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Here's the iTunes store link. When I saw this new title in the AppStore, I immediately thought it was ChessBase's Fritz, however upon further inspection it seems that this is an entirely different entity. I wonder if there's going to be some copywrite infringement case in the near future. Unless this really is the Fritz that we all know about except rebranded and with a better, more consumer oriented marketing strategy. The game is by Gammick Entertainment. Here's Gammick Entertainment's "sub-site" for the game (not sure what else to call it). Here's the official site for the game. It looks impressive from a graphical perspective. It's touted as being the strongest player in the world (Rybka might have something to say about that). There are versions for the XBOX 360, PS3, Wii and Nintendo DS (and of course, the iPhone, but that strangely doesn't get mentioned on the main page of the site). If you decide to purcahse it, let us all know what your experience with it is!

ChessDB iTunes URL ChessDB Web site ChessDB is an application that allows you to view millions of chess games -- all on your iPhone or iPod Touch. ChessDB is a database to hold your chess games on your device. With ChessDB, you no longer need to carry your laptop to be able to view hundreds of thousands of games or practice your favorite tactics. ChessDB comes with: Ability to download your databases to your iPhone or iPod. Tactical puzzles and model games in the Short Brilliancies and Blue Knights databases Games from Anand, Capablanca, Kasparov, Morphy, Staunton, and other notable masters. Openings databases, including ones for the Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez, and Sicillian. Complete games from classic tournaments and world championships, from the US Chess Congress in 1857 to the Linares Tournament in 2009. --- The devloper of ChessDB is a member of this group. His nickname is "pdt4aye". Post all comments and updates for ChessDB in this thread! Thanks!

I have discovered a hacky way to send Chess.com private messages from the iPhone/iTouch. It's not perfect, but better than nothing. The basic idea is that when you go to the "Send Message" screen, while the page is loading, it intially just shows a normal textarea instead of the "rich-text" thing that is loaded over the top of it. All you have to do is hit the "stop" icon (the small "x" on the address bar) in mobile Safari before the page finishes loading. Then you can use the regular old textarea to enter your message. Unfortunately due to page styling the text will all be invisible, so you can't really expect to type out a long letter. If you just need to send a sentence or two, however, it should be manageable. Also, if you are replying to a message, don't forget that the text from that message will be pre-loaded into the textarea. I'd suggest just doing a "select-all" and deleting it to make things easier, or you can try to get your cursor to the beginning to insert your message at the top as per usual. Finally, when you hit "Send Message" the page will first be reloaded (let it load all the way). You should see the message you typed in the rich-text area, now visible, so you can check it for any grievous errors before sending it off. Hitting the "Send Message" button again will send your message on its way. Hope this helps some people out!

Hello my Chess Friends, I have been working on an app for the iPhone. So far it is going well. Here are the first two shots of the app. More to come... I am still looking for beta-testers so if you have an iPhone and are interstested let me know. William

Chess Database: Over Half a Million Chess Games (URL opens iTunes) is a new chess app available for the iPhone. Check out the developers web site. From the developer's description: Chess Database is an application developed for iPhone users who are serious chess players. It contains over half a million games played throughout the history. This pocket data base is fully equipped with a strong search engine. The search engine provides various filters or combinations of filters such as white player(s), black player(s), are white and black opponents, ECO, date, result. These filters allow the user to comfortably search the games they want to view. The game can be viewed in a game viewer that is easy to use with forward, backwords, start, end, flip board options. Chess database also keeps record of your recently viewed games. No matter if you are at home or traveling, chess database will take you in the astonishing world of chess where you can watch the greatest tacticians in the history of chess at work. The program is $4.99.

I´ve notice that many of you use "chess with friends". Some members of this group have put their chess with friends nick in the "notes group" section of this Apple iphone/ ipod touch Owners group. I think is better to use the forum. My chess with friends nick is Ousland. You can challenge me ;) I´m sure that in the very moment chess.com app for iphone is done I will leave CWF and always use chess.com, this is because chess with friends is very simply (ie: CWF has not elo...)

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I just made a Tap Tap group for all of you to play Tap Tap and would like to invite everyone in this group to my Tap Tap group.Have fun! http://www.chess.com/groups/home/tap-tap-revenge#

GameLoft's ChessClassics (URL opens iTunes) is on sale now for only $0.99. I think the original price was: $1.99. No idea how long the sale is for. ChessClassics claims the following distinctions: The #1 chess engine for a super realistic game Ideal for beginners! Tutorials and a Quiz mode help you learn the official rules, plus tips and tricks. Human-like artificial intelligence for complete challenges Compete against friends in Two-Player mode. Play famous classic chess games of the past. 4 sets of themes 3 modes: Instant Play, Quiz, and Classic Games 3 perfectly balanced levels of difficulty

There are many iphone chess applications that use FICS to play on line chess. Now you can download your games played on FICS using this url: www.ficsgames.com

Hello my fellow iPeople, My wife has an iPhone (my old one) and just wrote about an app that she uses called Ewe Stash. Take a moment and look at what she had to say about it. Ewe Stash Article Thanks, Keyif

yesterday i heard someone talking about jailbreaking an ipod. what is that? any of u ever done it?

My iTouch is still jailbroken at 1.4. Why? Because it works. My battery life doesn't get drained by all these new features and apps I don't need. I don't need any of the 3.0 stuff. For 1.4 I just got the MobileFinder, Download Support and iShare. And a bit of text and image support. It works great, and I don't have to worry about getting caught up in the "Apple Frenzy" of paying money for new devices and new software. 1.4 is relatively stable, and I don't have to worry about paying for apps when the apps that are currently on the store mainly existed as freeware before they were commercialized. Also, might it be noted that i'm running one of the old chessmaster games through a gba emulator (don't worry, I own it for gameboy, or at least, before I lost it). It is a relatively strong-or at least for me-engine, that doesn't have many of the bugs of the apps. Just my 2 cents, or maybe dollar. Makes my life easier. I haven't synced with my computer in over a year, though I probably ought to back it up :/

Hello everyone. I just bought my first ipod (the touch) and I love it. I'm a newbie here, so I look forward to interacting with you all. I'm looking for a good chess application for the touch. There are many at the itunes store, but I thought you guys could advise me. I've seen a lot of discussion in the forum on applications (plus several that seem to be under development), but I'm not sure what the consensus is. I don't mind spending a couple of bucks (although free is always better). I'm just looking for an app where I can play a good game (offline) against the computer. I'm an average player, so it doesn't have to be at the GM level!

From the developer's own description: HandyChess Online Chess is a simple yet powerful iPhone and iPod Touch online chess client. It is designed to be handy for both novices and experienced chess players, it usually takes just three taps to start a new chess game. HandyChess is focused on making things simple, but no simpler than an experienced chess player needs. HandyChess uses FICS - Free Internet Chess Server (www.freechess.org). This is the most popular chess server in the Internet with more than 310,000 registered users and at almost any given time more than 1000 people online ready to play with you. There is no problem to find an opponent of your desired level in seconds. When you seek an opponent, HandyChess gives the option to resume any paused games, then looks for other users that meet your formula. Features: - Only online play, no computer opponents - Carefully crafted chessboard that looks like a natural wooden chessboard - Clear chess pieces based on the Traveller Standard chess font - Easy one-tap connection to chess server - Fast and simple game seek mode (two taps in most cases) - Ability to challenge your friends and accept their challenges - Name, time, last move and rating is always on screen when playing - Rematch support, automatic challenge to last opponent with the same settings - Options to abort and adjourn games, automatic resume of adjourned games - Option to show legal chess moves - Simple FICS registration link HandyChess is based on the powerful Cocos2D graphics library by Ricardo Quesada. Price as of June 29 2009: $2.99

For a limited time, these programs are one dollar cheaper: Caissa Chess Pro and Caissa Puzzles Caissa Chess

I´ve used palm chess programs, pocketpc chess programs and I have an idea of how the perfect program should be. Personaly I think we have great GUI on iphone (Shredder), beautifull playing style engines (Glaurung), great puzzles (Zebra)... but for exampley we have no program to manage chess data bases (on pocketpc there many, for example the freeware ceboard). What do you miss on your pocket?

So, what does everyone think about it? Here's a good article on "How to use the 40 best features of iPhone 3.0"

Cascadia Games's "Mini Chess" (URL opens iTunes) is on sale for this week (I'm not sure which exact week they are referring to, so I'm not sure if it will end this Sunday June the 28th or next Sunday July the 5th). Normally $1.99 it is now $0.99. Mini Chess is a chess variant that is played on a 6x6 board. Have a look at the Mini Chess web site for more information.

OK i just got a new ipod touch, and i wanted to know some Apps that would be awesome, so..ya know just comment the apps u like!