Leave a Review King's Cross
Would be a 5+ star program, if ...
. . . if it were not so enormously overpriced. At $10 or even $15 I would purchase in a heartbeat, but no way would I pay the current subscription price.Bosco666
Great app
I’ve been impressed with the quality of this app. It is helping me tremendously with memorizing openings.Pawn_mower (ALT Account)
very convenient and flexible
I’ve been using this app for chess opening preparation for some time now, and think it is very well designed. One can annotate and name moves and positions, organize openings using indentation etc.
When in training mode, each variation is encountered once if done correctly, repeated at a later stage if done incorrectly. After training one can go over errors using the ‘>>’ button. Adding the ability to choose to train only the variations that one made mistakes in would further improve the app!
The only thing the user needs to do, is to create their own openings, but there are other resources for that.
Also, the app creator responds to emails quickly and resolves the issues in reasonable time.Show lessdbsvk
Awesome app, but...
First the positives, it’s great app and very usable. It looks great and I love using it. Definitely helps learn the intricacies of openings. There are no ‘pre-programmed’ openings included that I could see, but to me that’s a good thing. Making the moves from the basics all the way through will help memory.
Please can this be a one of price? Subscribing for something that once is finished and stable as this app and therefore wont get all that many new features hardly justifies another monthly bill. Three months sub ($20), and going by other app prices, would be a very fair price as a one off. Beyond that, what are we paying for?
Also, please use Apple iCloud for syncing. What do you want my email address for?Show lessAdrian_B
Great app, BUT SHOULD HAVE A SET PRICE
This app is great and would get 5 stars if it didn’t have a subscription. $40 dollar a year is an outrageous price for an app that only serves a purpose once in a while. If I build my repertoire on this app, I have to keep up my subscription. I’ll stick with ChessTrainer, one time fee. Consider making it a one time fee and I will buy plus give it 5 stars.Show lessPinsandforks
Limited without EXPENSIVE subscription
An annual subscription is $40! If you expect to still be playing Chess in a decade, and you think that you will still be using this app, that’s $400! Without the subscription you are limited to 3 files. You could do your White rep, your Black rep and 1 new line that you are experimenting with. This might work well for many people. What I want is a file for the Sicilian, a separate file for the French and so on. (Full Disclosures: I really dislike subscription software!) If not for the limitation and the cost of the subscription, the program would get 5 stars. If I could buy it for $20 or $30, I would buy it and give it 5 stars. With the price of the subscription, and the limits on the program without buying a subscription, I will keep using Splashtop and a windows based program that I have been using for years.Show lessCrmcrm mr
Screw that
I’m not going premium. Useless app if you can only have 3 openings44444558358284
Amazing
This app is a must have for all serious chess players.
I have it on my iPad and my iPhone and I'm using it daily:)blitz28050
King's Cross rocks!
King's Cross is exactly what I was looking for. For a long time I have used Chess Position Trainer on my Windows laptop, but I wanted something on my phone and iPad that I could train with in idle moments. This app is perfect, just what I had hoped for.
So far I have loaded only one opening from my repertoire (several variations; 200+ moves), and I have trained on the app for only a couple of weeks. Beautiful. I am looking forward to giving it a whirl soon with some of the more complex openings in my repertoire.Show lessRubus_spectabilis
