tChess Pro is the high-quality, critically acclaimed chess game with the richest features for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It's perfect for every player:
Beginners:
Not everybody is a chess master! Most chess games are too strong or just make random mistakes at easier levels. tChess Pro has unique algorithms to simulate human opponents.
Experts:
tChess Pro has a top-tier chess engine. (Over 380 ELO points stronger than Caissa Chess.)
Enthusiasts:
tChess Pro's Analysis Mode is like having a chess master in your pocket. You can get the engine's "expert opinion" about any game or position in real-time: which side is winning, and the best sequence of moves. Just like a professional desktop chess package.
More key features:
- Perfect for 1- or 2-player games
- Strong computer opponent
- Play against any ELO rating from 500 to 2500
- Integrated "Learn Chess" e-book app (Apple Staff Favorite!)
- Opening Library feature lets you explore chess opening theory as you play
- PGN Database feature lets you download and view PGN files
- Support for 3-stage time controls with Fischer increments
- Position Editor to enter positions from books, newspapers, etc.
- Save and load games; export them in standard PGN format
- Use the Profile feature to play rated games against the computer and track your progress
tChess Pro is developed by Tom Kerrigan, author of the TSCP and Stobor chess engines.
When you analyse the game you can drag the vertical green line (in the graph) to quickly go to the moves you want to evaluate. This is brilliantly done! But when you played black the board is flipped. This makes it impossible for me to analyse my moves. Please show the board the way I played the game. So during the game I played black and the black pieces were below. But during the ‘Analyse game’ functionality the black pieces are above. And there’s no way to flip the board.
The blue board looks great, the peaces also. But some variety would be welcome.
The ticking sound when you moved (and when the computer moved) is annoying. Again, some variety would be welcome.
It would be nice to also add a coach who warns you when you blundered. As well as a meter which shows who’s winning during the match. But only against the computer of course.
When I set the strength of the computer to 1080 it’s more like 1200 in reality. Even a tad higher I believe.
The price of the app is a bit steep compared to Shredder Chess for instance. But a nice addition to my collection chess apps, especially because of the superb ‘Analyse game’ mode when playing white.
All that I need
Great to play, analyze, set up problems, store games. Enjoy it how it enriches my games repertoire
Black background removed
There used to be an option to set a black background... but this feature is now gone, after many years of being a feature... I wonder why they’d remove it
Black background
I can not change the background annymore. In the past I could change the white background into a black background. Please let the chess Player change the background as he wish.
Many useful features and options
Best chess app on the phone
Nice to play
Very good app. Adjustable to everyones skill.
Nice you can go back and see what happens when you do an other move. It makes you better.
Great chess game
Absolutely love this chessgame, after trying a whole of chess games fron the store, i liked this one best so i bought it and it's great. Love the custom board and analysis mode, really easy.
Analyse
Een van de weinige programma's waarmee je je eigen partij kunt laten analyseren op fouten.
reasonable
Reasonable, lot of options, analysis of game is helpfull. Stability not so good though, frequently hangs during a game. Also when switching to another app and back, often the engine takes a rediculous move, like all game context has been lost and it must performs so me kind of legal move.
I expected better, especially since the pro version is not free at all.
