Chess-wise 3

The Adjourned games get stuck at 16 because of bad connection and the game won’t let you play after that. Hard to resolve that issue.

When it works, it works great. But half of the times, the FCIS option where I want to play speed chess against others — the lag of device input renders playing not possible. Sometimes hard booting my iPhone XR and then relaunching the ChessWise app seem to solve the issue, but recently that doesn’t appear to do much anymore.

Overall I like this app. Pretty much everything works, but I have a problem changing the level of difficulty in the settings. It is not accessible to a screen reader and probably needs to be redone so that it is accessible. I’m told it’s a drop-down menu but I can’t access or change it from the hardest level as it’s set as the default.

Best light-weight chess client for FICS I've found, and it's also free99

I have been using Chess-wise for several years. I’m a club player and I find it easy to enter games on my phone after I play one over the board while at the site and the game is still fresh in my mind. I can export and import PGN files with ease to / from my computer in various ways. I also find it’s a very usable FICS client. The databasing and analysis tools make a great reader companion and when i run on an iPad its as useful as a very pricey pc program. The links to the latest tournaments and videos are a real nice touch. Once I had an import pgn issue and the developer personally responded within days and issued a patch quickly. For just a few bucks, i have seen this app grow with features over the last few years. There are occasional quirks after a release but they get fixed because the dev is active. Its fair to ask a few bucks because I have seen the effort that has been put back into this app over time.

Pretty good app I guess but some top players such as Capablanca and Judit Polgar are missing from the players list of top players. At least in my (2017) version. This doesn’t instill confidence in the reliability of other parts. Hope the tablebase part is 100% accurate.

Navigation within the game is illogical and beyond awkward. The developer apparently gave up on the game.

Very nice app. If Timestamp feature was added, to avoid eating your clock away due to Internet lag, this will be 6 stars. Also I am very impressed by the latest upgrade. Now it includes all the features of blind chess and more.

I can't start a new game, it always crashes. Please, fix it.

This is the best FICS chess application out there. Most of the bugs were fixed. There is still the bug on the iPhone when the chess board is expanded over the entire screen. The time is shown on top of the board making it hard to see.