Chess puzzles aka tactics are an ideal way to practice and improve your chess without having to find an opponent or spend time playing an actual game. iChess presents 1000 offline puzzles from real FIDE tournament games. Just launch and start solving!
iChess is now available on iPhone and iPad! http://goo.gl/1GIu67
FEATURES
♟ Three difficulty levels makes it suitable for kids/beginners, advanced and even serious masters. All puzzles are offline. No internet connection required
♟ Load your own PGN puzzle file. Chessbase CBH format not supported
♟ Hint and engine analysis with Stockfish! Analyzing the puzzle with the engine is a good way to improve your game
♟ Bird View feature to view Solved/Failed and unseen puzzles. Or solve the difficult puzzles again!
♟ Master Chess openings by solving tactics from popular chess openings like Sicilian, Kings Indian etc (extra $)
♟ Improve your chess endgame knowledge with thematic puzzles like 'Tactics in the Endgame' (extra $)
♟ Get awed by games of Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen and other players with special puzzle packs or receive puzzle of the day from recent Chess events
♟ Solve puzzles from recent 2016 tournament chess games (extra $)
♟ New Material design! (thanks to Ilya Kostin)
NOTE
♟ Some puzzles simply win a pawn or a piece. Not all chess games end in checkmate!
♟ Puzzles/Tactics are arranged in increasing order of difficulty
♟ Thanks to theweekinchess.com and pgnmentor.com for the PGN files.
Free vs iChess Pro
$ Free version has Ads
$ Free and Pro version both have access to the same features
$ Upgrading this Free version via the In-App purchase to remove Ads (Settings), has the same effect as the Pro version which is available as a separate App
Popular Tactics packs:
★ Very Hard Tactics 1 & 2 by IM Slizhevsky
★ Best Tactics of 2014 and 2015
* Dark board theme is now the default. You can change it from App Settings - 'Board Theme'
* Crash fixes
* Accessibility support for 'Puzzle of the day'
* Improved accessibility support for some devices (please see Setting if accessibility does not work for you)
* Accessibility support for 'Puzzle of the day'
* Improved accessibility support for some devices (please see Setting if accessibility does not work for you)
* Fixed some puzzles in Master level
* Fixed Reset bird view bug which did not actually reset the puzzles
* Minor fixes
* Minor enhancements
EARLIER
* Improved Puzzle of the day from ongoing events. Now you can analyze, share or view the original game from where the puzzle was generated!
(If you wish to disable this, please see Settings.)
* Improved Puzzle of the day from ongoing events. Now you can analyze, share or view the original game from where the puzzle was generated!
(If you wish to disable this, please see Settings.)
* Improved Puzzle of the day from ongoing events. Now you can analyze, share or view the original game from where the puzzle was generated!
(If you wish to disable this, please see Settings.)
* Improved Puzzle of the day from ongoing events. Now you can analyze, share or view the original game from where the puzzle was generated!
(If you wish to disable this, please see Settings.)
* Bug fixes and enhancements under the hood
v5.2.x
* Fixed crash while opening your pgn
v5.2
* Now your purchases, scorecard and bird view can be backed up and restored, so you can continue where you left off if you get a new device!
* Your purchases from Android will also work on iOS and vice versa!
* Fixed some puzzles
* Fixed incorrect icons issue on scroll (Thanks Henning)
* Fixed 'My purchases'
* Fixed bug where purchased puzzle showed '...has no games'. Please re-download any puzzle which does not work.. Please re-download any puzzle which does not work.
Fixed bug where purchased puzzle showed '...has no games'. Please re-download any puzzle which does not work.. Please re-download any puzzle which does not work.
* Crash fix
* The App is now accessible (blind friendly!)
* Crash fixes
<b>iChess is now available on iPhone and iPad! http://goo.gl/1GIu67</b>v5.0.8♟ Opening large puzzles file is faster♟ Crash & bug fixesEarlier..♟ Replaced couple of Master puzzles (Thx CC!)♟ New wood Board design and UI experience♟ Brand new Store experience with puzzles from 'New In Chess'(Due to the magnitude of changes, there could be some bugs. If you encounter one, please email me, since thats the fastest way to get things fixed!)Details https://goo.gl/QHwsO1
