ePlusChess Books App Reviews

This is my favourite ebook application for studying chess with "ChessDB" . Left page you have the text, right the animated chess diagrams illustrating the purpose (you can go backward forward into variations). So for those you never read any chess book because of having to know 64 squares by heart this is going to make it easy to improve. This application comes with "Chess Fundamentals" from Rahul Capablanca for free , which is already a good reason to get it , as you can buy the real book for 20€ in any chess books shop... I bought Silmams "Comprehensive Chess Endings" on my iPad , and really enjoy it, I had the real book actually, but it was too much work to visualise the examples before this application came out... I really think that this way of reading is the future of chess literature . I just hope more books are going to get released on this, as for now the choice is a little poor... PS. I have a suggestion, why not putting the chess variations into a different colour than the main line (in red for example, for lines and pièces). Also, for those who have an iPad and an iPhone, its possible to get a book you have bought on your two machines without any extra paying with the option share your downloads I have a complain to do about your progression in a book, that is lost very often, you have to find again which page in the book you were! Is it done on purpose ? Possible as you find yourself on the Bookstore (you only need a click to buy a book , at 14€!, so be carefull) every time. No global view of your position in the book is given .

We now need more titles in the bookstore!

Awesome app. All it really needs is a larger selection of books (which will come in time Im sure), and the ability to rotate the board (which will also likely come). Just check that the library of offered books has something that interests you. If it does, this app gets a strong recommend!

I recently bought Improve Your Chess Tactics via this App and Im pretty happy with this purchase. In old days I had to work with a book and a chessboard (because i believe just visualising a combination is not enough, you need to see pieces moving to bolster your tactical memory). With the help of this App I dont need a chessbook, a piece of paper to record the solutions and a chessboard to check how well Ive done. Id like more tactical exercise workbooks, because I think its one of the most useful ways to use this App. And also integration with a chess engine will be an excellent addition.

It is completely practical in its approach to Chess study. Well done!

Please add feature to bookmark pages. Sometimes if you close out completely it sends you to the beginning of a chapter. Ive been inserting notes in the text to serve as a bookmark

Ive been waiting for this app long before I knew for sure it existed yet. Makes chess books fun to read, and much easier to follow, I wish to never have to read a chess book without it. Thanks for the app.

I first heard about this app afew weeks ago and watched for it everyday! Its here and its everything I hoped it would be. This really streamlines the learning process and is the next best thing to live lessons.In the near future many books will be available and I believe its possible to advance very quickly in your chess with this one app alone! Its very easy to use and once you try it you wont want to study any other way! I give it 5 stars as no other instruction app comes close.

An incredible app! Great job, thank you so much for this product!!!! Im now looking forward to my commute in and out of NYC on the bus everyday as I feel like the time will be VERY well spent studying and learning more about the game I love!!!! Id love to know what books are coming? Ive already purchased 4 of the available books and wonder what might be available next. . . . Thanks again for what Im sure will be become one of my very favorite apps!!!! -Ted

Just watch the video on Showyou, rush to app store downloaded it cant believe what I have with me for free? Is awesome!! The chess fundamentals is beautiful! Hope to see more books!!

Well, I had heard that this was coming but that was a few months ago... I must say, it was well worth the wait! Simply elegant and seamless!

THIS is what the iPad is for: An interactive chess book. Comes with one free book and the option to buy others. Must have taken a lot of work to turn these books into interactive books. Hope they can get the rights to do some of the more popular books. My only gripe (and its the same gripe with a lot of apps) is that I wish it had a thorough user manual built into the app. Its fairly intuitive, but still...

Brilliant app! Book on the left, board on the right. Tap any move in the text, and the board sets automatically to that position. Move pieces to analyze on the right, tap the left to reset and keep reading. Fits the iPad perfectly. No more pieces rolling on the floor, or needing two boards to follow the text. Very nicely done.

Excellent framework for chess instruction. Now they just need content to complete the puzzle. I look forward to all of Valeri Beims works as well as Silmans Endgame Course and How To Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition. I am quite sure I will snap those up the day they are released.

Just watch the video on Showyou, rush to app store downloaded it cant believe what I have with me for free? Is awesome!! The chess fundamentals is beautiful! Hope to see more books!! The books are truly awesome!!!

This is a great app for studying chess games, strategies, tactics, openings, and endgames! Half of your screen displays the book and the other half displays an interactive chess board. The chess boards follows the books text automatically or you can control the pieces yourself. This app will surely become the "app of choice" for those who are serious about chess. As a fairly new app, there are less than a dozen chess ebooks available but more are sure to follow.

This app is awesome. Very easy to study chess strategies, games, etc. I have nothing negative to say about it.

This App lets you read through a chess book in 1/4 of the time by eliminating the time consuming step of setting up (and resetting for variations) the chessboard by hand. The board is there, the buttons for scrolling through are there, the variations are there for you. It makes a 500+ page book like Silmans Complete Endgame something you can read on the plane or in bed etc. on your iPad without a physical chessboard or a computer nearby. I love chessbooks. I dread the manual labor involved in typing the moves into Fritz or setting up my board. It breaks up the flow of the text. It takes too long. Problem solved! I preferr this interface to the other iPad chess viewer with the Everyman Press books. That publisher should cross-market their books through this reader. Its just better, in my opinion. Eagerly awaiting more books, like Reassess Your Chess: 4th Edition! Jhbchess

In one word, Awesome. This app really taught me how to play chess. This app gets rid if the difficulty of having to switch between the chess book, and the chess game by combining them into one.

I have always hated chess books until now. I am a better chess player in a few short hours and look forward to the next lesson, that is a first. It is cliche but this app makes learning chess fun. Hopefully chess authors see the leveraging opportunity to create more powerful teaching materials.