Banksia - Big Chess database

Banksia - Big Chess Database

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	Free	Nguyen Pham	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Description

This is a chess database viewer, including a very large database which is over 4.2 million human games and a large database of puzzles (mate in 1 and 2).

Features:
- Free but include much larger database almost all other commercial iPhone / iPad chess databases
- good tools for enjoying, practise chess
- Choose between several board/piece sets
- Easy to control
- Rich functions
- Good graphics, hight alternative
- Include a very big chess database - over 4.2 million games
- Include a large chess puzzle of mate in 1 and 2 (over 6 thousand puzzles)
- Search/Filter games by players, events, sites or Opening (ECO)

Reviews

Very great app
Raju Shakya

Easy to find out any rated player's tournament games

Large Databases but...
LesLL

Crashes on iPhone 4 unless its the only app loaded. Games and puzzles start at final position and not initial position???

Chess database app
Kazoo kid 1

I really like this app. I was able to figure most of the functions easily. The auto play feature is a bit fast. It was like watching a 1 minute game. Needs to allow some speed adjustment. My main criticism is not with the app itself but with game information. Seems a lot of guessing was done on the player names. I could find my games from the 1992 US Open but the names were wrong. My first name was incorrect and one of my 2 opponents was as well. Also the event is not listed. Most databases have my first initial since the I used my first and middle initials. A habit I picked up from the old chess books I read ( like J R Capablanca ). All of my tournament score sheets are labeled that way. Unfortunately the middle initial was dropped in the daily bulletin. But that does not excuse altering the name entirely. I really think a better job of maintaining the information should have been done. Since this is not the fault of the software it will not affect my rating.