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tChess Pro
Features
Screen shots
Engine
Analysis mode
Analyze game
Opening library
PGN support
Dual core
iCloud
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tChess Pro Features
tChess Pro has too many features to list in its App Store description:
iPhone App features
- Sleek, easy-to-use interface
- Fast and stable
- Allows you to listen to music in the background
- Animations and sounds
- Strong, fast chess engine maximizes battery life
- Support for the iPhone and iPad
- Support for the Retina Display
- Support for Game Center (both real-time and turn-based modes)
- Diagram graphics,
raytraced 2-D graphics,
or advanced 3-D graphics
- Open e-mail file attachments
- Support for iTunes file sharing (drag and drop)
- Support for iCloud to synchronize PGN database files
- Print games with AirPrint
- Export an image of the board to the camera roll
- Support for dual-core processors
Basic chess game features
- Play against the computer
- Play against another person on the same device (by disabling the computer opponent) or online (via Game Center)
- Fine-grained control of the difficulty level, from 500 ELO (beginner) to 2500 ELO (Grandmaster)
- Take back moves, get hints, and rotate the board with simple toolbar buttons
- In-game and full-screen move list
- Captured Pieces display
- Built-in chess clock
- Save and load games
- Opening database with over 15,000 moves so the computer doesn't play the same game over and over
- Displays opening names and codes from the
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings
- Profile feature allows you to play games against the computer for rating points and track your progress
- Two optional modes to flip the images of the pieces for 2-player games
Features for beginners
- Unique algorithms to provide a fun and challenging opponent specifically for beginners
(Most chess programs just make random mistakes at their lower levels)
- Visual highlights show the computer's last move and the legal moves for your pieces
- Board coordinates (A-H, 1-8) help you with Standard Algebraic Notation
- Built-in Learn Chess app (Apple Staff Favorite)
Features for experts
- Strong chess engine: over 380 ELO points stronger than Caissa Chess
- Set the engine to think for a fixed number of seconds or a fixed number of moves ahead
- Time control feature lets you to enter any chess time control
(1 to 3 stages, with or without a Fischer increment)
- Blindfold mode
Features for enthusiasts
- Analysis Mode lets you see the chess engine's analysis of the current position:
which side is winning (and by how much), and the recommended sequence of moves
- Analyze Game shows you a graphical overview of the current game within seconds
- Edit Position feature lets you enter any position, e.g., from a book, a newspaper, a game at the chess club, etc.
- Use the back and forward buttons on the toolbar and the Move List screen to quickly navigate the current game
- "Revert to last save" feature lets you save a game, try different moves, and quickly revert back to the main line
- Export your games via e-mail in standard PGN format
- Copy and Paste games in standard PGN format
- PGN Database feature to import and view databases of chess games in standard PGN format
- Opening Library feature lets you explore chess opening theory
- Optional extended opening library
- Self-play feature lets you see how the computer would play out a game
- Playback Mode feature lets you review a game without tapping the "forward" toolbar button
- View and edit the PGN tags for a game
- Annotation feature lets you view, add, delete, and reorder the annotations, variations, and
Numeric Annotation Glyphs
for each move
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