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Chess Genius

By Lang Software Limited · iPhone & iPad

3.9 (10)4+$5.99Available now

ChessGenius, award winning chess program. Superb playing strength. The author's chess programs have won ten World Championships. Packed with features for beginners and experts: * Simple, elegant user interface * Powerful, compact and fast * Hundreds of playing levels including easy, blitz and tournament levels. Network connection not required * Dis

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ChessGenius, award winning chess program. Superb playing strength. The author's chess programs have won ten World Championships. Packed with features for beginners and experts:

* Simple, elegant user interface

* Powerful, compact and fast

* Hundreds of playing levels including easy, blitz and tournament levels. Network connection not required

* Displays thinking. Who is winning, by how much and the moves that ChessGenius is planning. Also Chess clocks, Captured pieces and Opening name. e.g. B12 Caro-Kann

* Save/load games in PGN format. Send games by email. Set-up position

* Easy import / export of PGN database files with iTunes file sharing

* Hint, Show legal moves and Tutor. ChessGenius can warn if a blunder/weak move is played and give the option of take back

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Developer
Lang Software Limited
Release date
Nov 8, 2008
Latest version
4.1.00
Requires
iOS 6.0 or later
Price snapshot
$5.99 USD
Source checked
Oct 23, 2026

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