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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #40 - 08/28/13 at 17:08:10
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Here are some answers:
1. Once you bought a book, it is yours forever and available for all your devices that are registered with your profile - from Itune's or Google Play Cloud. You can download it many times.
2. The size of books is usually less than 1 MB except for the cases they contain a lot of pictures. The app itself may take up more MBs as it stores the files in a cache to speed up the process of opening a book. But this cache could be cleared. 
3. Rooting an Android tablet is already illegal: http://appshappens.com/rooting-android-is-now-illegal-well-heres-what-you-need-t...;
However, FC has not any particular code against rooting. Kindle is unsupported device because Amazon does not support Google Play store where the books reside. The Nook HD+ was in a similar position, but since May, Barnes and Noble have opened their customary Android OS to Google and now FC works perfectly well on their tablet. 
4. FC for Android already has an engine support. This new version will be posted for download in a couple of days.
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #39 - 08/28/13 at 13:31:32
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Is it possible to read the book on 2 different devices (phone and tablet) or you`re bound to a device with which you bought the book? 
Is it possible to re-download the book again in case it was deleted from your device?
TIA for the answers
  
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Reply #38 - 08/28/13 at 07:35:41
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I have 'Most instructive amateur games' at 1.8 MB on my Android phone.
  
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Reply #37 - 08/27/13 at 23:24:38
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On my iPad, it uses about 23 MB.  The app itself is 7.4 MB.  The books take up the remaining 16 MB.  I have downloaded the Dreev and Korneev books, as well as some of the samples, so would guess that each of the standard-sized books is somewhere between 5 and 10 MB.
  
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Reply #36 - 08/27/13 at 19:07:32
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I mean size on disk
  
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Reply #35 - 08/27/13 at 18:35:54
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As big as your screen/tablet...
  
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Reply #34 - 08/27/13 at 15:18:21
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Anyone knows what is the size of Forward Chess ebooks?
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #33 - 08/25/13 at 18:10:40
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Certainly ForwardChess is like a playable e-book. But is it also possible to convert any available chessbook into an e-book on your own with this programm? That would be a great feature.

I use neither a tablet nor a smartphone so sadly I will not be able to use this otherwise very interesting programm.

There are certainly some customers out there who are like me but I find it understandable that you prefer to make piracy as difficult as possible.
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #32 - 08/25/13 at 16:28:05
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Fllg wrote on 08/25/13 at 15:25:40:
Bibs wrote on 08/25/13 at 07:07:50:
Going digital totally. Am chopping spines off and scanning in all non-hardbacks. (ScanSnap is fast). Time to clear the house, keep the wife happy, and make everything more convenient. Win-win.


A Software able to convert written text into a playable e-book - that would be great.

Or does something like that already exist?

Btw, is there also a version of Forward Chess running on Windows?

Is not ForwardChess something like that? A playable e-book? I doubt it will be made for Windows - only due to security reasons.
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #31 - 08/25/13 at 15:25:40
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Bibs wrote on 08/25/13 at 07:07:50:
Going digital totally. Am chopping spines off and scanning in all non-hardbacks. (ScanSnap is fast). Time to clear the house, keep the wife happy, and make everything more convenient. Win-win.


A Software able to convert written text into a playable e-book - that would be great.

Or does something like that already exist?

Btw, is there also a version of Forward Chess running on Windows?
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #30 - 08/25/13 at 07:07:50
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fling wrote on 08/25/13 at 04:34:27:
It works fine on my Nexus 7. Still waiting for Quality Chess books, though...


Me too, look forward to that. Come on QC, do catch up...!
Going digital totally. Am chopping spines off and scanning in all non-hardbacks. (ScanSnap is fast). Time to clear the house, keep the wife happy, and make everything more convenient. Win-win.
  
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Reply #29 - 08/25/13 at 04:34:27
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It works fine on my Nexus 7. Still waiting for Quality Chess books, though...
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #28 - 08/24/13 at 15:23:38
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Anyone get Forward Chess to work on an Android tablet?  I have a Kindle Fire HD (rooted).  I installed Forward chess, but the moment I try launching it I get the error mesage, "Forward Chess has stopped working."  The app closes and that's that.   

I've tried restarting, uninstalling and reinstalling, etc.  It happens every time.
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #27 - 08/18/13 at 14:48:46
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Semkov wrote on 08/17/13 at 13:50:56:
I think that you should be able to download it on the Samsung - manually. You install the app and download the book.

The next version will have an engine added.


It worked after an hour wait or so.

Engine might be good to have, as would a bookmarking and note function.
  
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Re: Forward Chess for Ipad
Reply #26 - 08/17/13 at 13:50:56
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I think that you should be able to download it on the Samsung - manually. You install the app and download the book.

The next version will have an engine added.
  
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