iPhone & Chess.com
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erik
Mar 2, 2008
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#21
:) here is the reason: probably 0.5% of our users have an iphone. but 100% of our users can benefit from live chess and other new features. it doesn't mean iphone is not a good project, but it isn't at the top of the list for now :(
No, I totally understand. The live chess and other PC features definitely should come first before any type of mobile application lauch. There just are not enough super-geeks to around. ;-) The chess.com website is great website! You should be very proud of your accomplishments.
Mar 3, 2008
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#23
The only thing I wonder is how the site works for (non-iphone) safari users (which are a pretty big percentage of your users ;)
Anyway, not complaining, the site is awesome, hope you get a chance to look at the iPhone stuff soon :)
My dad has an iPod Touch or whatever and he can load certain things, but not interact. My computer broke so for a time I could only play chess using my Wii or my school's computers. It was pretty lame, but at least it worked for the Wii browser. If it hadn't I would have lost many a game due to time.
erik, now when the same Safari browser is installed on all the iPod Touches, and the amount of iPhone/iPod users is growing, I hope you will think about optimizing "Live Chess" as well as "Online Chess" to work in those gadgets.
And users will appreciate it by buying "gold" or "platinum" memebshis ;)
May be everything alredy works correctly in iPhone/iPod, but I'd like to know if anyone had tested.
May 27, 2008
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#26
I have an iPhone, and haven't yet tried turn-based games on it. When I tried accessing Chess Mentor and Tactics Trainer I could not move any pieces; having not yet read this entire thread, I presume turn-based games aren't working.
Jun 27, 2008
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#27
To Erik and staff - please make a Iphone friendly version of this site. With the new Iphone coming out in a few days, it's a reason for me to start paying or a membership to chess.com.
Yeah, I'd pay a membership to get iPhone support.
we developed native iphone chess applicatio. I think we are doing much better than our competitors from GameLoft. I will gladly answer any questions.
Caissa Chess 2.0
- over 2500 chess openings
- New set of graphics (19 new boards, 12 piece sets)
- Sound notifications
- 14 levels of difficulty
- Unlimited undos
- Hints and force moves functionality.
- Load/Save/QuikSave/AutoSave games along with all settings and previews.
- Extensive use of CoreAnimations
- Incoming call/sms safe. Caissa will deactivate itself and bring back to the same state it was interrupted with.
- Energy efficient. if you happened to leave the application on. It won't drain your battery.
- Improved start-up time and lessened memory footprint
- and much more
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=282977560&mt=8
Caissa looks neat but, again, it seems to only allow people to play against the iPhone. If you could add a multiplayer option that lets me make a move on my iPhone that gets instantly transmitted to Caissa on a FRIEND'S iPhone (hopefully not by using SMS to do it but rather by sending the move to a server which then is sent to my friend, a la instant messaging), then that would be AWESOME and I would gladly pay money for that.
Jul 22, 2008
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#31
Caissa looks good for sure! I'll download it, but I wish that it was connected up to my turn-based chess.com games 
Hi, I just tested with iphone 3g with 2.1 version software, and chess.com works fine.
Raesonable speed with 3Mb Wifi connection
Thanks folks
ramonbartomeus wrote:
Hi, I just tested with iphone 3g with 2.1 version software, and chess.com works fine.
Raesonable speed with 3Mb Wifi connection
Thanks folks
Could you please tell me what software version is on your iPhone?
And does that mean that the first («2G») generation of iPhones can proccess chess.com nicely as well?
I just tried the tactics trainer, and it doesn't work on the iPhone (v2.1 of the iPhone software). It would be awesome if it did (click+click to move the pieces, instead of dragging)
DCTenor1 wrote:
Caissa looks neat but, again, it seems to only allow people to play against the iPhone. If you could add a multiplayer option that lets me make a move on my iPhone that gets instantly transmitted to Caissa on a FRIEND'S iPhone (hopefully not by using SMS to do it but rather by sending the move to a server which then is sent to my friend, a la instant messaging), then that would be AWESOME and I would gladly pay money for that.
Well. In Caissa 2.1.1 you can play turn based games via email. Online problem database. And there is a whole world beyond chess.com, the world without subscription fees. 
I have question to locals. How many users does chess.com have ?
If chess.com worked with the iphone, I'd never have to use any vacation time again...
And if you could get live chess via iphone, I'd never mind waiting in an office or in an airport again.
I was abel to play turn based chess on my iphone, but safari iften crash and show a black section instead of the chessboard. sometime is works and sometimes it don't.
ioffe wrote:
Well. In Caissa 2.1.1 you can play turn based games via email. Online problem database. And there is a whole world beyond chess.com, the world without subscription fees.
A world beyond chess.com? Oh... you mean FICS? Now if only Caissa could interface with FICS I'd really consider buying it... 
currently I'm looking at "t chess pro" for the analysis features and Cyber Chess Ultimate for FICS support.
As for chess.com's iPhone support, so far it works great on my 2.2 iPhone, but of course Live Chess kills Safari since there's no Java on the iPhone. Live chess is a Java applet, right?