Yes, sorry about that headline. It won’t happen again. But we’re quite excited about Chess Masters, a new educational app for older children and teenagers by Next Is Great.

It’s part of their Geek Kids series of apps, and a neat follow-up to their existing app Chess Academy for Kids, which was aimed at a younger age group, explaining the basics of playing chess.

This new app is more about learning from the (grand) masters, with 150 famous chess games involving the likes of Kasparov, Karpov and Fischer. Your child – although we’ll be honest, this could appeal just as much to parents – has to find the best moves to relive those historic victories.

Chess Masters can be played against the iPhone or against a friend, too, with multiple difficulty strengths available in the former case. Well, the latter case too, if you pick your friends carefully.

Chess Masters costs £1.99 on the App Store, and is universal for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.