iOs Chess App

[wanderer]

Anyone know a good chess app for iOs? I'm looking for something I can use to play games with my father across the ether.

[littleidiot]

'Chess is a purely deterministic game and thus has no bearing on real life' - Player Of Games, Iain Banks.

BOOM!

Call me Irish, this is what you get.

To answer your question, I don't know. Sorry.

[wanderer]

I'm sure I'm owed that unhelpfulness for past slights.

There’s a free Chess.com app that looks like it might do nicely.

[Evilyn]

Video game chess gives me hives just thinking about it.

From my C64 days, it was one of few "games" allowed by my dad during those dark early years (Zork slide past his radar, text was okay). We had it on cassette (which sounds extra insane now) and the C64 would take at least 25 minutes to make a single move, and another 25 to then process your move.

Gah, I'm about as helpful as LI now. Look what chess has done to me.

[dorje]

Shredder is quite good. It's the only one I play anymore.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shredder ... 32437?mt=8

There's a separate iPad HD version as well. Both are eight bucks.

Stockfish is also supposed to be good.

[wanderer]

Shredder is quite good. It's the only one I play anymore.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shredder ... 32437?mt=8

Thanks for the recommend. I couldn't tell from the page—can I play against another user who has the app mobily?

Evilyn, I've never been good at playing computer chess, or beating my father in chess. I’m hoping to make a change.

Cassette tapes, egads. I remember using those for computer lab projects in grade school.

[dorje]

Shredder is quite good. It's the only one I play anymore.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shredder ... 32437?mt=8

Thanks for the recommend. I couldn't tell from the page—can I play against another user who has the app mobily?

Evilyn, I've never been good at playing computer chess, or beating my father in chess. I’m hoping to make a change.

Cassette tapes, egads. I remember using those for computer lab projects in grade school.

Chess with friends uses gamecenter. If any of the others have that sort of remote functionality, I don't know.

I, too, went through a chess phase last year, but my time is not my own. 'How to Beat Your Dad at Chess' is a good way to learn. As are the tutorials in the Chessmaster Grandmaster edition for PC.

[Evilyn]

'How to Beat Your Dad at Chess' is a good way to learn.

So, chess is the game of daddy-issues! Suspicions confirmed, head esplodes.

[littleidiot]

Evilyn : 25 minutes? I call shenanigans! I had a ZX-Spectrum and chess didn't take that long and the Spectrum was less powerful. 25 minutes to load the program yes, but a single move. I think that trip to see Alien at 4(was it 4?) has warped your memories of childhood.

[Evilyn]

Evilyn : 25 minutes? I call shenanigans! I had a ZX-Spectrum and chess didn't take that long and the Spectrum was less powerful. 25 minutes to load the program yes, but a single move. I think that trip to see Alien at 4(was it 4?) has warped your memories of childhood.

Yes, it was 4! And yes, it was decades for a cassette of computer chess on a C64 in 198something to make a move. Oh, accessing the pain all over again.