Chess Genius 4+
Lang Software Limited
Designed for iPad
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- $5.99
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Description
ChessGenius, award winning chess program. Superb playing strength. The author's chess programs have won ten World Championships. Packed with features for beginners and experts:
* Simple, elegant user interface
* Powerful, compact and fast
* Hundreds of playing levels including easy, blitz and tournament levels. Network connection not required
* Displays thinking. Who is winning, by how much and the moves that ChessGenius is planning. Also Chess clocks, Captured pieces and Opening name. e.g. B12 Caro-Kann
* Save/load games in PGN format. Send games by email. Set-up position
* Easy import / export of PGN database files with iTunes file sharing
* Hint, Show legal moves and Tutor. ChessGenius can warn if a blunder/weak move is played and give the option of take back
* Unlimited take back and step forward
* Play against ChessGenius. Also 2 player, self play and analysis mode
* Optional display of captured pieces and count of positions searched
* Game is restored after exit and restart
* All functions work in Portrait and Landscape
What’s New
Version 4.1.00
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bigger, deeper opening book. Bigger by a factor of 2.5
New adjustable playing levels with Fischer clock
Ratings and Reviews
See AllPluses and minuses on interface
There are a lot of options for chess engines. The icons for the pieces need an upgrade here. I found only one of six appealing.
Two have lo res graphics, which is unacceptable for a premium priced app. One set is ugly, and the Russian set is two shades of grey, without enough contrast.
The list of captured pieces is nice, and surprisingly missing from a lot of other apps.
Just gives us a refresh and update
It’s working good. Nice platform and image. But it’s about time just to refresh and update. PLEASE! I’m giving it 5 stars now, because it’s still very good.
Good game, perhaps overpriced
I've owned Chess Genius in many forms since the 1980s, first on DOS then on the Palm and PocketPC. (I even still own a 1980s stand-alone chess computer based on an early version of the program.) When it first came out it was by far the strongest program available, though it's no longer in the top 20 on the PC as competitors have evolved ruthlessly over the years. The iPhone version is quite strong and smooth and has most of the features you'd hope for in a "pro" chess app. Well worth $3 or even $5, but $10 is perhaps a bit much.
[I've recently discovered Abaia, a free chess program for iPhones that have been "freed" in a certain way akin to the program Prison Break -- and it's a slightly better program in several ways. It's clearly stronger (to great my surpise), nicer looking, adheres to the GUI standards better, and is, well, free.]
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Lang Software Limited
- Size
- 1.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 Lang Software Limited
- Price
- $5.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.