ChessBase Online
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $4.99 | ChessBase Schachprogramme- Schachdatenbank Verlags GmbH | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
You can look through on your iPad ( or iPhone or iPod touch) all the great tournaments, like Zürich 1953 or the Fischer-Spassky match 1972, the chess detective story Karpov versus Korchnoi 1978 or Nakamura's amazing victory in Wijk aan Zee 2011. Or you can load the games of Magnus Carlsen and see what makes the young Norwegian so irresistible. And you can also study the latest opening variations and access statistcs for all opening positions. Whether you are a chess professional or an amateur: the ChessBase Online database will become indispensable from the first time you use it.
Features:
• 6 million games of chess: carefully edited and maintained by the ChessBase team of grandmasters
• weekly games update: up-to-date material from all important tournaments
• searchable by opening position, player, tournament, year
• super-rapid system response times
• for every opening position, all the moves and the statistics
• professional board graphics in 5 designs, with coordinates
• easy move entry
• games presented with complete notation
• access to player info, including pictures
• Engine (iPhone and iPod Touch: landscape only)
• Import PGN files through iTunes file sharing
Reviews
Looks like abandonware
Delicious Jim
The app currently does not scale up to the display on my iPhone XR and is so small on the screen I can’t effectively use it. I tried the help section and what it says does not reflect the way the app works on my phone, I can’t find out what I wanted to know, and everything is so small it’s almost impossible to read. The app is not listed on the main Chessbase website and the latest version update listed in Apple’s App Store is three years ago. It seems that active development and support have ended and I would rather have not wasted my time attempting to use a broken and abandoned app.
Needs improvement — no updates!
KJ US
This app provides a database of chess games that are not annotated. The search filter is very basic. There is a chess engine that comes with the app for analyzing the games but it is very slow on my iPad and causes the app to crash often causing you to start over. The engine often doesn’t work. The back arrow essentially takes you back to to the starting point. The app wants you to save everything in the cloud and it is difficult to transfer your selected games to your hard drive via email. The playchess server is slow causing you to waste precious seconds on blitz games and lose on time. Forget about playing the videos via the app. I essentially use the app to look up games in the database but it’s better to do everything on your computer. Don’t know if this is a problem just with the app for iPad or also on other systems.
Don’t buy
clbandy
Waste of money. Bad user interface. Annoying to move thru pgns with multiple lines
Last/ Previous browsing
Chessmoso
This app doesnt remember the last game or screen that u were on before u left the app. Its annoying that u have to go back to the main menu ang browse/ type the players that u want to watch and analyze.
Good database with broken features
Tegron
It's great for looking up games and ideas for openings, however the Facebook feature of posting your games seems to be broken after first use... This would be a fantastic app if you could share your games via email or Facebook. Otherwise it's mainly to check up on games. Ability to manage pgn games is also not finished. You can't make notes or rename the pgn files to manage them. Auto naming just clutters the saved games and you can't sort it out after a while.
Wasted opportunity indeed
Hankblack
The negative reviews are correct. There is a large database which would be fine except the app seems to be constantly polling the database, which slows it down, the search functionality and the game playback are clunky and, to top it all off, the app does not seem to remember what page you were on, what your last search was, or what game you were looking at. Real amateur stuff.
(Really really) Poor programming
Juci-7560
Of course, this app should be indispensable but ChessBase apparently cannot code a decent app around their database. The search feature is clumsy and one cannot limit to a set of openings. Cannot even do iOS multitasking, if one switches to another app, the whole opening tree or search results are lost. Or, even if one goes back to the main menu and then to the opening book, it starts from scratch. And, with this update, the moves in the opening book are NOT listed in order of popularity, so the first line is c3 c6 g3 g6 Bg2 Bg7 f4... Nice ;-)
