ChessBase Mobile Chess

This app is the start of finally something for apple products. I currently have had to use VMare Fusion emulator to even run ChessBase on my laptop, but it only uses the slowest of stockfish engines :( I like that the interface is simpler than the original and relatively fast. Makes it a bit easier to start. I would, however, like to see the following changes: 1) Notation and Analysis on the same slide. I need both at the same time for the level of prep I do. Toggling between both is highly inconvenient. 2) Some Control over the engine being used would be nice. 3) Hot Keys for faster editing (especially symbols)

Great step in the right direction. Chessbase is the best offline professional training tool and am happy there’s an app to support it and I can imagine it’s only going to get better. It’s great to be able to access my games and the database without having to log into my computer. One of the great features the program has that I think would translate really well to the mobile app is replay training (aka solitaire chess). Chessbase’s version of this type of training is simply the best I have seen as you can get a score and compare against the engine which helps gamify what can otherwise be a difficult task as you’re trying to replicate the moves of a great player. While this exists in the app as Guess Variation, it doesn’t have the scoring and the engine comparison that exists in the program. Would love to see this feature! Also, I can’t turn off the engine. Shows up as Let’s Check automatically and I often don’t want to see the engine when reviewing games!

Looks like another fumble from ChessBase. Can you custom the app? No. You’re limited to a small selection of board colors and there’s no way to get rid of the distracting move arrow once a move is played. It stays there. On an iPad, there’s only a horizontal orientation offered, no vertical. Can’t make the board bigger, it’s pretty small on screen. The worst thing of all is that, although I have cloud ChessBase databases posted, and in fact, CB mobile shows there’s games in my databases, opening the database shows NO GAMES!?!? What’s up with that? And PGN databases I do have on my iPad won’t upload. For now, for iOS, you’re far better off with Chess Studio.