Description
*** 400,000 users!! ***
Chess-wise is a chess playing app for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad. It contains many nice features not found in any other chess program, like having an interface to the 6-men tablebase of Nalimov, and containing a large database of professional games.
A lot of attention has been paid to the graphics, with the aim to make it look beautiful, without any distracting bling-bling. All moves are animated. Captured pieces fade away. You can choose from 20 different sets of pieces.
Chess-wise has VoiceOver integration, making it the only mobile chess application which is fully accessible to blind users.
NOTE: a great companion to Chess-wise is the free app SocialChess, with which you can play correspondence chess.
PLAY
Games can be either for 1 or 2 players, and either with or without a clock. When playing without a clock in landscape mode, the view is 3 dimensional. Of course, all the standard features like swapping sides or rotating the board are available.
ONLINE
Chess-wise contains an interface to the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Play online against other people, get a rating or observe games played by masters.
ANALYZE
Chess-wise contains a separate screen for analyzing positions. You can try out side variations and return to the main line with a simple double tap on the corresponding move in the move list. You can ask the engine for an evaluation, or look up the ECO code for a position.
SETUP
You can setup a position using an intuitive interface.
TABLEBASE
And as long as there are no more than 6 pieces on the board, the exact evaluation is shown below the board. A really unique feature!
REPLAY
Look through the game you just played, and email the game notation, or copy it to the clipboard.
DATABASE
Chess-wise contains a large database with over 78000 games from over 700 tournaments, and a PGN viewer to play through these games.
ONLINE SEARCH
Another unique feature is online search in a database with 3.5 million games. Search by player name and ECO code. How are the grandmasters handling your favorite openings?
EXERCISES
Finally, there is a collection of 300 exercises which keeps track of which ones you've solved.
Each of these features alone is worth the price of Chess-wise! And regular updates expand the possibilities of Chess-wise even more.
Chess-wise is based on the Tjes engine (developed by me in 1996), and has played on the Internet Chess Club (ICC). The engine contains:
- an opening book
- ECO classification
Some more technical details:
- bitboard representation
- alpha/beta search with a search window
- partial move ordering
- 2 killer moves are searched first
- an extra ply after forced moves
- transposition tables (including a pawn hash)
In one of the next versions interfaces to the many online chess servers will be included.
This FREE version is limited in six ways:
- The hash tables are turned off.
- It contains three of the 20 pieces fonts.
- It contains the games of only six tournaments and two world championships.
- The online search results are limited to the top one.
- The 6-men tablebase is restricted to 4 pieces.
- The exercises are limited to 10.
Otherwise, the app is identical to the PRO version.
Enjoy!
What's New in Version 2.3.6
- fixed a crash in FICS on iOS 4
Customer Reviews
Great for FICS
This app is perfect for logging into FICS as a guest and playing a few blitz games.
Functioning normally after latest update.
So much fun and learning
If u like chess, do not miss it!
Good chess app
Great overall chess app online isnt the best but overall app is great love the exercises an how it allows you to see the preferred move great for amateurs
- Free
- Category: Games
- Updated: Dec 14, 2011
- Version: 2.3.6
- Size: 11.6 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
- Seller: Marcel J Nijman
- © 2011 Marcel Nijman
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later.
Top In-App Purchases
- Online PRO Features$1.99
