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My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps
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Robert Flesher



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PostPost subject: Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps    Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:39 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
tomgdrums wrote:
For what it is worth here are my rankings for Ipad (iOS) chess apps.

1. Shredder (by a nose--has endgame tablebase support with WIFI)

-Looks great
-plays nice
-best adaptive strength feature
-great opening book and endgame tablebase support
-only downside is no way to play timed games
-Awesome app!

2. ChessPro(CHESSTIGER)

-FUN engine to play against.
-Supports variations so analysis and playing through an annotated game collection are a breeze!
-easiest position set-up I have encountered
-only downside is that you can't play timed games on lower levels, no table base support and not optimized for Ipad (but it STILL looks great)
-I don't think you can resign a game.
-In actuality it is probably the app I use the most.

3. Hiarcs for Ipad

-best coach function
-opening book is easy to find
-adaptive strength, levels AND timed games!
-No real weakness other than no tablebase support compared to Shredder and game navigation is a little clunky but this is a great app.

4. Chessimo

-Not for play. For training
-Easy to use. LOTS of training material for the money! LOTS
-No real weakness

5. Chess by Mastersoft

-Looks nice and plays a good game of chess
-not much else to it.
-engine origins seemed shrouded in mystery

6. tChess

-Disclosure-I bought the lite version to test it BUT.....
-Everyone raves about the GUI for this. Why? Nothing special. Shredder and Hiarcs look better.
-Opening book is nice.
-I can't see any reason to buy the full version of this. I would rather download the free Stockfish.


7. Igrandmaster

-Don't buy it!
-Not bad but doesn't really do anything better or special than the ones listed above.

Just my two cents!

Final conclusion:

If I could only pick one: Shredder by a nose over ChessTiger (ChessPro)

And I mean just by a nose. Chess Tiger is a really fun and great app!



Great review Tom! Christophe is currently working on the I-pad version of Chess, so if you like it now, I am sure it will be amazing next update. Wink
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My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Tom Giampietro Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:34 pm
      Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Julien MARCEL Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:45 pm
            Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Tom Giampietro Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:44 pm
                  Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Julien MARCEL Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:49 pm
                        Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Tom Giampietro Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:12 pm
      Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Ted Summers Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:04 pm
            Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Thorsten Czub Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:21 pm
                  Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Ted Summers Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:25 pm
                        Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Thorsten Czub Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:40 pm
                              Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Tom Giampietro Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:49 pm
                                    Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Tom Giampietro Fri May 11, 2012 11:47 pm
                                          Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Bryan Whitby Sat May 12, 2012 8:00 am
      Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Robert Flesher Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:39 pm
            Re: My favorite (and least favorite) Ipad chess apps Tom Giampietro Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:46 pm
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