Chess Complete

Chess Complete

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Chess Complete is a chess playing app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It consist of a configurable human-like playing engine, an innovative PGNViewer with support for variations, an electronic two players chess board with 2D or 3D pieces, and extensible training module.

Play a new game against the computer using your favourite time control and playing strength. Save or email your game.

Choose playing strength (from 800 to 2400+ elo, or random move mode to introduce kids to chess). Save your game.

Choose different time controls (fixed, with increments, or casual). Stop the game at any time to enter moves freely and later resume play.

Play Chess960 (FischerRandom)

Play blindfold chess with tree levels of increasing difficulties.

Use the two players electronic board to freely enter moves, or play against a human opponent.

Load any PGN chess game database to list, view, or replay games.

Use the PGNViewer to view a game as a colored book page, choose and play variations up to two levels, view comments and nags.

Setup any position using an intuitive interface and play it against the computer, a friend, or analyse it

Puzzle exercises amount to 1000 positions

Import and export PGN databases

HELP

Play Computer

Select Play Computer from the main menu. Enter the moves by simply dragging the piece from its original square to the desired location. You can also make a move by selecting the piece followed by the destination square.
To castle, move only the king two squares to the left or right in classic chess. You may have to slide the king on the rook or pass the rook in Chess960. The rook will automatically follow. If en passant capture is possible, you will specify the file on which it should be made.
When you promote a pawn the program will offer you a choice of pieces to select from.
Once you enter a legal move, the program responds within a few seconds with its own move.
The option (+) button offers several game options: Start a new game as White or Black, Enter Moves freely, Resign or stop the game, Save the game, or change settings.

Two Players

When using the electronic board to play against another human player, your opponent pieces are shown upside down by default. You may choose to rotate your opponent pieces whenever it is your turn to move.
The option (+) allows you to stop, save, or start a new game.

Load PGN

This feature comes with three major sections, for three different types of databases:

  • Common: Samples databases provided for your convenient
  • User Uploaded: Databases you uploaded though mail or DropBox
  • Saved Games: Games you played
Once you select a database, you can either remove it by pressing on the delete button or open it by pressing on the load button. If you load the database, you will be presented with a table listing every single game in the database. Select any game from the list. Once you do you can browse through the moves by using the left and right arrow button on the toolbar. You may also switch to the PGNViewer window which lists all the game's moves, with comments, NAGS and variations. Select any move in the list to jump back to the chess board screen, or select the return button to get out of a variation. The double arrows on the navigation bar allow you to move to the next or the previous game within the database. The option (+) allows you to rotate the board, go to the very first move, or go to the very last move in the game.


Training

A total of 1021 puzzles have been selected for your entertainment, as well as 45 learning positions to guide your reflection in various aspects of the game.

  • Puzzle: Solve 1000 puzzles.
  • Kid's Puzzle: Selected puzzle to train the kids (21 positions).
  • Simple Mates: Chess Complete teaches you how to mate (7 positions).
  • Ending: Ending you must know (11 positions).
  • Fundamentals: Fundamental positions you must know (12 positions).
  • Tactics: Tactical position you must learn to recognize (7 positions).
  • Strategy: Learn the strategy to carry in certain types of positions (8 positions).

Setup a Position

Choose a piece from the list and click on the square you want to put it.
Click on a square with a piece to delete it.
You can clear the board or set the starting position.
You may copy/paste FEN position to/from the clipboard.
Once the position is setup, you may provide castling rights, side to move, and En Passant square.

Settings

Change board appearance, timing, computer playing strength and more.

The following settings relate to appearances and may be changed while the game is on the way:

  • Board style
  • Pieces style
  • Table style
  • show coordinates
  • show legal moves
  • show evaluation
  • sound effects
  • figurine notation
  • show variations

Select a playing strength from an Elo of 800 to 2400 with 100 increments. If you select an Elo of 0 as playing strength, the computer will select a random move among all the legal moves of a given position.

You may play under four types of time control:
  • 1.Fixed time;
  • 2.Time + increment;
  • 3.Increment only; by setting a time of 0 + an increment greater than 0;
  • 4.Casual, by setting both time and increment to 0; user has no time pressure, but computer has 5s per moves.

Help

Use the about button to view version information.
The link on the about page will show this help page.
Click on support button to sends an email to OCEE Inc. through your device.