Comparison

Elite Chess Database vs SnowPawn

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Elite Chess Database

Explore and analyze vast chess game databases, including games from top-ranked players and annotated matches. Solve puzzles for all skill levels and receive instant verification of your solutions. The app offers extensive customization and beautiful graphics for an engaging experience.

Highlights
  • View and analyze chess game databases
  • Access elite human games (2400+ Elo)
  • Study annotated chess games
  • Solve puzzles with mate challenges
  • Analyze games for best moves and blunders
  • Bookmark and add notes to games
  • Search and filter games by multiple factors
Features
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This app is for viewing, studying, analysing chess game databases and solving puzzles. It comes with some databases: - Elite database: chess games of human very high ranks, from 2400 Elo. All games are checked, and verified to eliminate errors and redundancies. Player names are checked, standardised too - Annotated games: almost all interesting games with annotations on the Internet. We believe it is the largest collection of annotated games so far - Puzzles with mates from 1 to 9: suitable for all players’ levels, for enjoying as well as for practising. Users can try to solve them and then ask the app to verify their solutions Users could analyse any game for computing information, best moves and for finding blunders. The total of all games and puzzles is huge. A typical human can’t watch and/or solve them all in their whole lives. On one hand, the app becomes the source of unlimited fun, keep every time they get new games to study and enjoy, and new puzzles to solve. On another hand, a huge number of games challenge users to use them efficiently and enjoyably. To help users deal with that huge number of games/puzzles, the app provides redundant ways, from auto-mark visited games, to bookmarking and adding notes to games. Users can search, filter games by many factors, and watch opening trees. It also provides a lot of statistics with many links/buttons to access them conveniently. Our app is very easy to use. Almost all functions are straightforward, users can use them without needing help. Functions are tested carefully for bugs and logical and convenient use. Features are redundant. The whole app is highly customisable. The graphics are very beautiful too.

About

SnowPawn

Features
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Master 1,000+ winning positions from real GM games and play them out against SnowPawnBot. Sharpen your conversion skills. Study the SnowPawn Opening Book — a grandmaster repertoire for White and Black, built to play for a win with both colours. Test your memory with Memory Check, and learn the SnowPawn Opening Book with the Guided Tour. Train free with a selection of positions and lessons. SnowPawn Premium unlocks the full library — subscription managed through your App Store account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Elite Chess Database4 screens
SnowPawn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SnowPawn at none against Elite Chess Database's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Elite Chess Database sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SnowPawn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Elite Chess Database versus SnowPawn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElite Chess DatabaseSnowPawn
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size423 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen PhamVahap Sanal

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Elite Chess Database

One-time1
  • Remove Advertisement$9.99
2 purchases

SnowPawn

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$29.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$199.991 Year

Questions

Is Elite Chess Database free?
Elite Chess Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SnowPawn free?
SnowPawn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Elite Chess Database or SnowPawn have ads?
Elite Chess Database shows ads; SnowPawn does not.

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