iChess for Android
iChess is a tool for the Android platform which helps aid in
the development
of your chess tactics and general gameplay. It holds many positions from
2011 Grandmaster tournaments.
Features:
- 3 different
levels of difficulty (Normal, Advanced & Master)
- Over 1100 puzzles (tactical positions) - not all of which
may end in a checkmate
- Option to randomly select puzzle
- Hint for current puzzle
- Analyze previous puzzle (no engine support at the moment)
- Automatically move to the next level if the last puzzle in
the previous
level is solved or skipped
- Many puzzles from 2011 Grandmaster tournaments:
- WCh Candidates (games of Topalov, Kamsky, Kramnik,
Radjabov)
- USA Ch
- 61st RUS Ch
- 20th Amber Blindfold/Rapid (games of Karjakin, Kramnik,
Aronian, Anand, Grischuk, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Giri, Nakamura, Carlsen,
Gelfand)
- 24th Leon Masters (games of Anand, Shirov)
- 30th NAO Open
- 12th EUR Ch
- 6th Women GP (games of Humpy, Chiburdanidze, Xu,
Stefanova)
- 73rd Tata Steel (games of Anand, Ponomariov, Carlsen,
Giri, Wang Hao, Nakamura, Smeets)
- Africa Men/Women
- 3rd Chennai Open
- 39th GM Dortmund, Germany (games of Kramnik, Nakamura,
Ponomariov)
- 98th British Chp
- 8th World Teams, China (games of Polgar, Ivanchuk, Leko,
Harikrishna, Sasikiran, Radjabov, Aronian, Svidler)
- AAI GM, New Delhi
- 39th World Open, USA
- Commonwealth, South Africa (games of Nigel Short)
- 1st China Rapid Prelim
- Biel ACCENTUS GM (games of Carlsen, Shirov, Caruana,
Lagrave)
- Scorecard with total score & count of
Solved/Failed/Hints
Verdict:
iChess for Android can make a significant
improvement to your chess rating by helping you identify
winning positions. There is a wealth of top Grandmaster games here to
study and analyze.
 7/10
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