New Application: HandyChess Online Chess

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

Now this is free for a week!!!!!

It´s really a good gui app but.... I can´t play online!! always the oponent is gone... strange.

Thanks for the heads-up! I'm downloading it as I type. 

Can you play on line? I can´t. I like the design of the app, the board the colours... but I can´t play online

Did it ask you for your FICS member info or anything?

Strange... I thought I answered this thread, but I can't find my post anywhere. Anyways, I've tried it and it seems as if you cannot see a list of available seeks. You can only challenge a player or create a seek. I'll stick with Magnus Super Online Chess for my FICS client

Yes, and in fact the app concets to FICS with my user and all looks ok. It post the challenge and when it´s acepted then the game overs.