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Learn Chess with Dr. Wolf

Chess.com · 26,468 ratings · ★ 4.8

4.8
★★★★★
26,468 ratings
5 ★
23,029 (87%)
4 ★
2,376 (9%)
3 ★
628 (2%)
2 ★
143 (1%)
1 ★
294 (1%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 12 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

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"game"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★ "Learning adaptive AI. So I've been playing on this app for over a year I believe. I have it set to a certain level. The game is adjusting far beyond the level almost like it's learning and adapting using AI. I'll get into positions where I'm dominating, and it'l…" - flippity floppity
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"play"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★ "Learning adaptive AI. So I've been playing on this app for over a year I believe. I have it set to a certain level. The game is adjusting far beyond the level almost like it's learning and adapting using AI. I'll get into positions where I'm dominating, and it'l…" - flippity floppity

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★★★★ flippity floppity 5/14/2026 v3.11.0
Learning adaptive AI
So I've been playing on this app for over a year I believe. I have it set to a certain level. The game is adjusting far beyond the level almost like it's learning and adapting using AI. I'll get into positions where I'm dominating, and it'll pull some grand master moves to rip the game away. It's making it not fun. If I improve but the game adjusts to my level of play making extremely advanced moves passed the difficulty level I've set, then I'm not learning anything. I can't use strategy and techniques at my level, just for it to pull a Bobby Fisher in two moves. Now this isn't the run of the mill "i'm just not that good". If you want it to be advanced, make that the advanced level. If the gsme is actively use AI to adapt to my level of play without me increasing the difficulty than it's pointless. You can see one played thousands of games. Nearly daily. It's really discouraging when I play a perfect game, leave no holes that a normal person at my level would recognize, just for the game to think 12 moves ahead and run diagnostics to go through 18,000 scenarios to find the one move that works. It's kinda dumb. I've been playing my entire life. As you can see I've won 800 plus games and lost over 2000. I don't mind losing. It's part of learning. But at a point it's getting unrealistically difficult and as I stated going from intermediate to grand master level when I start to win a few times in a row.
★★★★ Zoey Inanis 4/29/2026 v3.11.0
Don’t like it
Don’t enjoy the app
★★★★ Coach D. Dub 4/23/2026 v3.11.0
Dr. Wolf
He cheats by not given the player the correct score! I would like to play with a correct record! That would be fair! Right?
★★★★ Spapestronaut 4/23/2026 v3.11.0
Condescending prick
Doesn’t teach you just makes fun of you.
★★★★ Eagle August 4/9/2026 v3.11.0
Previous game
As a matter of observation; anytime your platform can beat me even though the game. Designates “strong intermediate” programming!!!
Also your most recent game exceeded “Strong Intermediate “.
★★★★ Hi I want the chat back 1/9/2026 v3.11.0
Why do you have to pay?
Like seriously why do you have to? It’s just coaching there’s nothing to pay like why do you need to pay? I’m deleting this app for the rest of my life.
★★★★ Person4895 8/13/2025 v3.10.0
Free version is weak
Very disappointed in the free version - just an ad for the paid one!
★★★★★ Alejandro Dela Vega 3/28/2026 v3.11.0
I haven’t learned much
Not great. You just don’t learn when it beats you all the time. Even moderate is aggressive.
★★★★★ MusterdBiskuts 12/23/2025 v3.11.0
Chunky
Feel robotic and uninspired.
★★★★★ Voltega 12/23/2025 v3.11.0
Will force you to pay
In the fundamentals 1, I have been stuck in the lessons of “capturing and defending hanging pieces” for months. No matter how many games I play, the number to qualify for the next lesson never comes?
The game is forcing me to pay just to get past this……
★★★★★ TrewGrit 10/20/2025 v3.10.0
Incomplete?
Why is there no Caro-Kann Part 2?
★★★★★ BelowFlames 10/9/2025 v3.10.0
It WAS good.
The greediness of chess.com continued with this apps downfall. You used to be able to do the lessons for free with some extra stuff costing money. Now you have to pay to even do the lessons making this app nothing more than just a chess.com bot app. You don’t get feedback, can’t learn new strategies nor strengthen your chess. Do better chess.com..

Sentiment summary

96%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.