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Android Chess Openings App

So it's been 4 months since my last blog post here. As you may have read from my previous blog post I am interested in chess and computers. My last blog post was on the topic of chess apps for Android. I was complaining about the lack of useful chess apps on android marked.

Sure, there are some good apps for playing against the computer - I personally like the Shredder App and there is also one great database app for storing your games (called Scid on the go). 

But concerning stuff like opening practice or endgame practise I could not find any apps that I really liked. So I started to make an app for exactly that purpose myself! I decided that to have an opening encyclopedia with all major openings and variations in one simple app would be kind of cool.

Aftera LOT of programming I ended up with something I think is useful and I decided to put it on Android Market for others to download (it's not free, but very cheap, especially considering the amount of time I spent on it....)

It contains more than 2000 opening variations and you can write your own notes about any of them and you can also share variations, position diagrams with friends and create bookmarks of your favourite variations. Here are a few screenshots from it.

If you are interested check it out on Android market ( search for "chess openings") and I would love to hear some feedback from the chess community in order to make it even better!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments


  • 6 months ago

    ian77efc

    Its a great refrence tool and well worth a quid or 99 pence as i payed , however notes dont work they are automatically delted every time apps closed but as fr the use of the openings and there variations a fantastic learning aid well worht it go buy it lol its cool 

  • 14 months ago

    theHeavenSmile

    Hi

    Its a good app, definitely worth a purchase for anyone trying to improve their opening play.

    Are you still working on the app? I can give you some detailed feedback if you like, there are a few things that need tweaking

  • 17 months ago

    zaifrun

    Well, I'm sorry to hear that - but there is video available on Android Market showing exactly how the apps works so, I don't know if you checked that out first.

    But yes, chess notation is neeeded, but it's not difficult to learn - in fact if you play on chess.com you see chess notation all the time, also in the opening explorer.

  • 18 months ago

    Bredal

    I just purchased your app and im kinda disappointed (which is what happend when there isnt af demo version available)

    I find it rather hard to explorer openings when Im, as a rookie, arent too familier with chess notation.

    I wish it would be like on chess.com where i make a move on the board and the game explorer tells me which opening im about to explorer and which moves are the most common ect ect ect....

    Actually, i had hoped it would be a "rip off" of the chess.com game explorer :/

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