tChess Pro
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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
  • Saves your game and settings when you quit or take a call
  • Strong, fast chess engine maximizes battery life

Basic chess game features
  • Play against the computer or another human
    ("pass the iPhone" mode)
  • 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 feature
  • 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

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 ply
  • Sophisticated time control feature allows you to enter any chess time control
    (1 to 3 stages, with or without a Fischer increment)
  • Blindfold mode

Features for enthusiasts
  • Turn on the Analysis Mode to automatically start the chess engine and see its output:
    See who's winning and by how much, and get the recommended sequence of moves
  • Use the Position Editor to enter any position, from a newspaper, a book, a game at the chess club, etc.
  • Use the back and forward toolbar buttons and the Move List screen to quickly navigate the current game
  • Use the "Revert to last save" feature to save a game, try different lines, and quickly revert back to the main line
  • Export your games via e-mail in standard PGN format
  • Copy & Paste games in standard PGN format
  • Explore chess opening theory using the Opening Library feature
  • PGN Database feature to download and view databases of chess games in standard PGN format

© 2010 Tom Kerrigan tchessgame@gmail.com