For the android I like iChess by Asim Pereira as well as his Analyze This
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Feb 16, 2014
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I have an iPad and love it. There are a lot of chess apps and a lot of chess books in the iBook store. Here are some .
Shredder
Shredder lite
Chess.com
Stockfish
Learn chess! ( Maurice Ashley rules, puzzles lessons, etc)
Chessimo ( chess lessons)
Tactics Trainer
BC Take (chess puzzles like Knights tour by Maurice Ashley)
Openings
Pure Chess (nice looking 3D chess)
SmartChess! (Interactive book with board and movable pieces)
E+Chess (Interactive book with board and movable pieces)
Forward Chess (Interactive book with board and movable pieces)
Chess Opener
ChessU
Chess
Mate in 123
Chess camp ( puzzles and tactics based on the books with the same name)
iChess (puzzles)
Dino Chess (great app for teaching chess to kids)
The only chess app I can recomend from experience is Chess Pro (three levels: Free, lite, and with coach). It is an excellent app!
I use Android, and I really like the chess.com app. my other two favorites are Shredder and Chess PGN Master Pro.
A list of Chess apps I use. I do have many more, but decided to only list the ones I regularly use:
Note, it can be confusing that some apps share the same name e.g. "chess studio".
expensive, but good features
Stockfish
excellent for the price!
Shredder
includes plenty of tactics puzzles
Hiarcs chess HD
I like the choices of engine style - solid, active or aggressive. Hiarcs spends a realistic amount of its time to make moves when you select different time controls, much like playing against a human. Other chess apps often blast out moves pretty much immediately, thus using only 30 seconds of their time for a whole 30 minute game! However, I find the UI of hiarcs is pretty ugly, some kind of dreadful wood texture surrounds the whole board and you can't turn it off, which makes it difficult to read text which is overlaid. Setting Hiarcs to different elo levels will make for a beatable opponent - except that its opening knowledge doesn't seem to drop. Therefore trying it on 1200 elo, it has much better opening understanding than the average 1200 player. I experimented with this and I'm amazed at how much book knowledge even an 800 elo player has these days, according to Hiarcs.
ChessClock free - works great and I like that the interface resembles your typical digital chess clock
ChessBase online - access to a massive online database of games. However it's buggy.
CBase Chess - chess database with limited functions.
Chess Studio
PGN database with engine so you can analyse as you go.
Openings Pro
Pretty good openings database, with engine.
Tactics Trainer
Excellent tactics training with glicko rating of your progress.
Chess Tactics
Tactics training, using user submitted tactics. Some of which are good, some are a bit dodgy.
Chess Opening Trainer
The interface can be confusing at first, but once you've got the hang of it, a good way to store your openings and practice them.
Chessimo
Excellent. Even working on this for a couple hours every day it will take you months to get through all the exercises. Uses repetition so it gets into my thick skull.
Free for the first few sets of exercises, after that it's about $9 for the whole bunch.
e+ chess books (eplus)
Free and comes with Capa's book - other books for sale including Silman's complete endgame course. ebooks sometimes have audio clips included, future ones apparently can have video also. Sets up a board and moves stay in sync as you go, puzzle answers are hidden. Excellent.
forward chess (ebooks)
very big catalog of chess ebooks for purchase, sets up a board and moves stay in sync as you go. Excellent.
You can also buy Chess Informant magazine in this app, starting from issue 118.
Chess Viewer (ebooks)
Rather basic - you can buy Everyman published chess ebooks, but they're just PGN files. eplus and forward chess make this look rather primitive. I use it as a PGN viewer. They say it is the most comprehensive PGN viewer but I do not agree, perhaps when it was the only PGN viewer that was true.
New In Chess (magazine)
Like a PDF of the NIC magazine, but tap on a board or moves and you can play through the annotated games.
Free and comes with issue 2013 number 8 so you can try it out.
Chess Studio (gambit ebooks).
Small collection of gambit books, works the same as eplus and forward chess. Occasionally buggy (sometimes you simply can't connect to their server). If you like John Nunn books, good because that's the main author they have in this app. However I prefer the look and feel of this app to the other ebook apps.
There is a great list of apps in these lists! Are all of these apps available for both Apple and Andriod, or are some only available for one or the other? I'm trying to decide whether I will get an iPad or not and I feel like the availability of apps will be a deciding factor!
Stockfishs app is quite good and free including a strong engine (2500 rating strenght)
My favorite is also Chess PGN Master Pro. Not sure whether there's an iOS version.
It can even open CBH books if you have the (free) CBH to PGN app installed.
There's a free version so give it a try.
bluetrane, you might want to try it as well because as far as PGN viewers go I have yet to find anything better and I tried all the well-known ones.
scid on the go, and droidfish. Both are free and excellent.
Scid on the go : for having database in scid format, can be used both on computer and android device.
droid fish : additional feature in this one is you can add comments to the game.
bluetrane wrote:
Chess Studio (gambit ebooks).
Small collection of gambit books, works the same as eplus and forward chess. Occasionally buggy (sometimes you simply can't connect to their server). If you like John Nunn books, good because that's the main author they have in this app. However I prefer the look and feel of this app to the other ebook apps.
However, it's okay to use offline once you've downloaded an ebook, right?
Feb 21, 2014
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@fburton I would think yes. I have that app and it comes with a free samples (I haven't bought a book yet) and it works offline just like forward chess, smartchess!, e+chess, and chess viewer (Everyman ) apps do
baruchyadid wrote:
My favorite is also Chess PGN Master Pro. Not sure whether there's an iOS version.
bluetrane, you might want to try it as well because as far as PGN viewers go I have yet to find anything better and I tried all the well-known ones.
It looks great, it is only available for android. But I might get an android tablet one day so thanks for the tip.
Hey everyone!
I am thinking of getting a tablet for chess studies (That discussion can be found here: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/tablet-for-chess-study)
Anyways, I was wondering what chess apps people recomend, both free or not and ones for apple or android. If you could let me know that would be great!