ruled the land, dragons filled the sky and magic still existed, two small children stumbled upon the game of chess. This is your chance to discover it with them . . . Join Pip and Holly on their magical fairy-tale adventure and become a chess master!

An interactive, smartly-designed, iPad app that is the perfect introduction to chess for children and adults alike – ideal for children aged six and above.

The app helps children and adults to learn chess with its ‘How To Play’ section, they can practice against the computer or their friend/parent and can join the world wide chess league for free! The chess league has a leaderboard showing results of chess games by age ranking as well as overall.

The Foolish King is a magical fairy-tale storybook about the secret history of chess - written by Lord Price and brought vividly to life by Martin Brown, illustrator of the mega-selling Horrible Histories.

Here are some recent reviews of the app:

- https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/the-foolish-king#

- http://writingfromthetub.co.uk/books/the-foolish-king-by-lord-mark-price/

- http://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/books/book-reviews-chess-masters-dinosaur-agents-and-a-terrific-toddler-tantrum-1-8135899

-http://www.techagekids.com/2016/08/the-foolish-king-new-chess-app-for.html

Features:
Learn
- Learn chess basics through ‘How To Play’ tutorials

Play
- Play ‘The Foolish King Live’ anybody else in the world!
- World wide chess leaderboard
- Play chess with the insects and bees from the story
- Play against the computer or your friend
- Help and prompts when playing chess
- Easy, medium and hard levels of the game available when playing vs computer

Read (In-app purchase)
- Your copy of The Foolish King book for £4.99 (Retailed at £10.99)

Beautifully illustrated throughout

With in-app purchase
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Available in countries
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Canada free
China free
France free
Germany free
Italy free
Netherlands free
Portugal free
Spain free
Poland free
UK free
India free
Japan free
Korea, Republic Of free
Poland free
Russia free
Turkey free
USA free
Korea, Republic Of free
Ukraine free
Available for devices
iPad2Wifi, iPad23G, iPadThirdGen, iPadThirdGen4G, iPadFourthGen, iPadFourthGen4G, iPadMini, iPadMini4G, iPadAir, iPadAirCellular, iPadMiniRetina, iPadMiniRetinaCellular, iPadAir2, iPadAir2Cellular, iPadMini3, iPadMini3Cellular, iPadMini4, iPadMini4Cellular, iPadPro, iPadProCellular, iPadPro97, iPadPro97Cellular, iPad611, iPad612, iPad71, iPad72, iPad73, iPad74, iPad75, iPad76, iPad812, iPad834, iPad856, iPad878, iPadMini5, iPadMini5Cellular, iPadAir3, iPadAir3Cellular, iPadSeventhGen, iPadSeventhGenCellular, iPadProSecondGen, iPadProSecondGenCellular, iPadProFourthGen, iPadProFourthGenCellular,