Blind Chess Trainer Reviews

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Photonproton

No option to "flash" the pieces or get a correction for errors made in the game! How does the developer expect the user to improve without ongoing support? Also no info or help section. This app needs some work!!!!

Great entry application but needs some extra features

Hve1957

Great aps. I like the different levels you can do for blind chess training. However it needs extra features. E.g. After a game you should be able to email the game moves for further analysis. Maybe in PGN notation. Also it needs to balance the computer playing strengths the way shredder does so you get challenge every time by winning a few and loosing a few.

Great start!

trope

It does what it says it does, and that is to get you into the blind mode of playing chess. That said, I would like to also echo the ability to vary levels (but this is second to) email via pgn format. I don't care about the flashing although I just discovered that if you turn the iPhone or iTouch horizontally, you will see the board. I didn't understand immediately why the pieces were the same color, but after the 6th move, I realized it. Then the other training sessions just made me laugh, I am not playing checkers! and finally, blind chess! is just a killer! Great job and I would love to see more improvements. However, I wouldn't let these cries for upgrades to stop anyone from buying as it really will help you concentrate harder, and that's the point right?

Great app but needs some work - PLEASE!

Juci-7560

This is a wonderful little app, we love it. However, a few features of ChessWise should be adapted: 1) variable engine strength 2) save/load PGN 3) email game (maybe even auto-email so I could get my daughter's games automatically, like on ICC :-)) Can you work on it a little bit more please? ---- Update 2/9/13: Now the engine strength can be set, which is great and it deserves five stars. Can I suggest two more features (on top of email/save pgn) that would be easy to program: Count the number of flashes and the number of illegal moves. These would provide good feedback on one's progress.

Seems ideal

Reviewer918273645

I bought this a week ago or so, and during that time I certainly cannot have become adept at blind chess. However, the app works as described with no flaws, and it seems ideally suited to acquiring the ability to visualize the game without helps. Learning to see the pieces in the mind's eye without helps is probably key to learning the game as a whole. ...... I think that in the long run, the real 'blind chess' one should play isn't just sans pieces but sans board. Now that would be one interesting app to program! But it could be done easily enough. Just list moves, with no board. Present. A-H and 1-8 would be needed as input buttons, and a board flash button. Also, please consider making it possible to set up a position.