Mastersoft Chess for iPhone

This one was cheap ($0.99), so I grabbed it the other night just to check it out.  It's pretty basic & has all the usual stuff; it's neither the best nor worst looking chess app out there.  (Check out the app's uquery page.)  Apparently, its engine is a relative of Gromit, and it's got a 23000-move opening book.

One thing about the app kind of blew me away though--or almost blew me away...  let's go with "would blow me away" if I can figure out how this works... Apparently, the app seems (potentially?  one day?) capable of handling variant lines and annotation.  In particular, see this screen-shot that shows options to include comments and lines:

The only trouble is... how to get them in there.  This screen is not (as far as I can tell) editable in any way.  Moreover, taking back moves and playing different moves on the actual chessboard does *not* seem to create sub-lines in this view either.

So either I've completely missed the train, or else this feature has only been partially implemented in the current version.  I'll be watching for updates because if this thing really does (will) support variations & commentary, it will be an iPhone/Touch first.

Of course, if it already does fully support variations & commentary, will someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong!  (I've left a question in the Mastersoft support forums, so we'll see what they say...)

Cheers

Looks nice - for 99 cents one can hardly complain

Yes, no argument there.  It seems like a very good choice among the $0.99 selection (which is now pretty big!).

Update:  Just heard back from Mastersoft Support...

You can update the "Info" fields for the game (i.e. the PGN header data) when you save the game (which I knew).

The Comments and Lines apparently "got past quality assurance" and they are going to address it in a future build.  I'm not sure if that means they are going to actually add support for variations and annotations, or if they are just going to remove those check-boxes & the false promise they represent.