iPad software useful to study

Hi guys,

Being lucky enough to own an iPad, I'm trying to find an iPad chess app to study my chess books.

A simple board to move pieces and a kind of bookmark feature to come back to a position just after having studied a variant.

Do you know such an app?

I didn't find yet.

Thanks a lot for your help.

I use shredder for iPad.  You can setup positions, play and analyze the games.

Greetz

VC

With Everyman's Chess Viewer can play through pgn files and show variations and comments.

You cannot create moves in the program though. But great to repeat files that you created with eg. Chessbase.

chess db hd is a very cool database app.

It has some limitatations, but it I really like it!

Try Stockfish Chess, it has a very strong engine, it's free and can upload PGNs.

+1

Very easy to upload PGNs by connecting ipad to your computer/itunes

Mr. Silman sent me the link. The app pictures look great, very polished. Any idea when it's coming?? I can't wait!

Looks soooooo good! Just joined/signed up. When can I buy the books?

Yup, looks good. I hope they are able to greatly expand their catalog in due course and not limit the titles to the current set.

Does the app allow free movement of pieces for trying out alternative lines? If not, maybe a simple way to put the FEN code in the copy buffer would suffice - so that it could then be pasted into another app that allows free movement and analysis.

I like tChess Pro best for analyzing and experimenting along with books.

You can get PGN into the app via email or cut-&-paste, and it's one of the surprisingly few chess apps that can show you the whole move list and let you navigate to a specific point with one tap. It also now supports comment-annotations (but not variations).

It's simple to turn analysis on/off, and theres a setting that lets you configure the maximum thinking time to analyse a given position - a real battery saver. 5-10 seconds is what I use.

If you want to experiment, just save your game, mess around with sidelines, and then jump back to where you were with the handy "Revert to last save" feature.

Good stuff.

Thanks for the Q&A, streetfighter. I already asked Helen about FEN capability and got the answer super-quick. I imagine that might be something for a future version (hopefully). The promise of further books is very encouraging!

I can't wait! Check out the link.

http://vimeo.com/31392381

Oooh indeed! It looks like they are really serious about this - and good luck to them I say.

WHOA! Just downloaded it! Comes with Capablanca's book for free. INCREDIBLE!

Great app! I wish Silman's books will be available soon, and many others...

Haha! Sold! :)

My iPad is downstairs... I'll get to it. What have you got... real-time sales reports?? :D

e+chess is amazing, but the library is very small, any idea what new titles are coming ??