New In Chess Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 24 reviews. Read all reviews for New In Chess for iPhone.
New In Chess is free iOS app published by Interchess B.V.
Easy access to the great content of NIC
BerndFlix
iPad version is a little more convenient to view, but the iPhone version is great too.
Convenient and easy to use
supersupermariox2
This app makes your chess time very productive, fun and you can access it everywhere you go. I have been subscribed for more than ten years to the hard copy magazine but this digital version makes it more convenient
Lots of good potential ruined by poor execution
Bald-Idiot
I've postponed this review for over a year, hoping NiC would iron out enough bugs to allow me to give their app more than a single star, but to no avail. The great benefit of reading a chess magazine on an iPad should be the ease of enjoying the games themselves, but this is the glaring shortcoming of the New in Chess app: the game viewer is one of the poorest on the iPad. If you enlarge the board, all the game annotations disappear. It's not for lack of space; half the screen is simply blank. If you wonder what an engine reveals about a position, you'll get no help here, as NiC hasn't deigned to provide one. Even worse, games are often entered incorrectly, so they become impossible to follow in the viewer. (By "often" I do not mean a majority of the games, but I do mean enough games that I'm no longer surprised when I reach one.) The apps for each of the other chess publishers are great. Many of the apps put out by independent programmers are great. New in Chess has really done a shameful job on this one.