Description
A beautiful and elegant chess application for the casual player.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball: “Without question the best iPhone chess game”.
Playing chess has never been such a pleasant experience. On any platform! Everything is beautifully rendered; from the board and pieces to the way they animate.
Deep Green for iOS is the successor to the multi-award winning Newton version.
FEATURES:
- Play against engine or human, or engine vs. engine
- Adjustable engine strength
- Concentration setting allowing the engine to play more like a human
- Manual board setup
- Game playback (first/previous/next/last position, auto-playback, drag slider)
- Replay of last move
- Move suggestion (animated on board)
- Take back (undo, all the way back to start)
- Free choice between tap/tap and drag/drop moving (no need to set preference)
- Display of captured pieces
- Smooth animations everywhere
- Game and state saved between program sessions
- Rich, analog-type sounds (optional)
- Callout notification for check, stalemate, and checkmate, (optional)
- Vibration on check, stalemate and checkmate, (optional)¹
- Board coordinates (optional)
- Board auto-rotation (optional)
- Clean and beautiful user interface
- Two built-in skins
- And more…
¹) Vibration is only available if the iOS device is capable of it.
What's New in Version 1.2
- Optimized for iPhone 4 and iPad displays
- New default look of board and pieces (skin)
- Universal binary (i.e. iPad version at no extra cost)
Customer Reviews
Worth the wait
This is the chess app you want. No, not that other one, this one. Trust me.
Almost
The game crashes far too often. I find myself restarting the app several times per game. I don't lost progress, which is good, but I still find it very frustrating. I'm running the app on an iPad 2, so I don't think my hardware is the problem.
What am I missing
The game is fine, but I'm confused about previous reviews referring to the display/graphics as superb, stunning, beautiful, etc. Yes, it looks nice - but it's very simple and plain. Some may call that elegant or classy and I respect their opinion.. Based on the price and the reviews, however, I was expecting some smoking 3-D graphics. Yes, I saw the screen shots above, but chose to ignore them thinking there was much more to it. I'm sure this will be an excellent chess app, I just had my expectations way too high on the graphics.
- $7.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Apr 19, 2011
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 21.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Joachim Bondo
- © 2008-2011 Cocoa Stuff
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
