iChess is great for solving tactics/puzzles and improving your Chess. It has many puzzles from 2011 GM tournaments!!
All puzzles are offline, so no internet connection required. Just launch and start solving!
=== FEATURES ===
☆ Analyze with the power of two Chess engines! (long press board -> Analyze This)
☆ 3 Levels (Normal, Advanced, Master & User level)
☆ More than 1250 puzzles (tactical positions) in all
☆ Load your own puzzles file in PGN format from SDcard!
☆ Bird View feature to view Solved/Failed and unseen puzzles. Tap on the number to load the puzzle
☆ Copy puzzle in FEN format. Long press on the board to see the option
☆ Hint for current puzzle
☆ Support for solving multiple moves
☆ Analyze previous puzzle (no engine support at the moment)
☆ Scorecard with Total score & count of Solved/Failed/Hints etc
☆ Many puzzles from 2011 Grandmaster tournaments:
- Baku Open
- Botvinnik 100th Open
- FIDE World Cup 2011
- 18th European Teams
- 4th Final Masters
- 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)
- Other recent tournaments (39th GM Dortmund, Germany, 98th British Chp, 8th World Teams China, AAI GM New Delhi, 39th World Open USA, Commonwealth South Africa, 1st China Rapid Prelim, Biel ACCENTUS GM)
Just launch and start solving!
♚ "Chess is 99% tactics" - Richard TEICHMANN
♚ "Chess isn't 99% tactics, it's just that tactics takes up 99% of your time" - Dan HEISMAN
♚ "A thorough understanding of the typical mating combinations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course." - TARRASCH
=== NOTE ===
* Not all puzzles may end in a checkmate, some players choose to resign!
* This is not an app to play a game against the mobile like "Chess Free", "Shredder Chess" "Chess.com" or "Chess for Android" available in the market
* This is not an app to play chess online
* Paid version has the same set of puzzles as the free version.
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Keywords: Chess, Tactics, Puzzles, Chess free, pgn