A Thoughtful Assessment – Chessimo HD Review

Overall this is a very good chess training app. The amount of material (once paid for) is quite large and generally very impressive. A few specific items to note: - Most significantly, you currently cannot sync this app between devices. To access the full app on more than one device requires that you purchase all the material more than once. The developer told me via email about a year ago that they were working on this feature, but the developer seems to have gone silent since. This app has not been updated in some time (as of January 2015). - On a tablet, this app only works in landscape mode. On a phone, it works only in portrait. This is a bit annoying. - The ability to stop a puzzle and actually play the position against "Krafty" (the engine) is an excellent feature, but crashes all too often. - Especially as regards tactics, this app focuses on pattern recognition and so the amount of material here is very large. I view this as positive - good value for the money. (To unlock everything is, as I recall, around 10 USD.) Overall still an excellent app. By far the biggest issue is the device syncing - if they could fix that, this would be an easy five-star rating.
Review by wesleyheath on Chessimo HD.