My preference is for THE e+ chess app.

@andres I appreciate that you check out this forum. But don't take the criticism too hard.
Your product has good sides, one of them is that you can play through your own moves when going through a variation. 

One gripe with smartchess is that when you play through some moves the annotation  disappears. This makes the game hard to follow.
Another point which can be better is that you have to go through a lot of pages when going through a game. Combined with the point above is that you miss the big picture of the game.

What I personally would like to see is an app which is a mix between your smartchessapp and the everymanchessviewer. The everymanchessviewer has as a pro that you can see the entire game with annotations.
The e+app also has this possibility of seeing the whole game or text.
You cannot go through a variation if you want, but I don't find that too bothersome.

The ipad chess apps out there are still not perfect.
I would just like to see an app which 
1.can read pgn with annotations and variations.
2. Allows you to add variations and annotations and save this in a file on your ipad.

If these two can be implemented in an app I think you will have a simple winner.

Hi Andres, 
I understand that you are defensive of your product, but I can't revise my opinion for that reason alone. 
The e+chess app is simply far better in my own opinion - yes, you can enter 'what if' moves, but no, you can't flip the board, something I'd like to see, for sure.   
I simply prefer the way it handles variations, which is similar to the Everyman app - both of these apps work for me, but as I said before, I do hope your app does well and is a success, but personally I much prefer these others and will pay their prices for the functionality they offer me. 
Kind regards,
Slates

Yeah e+ is a nice app.  Chess tiger from my side not so good,  but if a new iPad version is coming that might be quite cool

Late for work, so just time for a quick couple of mentions, prompted by your post  - the Chess Tiger app is pretty good for entering variations, as well as being a lot of fun to play as an engine in its own right and although expensive and iPhone native right now is apparently due out in universal iPad enhanced form shortly.....
Also, I found an app called e+chess recently which is superb for playing through chess books on the iPad, it's vastly superior, in my opinion, to Smartchess, which failed to live up to its promise.   
It comes with Capablanca book free and has options to buy other titles, first one I got was Beim's strategy book, I believe Silman's endgame and Reassess 4 are on their way to the app too. 

aidin wrote on 09/09/11 at 19:39:02:


Does anyoneknow if Hiarcs supports adding variations yourself and saving that? I have just got my new iPad and as of yet i am not overly impressed by the chess apps available. 

The one on my android phone worked better (scid and stockfish. Stockfish on android actually allowes you to enter variations. The stockfish on the iPad does not )

Maybe it's just economics; more demand for Pocket Fritz as it's more difficult to smuggle your iPad into the toilet surreptitiously 

Blunderer wrote on 09/21/11 at 07:18:30:


I agree, this is pretty much what I would need as well, BUT:

It is hard to convert CBH-files to PGN entirely, that is why e.g. Everyman produces both files.

If you could show CB-videos, you probably could show CBH-files as well, right?

I still can't believe Chessbase doesn't spend any resources on this.

people are willing to pay extra money for iPads compared to normal tablets, but people are unwilling to pay a single dime for chess software, therefore noone really puts effort in developing good chess software ...
which results in no good chess software being available ... the only thing you can do is to hope for an idealist out there who does this job for free ...