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Big Box Chess
T Chess Pro utilizes PGN format (and iCloud) to read and store annotated games, from the GM's to your own. This database capacity alone is worth the price: playing chess against iDevice is there too but hardly crucial. Recording and analyzing games on the go, entering your own detailed notes and/or tabulating the game trend line are also most useful. A nice surprise is the beautiful iPad 3D board. A labour of chess-love throughout. Highly recommended!Show lesswanderm
Great app
No nonsense great app. It's been on my iPad since it was first released ages ago.
If you love chess, as I do, then this app is the one you need. It has also never failed to load despite various incarnations of iOS and whilst other, more flashy apps have crashed and burned this app has just carried on, just being... Well, great!
Money VERY well spent, hours of fun, plenty of customisation and suitable (thanks to the ability to adjust skill levels) for anyone from five to one hundred and five years of age!!Show lessA K A
Great for email chess
I use chess as a utility for playing chess by email through u3a. The computer help is turned off for this purpose. The facility to be able to take a photo of the board position and email pgn files is very useful. Also found it good to brush up on openings with the help turned on.Dekkap
Fantastic
Really good. If you like chess this is the one, doesn't matter if your amateur or world class you can adjust the computer skill level from kids to pro. Or play rated games where the skill level advances or decreases with you progression. And I especially like the turn based feature, where you play against other people through the game centre. You can take days to make a move before sending it to your opponent to do the same. And it's never ask for any more money, no in app purchases here. We'll worth the money. Oh and it even gives you tips against the computer. Not a bad word to say.Show lessCheckmater
Makes it's price back
Excellent little chess player. Good to play with friends and has intuitive controls, which make good use of the iPad's tech. Ratings system is solid.Diaord
Excellent App
Of all the Chess Apps out there this one is my Top Choice. The game engine seems to be very well balanced giving an appropriately skilled game at every level. Sometimes beginning players or those of us who are returning after many years feel overwhelmed but t Chess Pro offers a progressively skilled opponent as the player's skills improve.
The interface is neat and visually appealing with a choice of styles.
Recommended to the learning playerShow less3 Legged Dog
I really enjoy this!
This app has got me playing chess again after many years of trying to find a partner to play with. Thank you very much!AntonRobinson
Excellent
Excellent app, Also especially like the function of remembering the game number when studying pgn fileswen323
Good but flawed
I play this every day and even though I have other chess games like shredder I always come back to this because of the clean and easy to use board. But it is frustrating as sometimes its suggestions are wrong - I can get checkmate in 2 moves yet the hint is to do something completely different that might get mate in 20 moves. The worst thing is that playing the PC it has a tendency to want to play for a draw. I have been in a dominant position and about to win yet the using the hint move the PC plays for a 3 repetition draw ! I like to replay games with the hint to learn but too often it makes bad choices or repeats moved to force a draw when winning! Still, I do play it every day.Show lessPaperBridgeFan
Best app available for the serious student
A lovely app for learning chess. Been using it happily for months.
As you'd expect, it is great for just playing chess against the adjustable-strength AI. It also has game centre support, and the ability to import and export games via email. So play is very good and there are a lot of options.
Where I think it beats other apps is in supporting the serious student: Importing and exporting games in the standard PGN format; hints and analysis; openings database; a 'learn chess' book that includes tactical ideas like centre control and pawn storms, not just the rules. Very good if you want to become a better player.Show lessSteve Cooper
