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Chess Genius app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 8512 ratings )
Games Entertainment Board Strategy
Developer: Lang Software Limited
5.99 USD
Current version: 4.1.00, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 08 Nov 2008
App size: 1.65 Mb

ChessGenius, award winning chess program. Superb playing strength. The authors 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

Pros and cons of Chess Genius app for iPhone and iPad

Chess Genius app good for

... is an excellent chess player as usually from this high Quality programmer. I bought previous versions on Palm OS. This one plays better with fresh openings.
For those who used to play on palm , Chess Genius is still one of best chess program ever . I will just complain about the graphics, pieces and boards are really UGLY ... Just have a look on other applications on iPad/iPhone (like Shredder for instance), we are in 2012!
I wrote a comment and they listened and made some adjustments! The graphics may not be as good as cyber chess or caissa chess but the chess engine might be the best compared to chess classics, caissa chess, cyber ultimate chess and tchess and others. PGN feature is a good addition to Chess Genius superb qualities! Please increase the playing strength of Chess Genius if possible. I tried playing it with shredder 11 on my computer with a playing mode of 2 hours per game and shredder 11 won 3 games in 40 to 50 moves!
If you are looking for the strongest chess engine on the iphone, this game for you. The interface is simple but effective. Higly recomended. Strong play and ease of use. Thats what real chess player want.
Good engine - good for wide variety of play levels. Offers easy board setup. My one hesitation was the ugly graphics in the screenshots, but there is a more traditional, nice looking skin you can choose. Glad I bought it.
A lot of chess apps have come along since Chess Genius came out, but its still at the top of the pile. The interface is simple, usable, elegant - and the integration of analysis and naming openings is the best there is. (My one request/wish would be some indication of when you go "out of book" without having to turn on full analysis, but thats a relatively small beef.) This is still the only app that lets you import PGN game files/databases from a URL (all you need is a free Dropbox or Syncplicity account, for instance), so you can take your favourite grandmaster games or openings repetoire with you wherever you go. FANTASTIC!

Some bad moments

Graphical improvement is needed. Very bad quality. Opening lines are cut in the landscape mode, Chess pieces are not that HD as it says. and when playing you can feel that the app is little buggy when moving a piece. More importantly, no updates to fix these problems. They just add support to the new iOS and wait for other buyers. I think developer is quite a bit lazy. Just consider buying other apps.
Main menu could be showed. But all the buttons dont work. Reinstalling application or rebooting ipad hadnt make any result. iOS = 6, device = iPad 2 Please, update your application with fixed bugs! Thank you!
Ok I bought this for 8$ thinking this is the strongest chess app out there. So I decided Id put it up to the test! I played Chess Genius on the hardest and longest game possible and played against the SHREDDAR app! It takes the "genius" about 5 minutes per move and shredder takes about 20-30 seconds!!! So I played them against each other and shredder won EVERYTIME!!! I wasted my money so please get shredder and dont waste yours!!!!!
This is a terrible app.I could only play one game and there are no icons to start another game or to make any adjustments.It a bit better on the iPhone,I give this app a zero.

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