iPhone Chess 1.3 released
A new version of the chess application is available. It now features sound, castle and piece promotion.
Please report problems/bugs. Next release will be in the new year featuring a larger board and better level handling.
Have fun!
We would like to thank everybody for the suggestions, comments, testing and donations!
iPhone Chess now handles En-Passent properly, please test and report.
once king leaves back row, game prompts for a piece upgrade on return to back row. This results in an illegal move making it impossible for king to e we return to back row
BUG: Game tries to promote pieces in odd situations, such as when you move your king up a space and then back down.
it’s fixed (we hope)
HELP!
I just downloaded chess 1.2 on to my iphone. I played my first game and got beaten and an alert appeared saying “0-1 {computer wins as black}”. however, the application has locked my phone up completely - the only feedback is a spinning circle with the following text “Player black thinking”.
I am unable to shut the phone down using the power button.
Any suggestions?
Rob
Could you make the board bigger? It’s still quite challenging to get the right square with these fingers of mine.
great game, works great, and i see no major flaws except that there is no human vs human, only human vs CPU. I think that human vs human mode would be a great addition to this game. Overall great game. :)
the save button and save on exit don’t work on my itouch iPod 1.1.2
typing on iPod. Please! Make a human vs human option. Just make it possible to remove the computer option! Maybe increase the board size aswell? Thanks for your work its the best chessgame out there!
Hiya,
Would you be able to do a version of Go for the iphone, using GNU Go as the engine? That would rock!
Len.
Hi people, great game, been beaten enough already. Minor issue: when you receive a phone call, the application is suspended and comes back alright but with a new game position.. And of course I was winning when that happened!
keep it up - frantic
When I used the en passant rule it worked but the piece remained on the board and computer moved right through it, putting me in a quick defeat. Great work overall, this phone is hard to type on and so is your board so those would be the best fixes I think. Hope this helps, 2 player would be awesome to see.
@tom
That’s a good one, we will fix the ‘en passent’ move quickly! Thanks for reporting.
i’ll tell you what, this is a huge improvement and a great program. i’ll be donating shortly. i do however have a few suggestions:
on the settings page, allow the player to select black or white simply, and have the board switch back and forth based on that choice.
allow for different types of annotation, specifically algebraic. (eg. e4, Nf6, Bb4, etc) also hand in hand with this is perhaps having a pop-up bar (brought up with a tap on the very bottom?) that displays a list of the games’ moves, so a player could select one to review the position at the time. also the ability to e-mail the notation of the game would be awesome. (ties into next suggestion)
and finally, possibly the most complex thing, it would be awesome if the program was able to load, view, edit and save .pgn files so that players could load them onto iphone/ipod via ftp and then load them up in Chess and view them.
thanks for the excellent product guys. keep up the good work!
bk
I found many flaws with your chess app.
1. Cannot switch the king with rook position. Computer can, but I can’t.
2. If my King is threatened, it will not let me jump the threat with my King even though it is in no danger after that.
3. Would not let me jump the computers bishop with my own bishop.
3. Would not let me jump the computers queen with my own queen.
4. Anytime I trap one of the computers main pieces, it will not let me jump them.
Hopefully you can fix these issues.
Gary, are you sure you are using the 1.3 version? These bugs sound like 1.2 or before ..
If so, could you please send a game that shows the problem?
To send a game do the following:
- when you encounter something strang, choose Undo twice, choose Save and send the file /Applications/iChess.app/games to us. This file contains the game saved.
Using 1.3 and cannot castle the computer can. Also when I get a pawn to the other side it does offer a promotion but never actually gives me the piece I choose no matter what I pick
every game I play, I can’t finish because it randomly says illegal move for several pieces. I know how to play chess so either the programming is wrong or there are still several bugs. I appreciate your work, but the game just doesnt work.
The next version will have an option to send the game to us if it doesn’t work as we cannot reproduce these problems.
@meghan promotion is always offered when a pawn reaches the other side but if it’s an illegal move your piece will not promote, this is normal.
Update 1.4 is available in the iphone.robota.nl repository.
http://forum.robota.nl/35/iphone-chess-update-to-version-14.html
http://www.robota.nl/products/iPhone%20Chess.html
Let us know if you still have problems, a mail function for the game has been implemented so please mail me the situation, sure we will fix it.
I do not know how or am incorrectly trying to castle. How do I?