JuLieN wrote:New UNBELIEVABLY cheeky cloner in the AppStore: Nguyen Thi Yen, publishing "Chess-HD" today...
Here's a screen of "his" program:
iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-hd ... 76474?mt=8
Now here's one of Tom Kerrigan's "tChess Pro" program:
iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/t-chess- ... 45501?mt=8
As you can see, there are some "slight" similarities... The guy actually published Tom's screenshots as his own. As I didn't want to pay $2.99 to buy this clone or whatever it is, I have no idea if this is tChess. But Tom, whom I contacted, thinks it might be Stockfish, as it weights 7.1mb just like SF, when tChessPro weights 1.6mb. He'll contact Apple.
Incredible, shameless scam.
Stupid guy, his dev contract is going to be quickly ended by Apple.
I would like to ask you, or anybody with insight about the issue, about the disappearance of an app called CHESS™ who had a stunning ressemblance to Shredder.
A few facts about this app:
- it has disappeared from the App Store on May 25 at 16:00GMT, which is approximately the same time my 2011.03 update has been released
- the icon and a screenshot can still be seen here: http://www.appolicious.com/games/apps/6 ... m-ssmd-e-k
- the guy was giving his own app fake 5 stars reviews every day
- I suspect him to have posted really nasty reviews to other chess programs, including mine
- I had warned him by email but did not contact Apple on the matter (I would have done it eventually anyway)
- I believe it was using the Stockfish engine (but I'm not really sure)
I do not know what happened to this app, which was anyway more than borderline on a few points, and I would really like to know.
Please note that I'm not asking for its comeback on the Store.
// Christophe