Imho, the Android devices are not quite fit for handling complex chess applications as Chessbase and the programmers are aware of that. Hence the disregard...

fling wrote on 09/16/14 at 07:58:58:


You are not the only one who is quite frustrated and annoyed by this. I am puzzled by why Chessbase does this, surely it must be even a worse public relations disaster to do such an incredibly "we don't really care"-job than to simply not have an android-app. Or did they just do it, because ICC has a decent android app? In fact, how hard can it be? Okay, probably not trivial, but if they could only come up with some sensible way to deal with the occasional short disconnect, their playchess app would be sort of okayish, but instead they seem to not care.

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Also, ChessBase for Android neglects to inform the user about which color is on-turn, when viewing a database that contains FEN positions (which do encode for the color on-turn) where the positions are not accompanied by any moves. The color on-turn seems like important information for modern chess software to not bother showing.

And when I advance one move while replaying a game that is in my database, ChessBase for Android *instantly* replaces the captured piece, so that sometimes I have to move back and forth once to see the type of piece taken. That is not a human friendly design.

Am I being unreasonable expecting modern chess software to display these types of very basic information?
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