iPad software useful to study

Great to see Silman on there, although the Endgame Course is probably the one book of his where I can follow most of the lines in my head...

Read the first chapter of Streetfighting Chess the other night, btw. Really enjoying it! :)

Not an impressive list of titles, I am planning to buy these books this week (through Amazon/new in chess), any idea if any of them is coming soon to e+Chess ? (I would wait as I love the program format !!)

MArk Dvoretsky school of future champs collection
Yusupov award winning course (7 books published so far)
How to Reassess your chess
the middle game (Euwe)
excelling at positional chess
The art of defense in chess
secrets of transpo tricks
turning advantage into victory in chess
elements of chess strategy- Alexei Kosikov
understanding chess move by move
Power chess program books 1 and 2
Understanding Chess Middlegames
chess strategy for club players
Winning Chess Middlegames

I imagine it takes significant time and effort to convert a book to electronic format, even if one has the text in machine-readable form already. It is great that e+chess has some good books in the pipeline. Maybe once people start purchasing them in numbers they can hire more staff to do conversions and the library will grow a bit faster. Until then, we may have to be patient. A potential problem is if everyone waits for their favourite chess book to be published by e+chess before they buy the app, the company may run out of steam. I hope that doesn't happen.

Apart from that one... what's it called... Streetfighting Chess? Dreadful book - absolutely dreadful! 

Seriously, based on the reviews I've read (on chess.com, and the one by Geoff Chandler) and the sample chapter, I've ordered a copy and can't wait to get stuck in.  

Any special offer for chess.com members?

Many thanks !

I read the Capablanca book that came with the App.  Never read it; always wanted to; most of the book seemed trivial until some rook endings that were pretty deep for me.  No offense to Streetfighter, but the other titles available right now are not at the top of my to read list.  So I just ordered SmartChess and played around with an included lesson for about 10 mins.  I liked the App better so I bought the Reti book - - never read that one either - - to see if a dead tree book would work the same way.  It does.

Even though I like the Smartchess App better, it really is going to come down to which App has content I want to read.  Let's hope the competition speeds both companies up.

Good news, Chessimo HD for iPad released!

http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/id480983124?mt=8

I have both smatchess and eplus..imo smartchess is good..but I really like eplus..eventually I hope to have all the books available for eplus..Been hearing a lot of good things about the Streetfighting book...

The current version of Smartchess doesn't work properly on iPad 3, due to the higher screen resolution.

C-Saw wrote:

I have both smatchess and eplus..imo smartchess is good..but I really like eplus..eventually I hope to have all the books available for eplus..Been hearing a lot of good things about the Streetfighting book...

According to the Smartchess developers, a fixed version for the new iPad has been submitted to Apple and should appear in the App Store once it has been validated.

Is it free?

Stockfish has downloads for iphone, touch and ipad, my question is will it work on an apple macbookpro?

Sigh yet another app that arbitrarily requires iOS 4.3 or newer when my ipod touch 2nd gen only supports up to 4.2.  Be honest, was that really necessary for this app?

I find e-plus chess books simply amazing in iPad! In iPhone it will be too small (screen size) to be of any help but anyone used it in an iPad Mini? How does it look? I am asking because your screen size has to be divided into half for text and half for the chess board. So not sure if it would be looking too small in iPad Mini too.

Is there any other competitor to this product that offers similar functionality?

^check out chess viewer app by Everyman Chess