Comparison

EyeGambit vs Chess Notation Mini Game

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

Head to head
About

EyeGambit

Train your chess visualization skills with a suite of tools designed for blindfold play. Improve board recognition, piece movement, and tactical understanding through interactive exercises and a progressive campaign.

Highlights
  • Square recognition training
  • Diagonal recognition exercises
  • Move recognition drills
  • Individual piece movement practice
  • Lichess puzzles with visualization
  • Local game play against friends or bots
  • Progressive campaign mode
Features
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If you ever wanted to play chess without looking at the board, or just improve your visualisation skills, but you don't know how to start, then EyeGambit is the App for you. It currently has multiple tools to help you train:  Board Recognition - Includes (a) Square Recognition - Get to know the board better and instantly recognise the square and what color it has. (b) Diagonal Recognition - Once you know from the position what a bishop or queen is attacking and what not, they will be less scary. (c) Move Recognition - Identify the moves you hear or see instantly. Memory - See a position or read a list of moves and then either replicate the position on the board or answer questions about the position. Piece Movement - Train the movement of each piece individually by playing a variety of minigames Lichess - You can either train lichess puzzles with the EyeGambit touch of difficulty, or connect to your Lichess account and send/accept challenges with your friends. Play Local Game - Play a game against a friend or a bot on your phone. You can still peak at the board when needed, but with time you will be able to do more moves without looking. Apart from the training, there is also a campaign to follow a progression to learn the skills (currently only for square recognition) More features to come!

About

Chess Notation Mini Game

Features
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Learn chess notation by playing through real games, racing the clock, recognizing board squares faster, practicing piece movement, and rebuilding positions from memory. ChessNotation is built for players who want to read, write, and recognize standard algebraic notation more confidently. Each notation training session presents a real position and asks you to enter the correct move in SAN using a dedicated chess notation keyboard. You get immediate feedback, can reveal answers when needed, and can review your results as you improve. Version 3.0.1 expands ChessNotation into a broader board-vision trainer. Home is now organized into four focused families: Notation Training, Timed Training, Board Skills, and Position Recall. Board Skills groups Square Recognition and Piece Movement drills, while Position Recall adds reconstruction practice after a timed study phase. This release also strengthens responsive layouts, accessibility, bundled-game validation, local history resilience, and external-keyboard support while keeping all training data local to the device. Features: - Practice standard algebraic notation move by move - Replay real chess games from curated collections - Enter moves with a custom chess notation keyboard - Race the clock in timed notation sessions - Practice square recognition with focused coordinate drills - Practice piece movement by selecting legal geometric destination squares - Practice position recall by reconstructing hidden pieces after a study interval - Use themed mini-game boards that follow your board-style and coordinate settings - Get instant answer validation and feedback - View board positions and game thumbnails for real move sequences - See stored current-position engine evaluations for added context when evaluated games provide them - Track notation, timed notation, square recognition, piece movement, and position-recall progress locally where supported - Keep training data local to the device with no accounts, analytics, advertising, tracking, cloud sync, or remote networking - Use external keyboard commands for supported answer entry, submit, reveal, next, and finish actions - Use accessibility-friendly board-square labels, non-color-only state cues, Dynamic Type-compatible layouts, and Reduce Motion-aware feedback - Review accuracy, first-try rate, completion, pace, score, latency, and weak move-tag trends - Filter history by today, last week, last month, or last year where available - Tap trend charts to reveal readable data-point values - Filter games by difficulty and opening - Customize board coordinates, evaluation visibility, and visual board themes - Use a responsive premium interface with normalized artwork across iPhone and iPad ChessNotation is designed for learners, improvers, and chess players who want a clean, focused way to study notation, build board awareness, and get faster with real chess language.

Screenshots

EyeGambit4 screens
Chess Notation Mini Game4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chess Notation Mini Game at every 2 days against EyeGambit's every 3 months. EyeGambit's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EyeGambit ships an update every 3 months, Chess Notation Mini Game every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
EyeGambit versus Chess Notation Mini Game: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEyeGambitChess Notation Mini Game
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFederico Paredes GiacosaMaximiliano Valdez Gonzalez

In-app purchases

None

EyeGambit

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Notation Mini Game

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EyeGambit free?
EyeGambit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Notation Mini Game free?
Chess Notation Mini Game is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EyeGambit or Chess Notation Mini Game have ads?
Neither EyeGambit nor Chess Notation Mini Game shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EyeGambit or Chess Notation Mini Game?
EyeGambit ships an update every 3 months, and Chess Notation Mini Game every 2 days. Most recently, EyeGambit was updated on September 27, 2026 and Chess Notation Mini Game on October 4, 2026.

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