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The Chess Glossary: Positions, Problems, Jargon app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 1264 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Colin McDonnell
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 29 Jun 2017
App size: 4.89 Mb

The Chess Glossary: Positions, Problems, Jargon is a 3-in-1 app for anyone who wants to learn everything about chess. You can take quizzes, study flashcards, and look up facts, all in a single app.

The app contains information about over 680 term. The app contains detailed definitions for all of them. Also, its easy to view the Wikipedia page for a given terms (if it exists) directly, from within the app. Heres some of the terms you can learn with this app:
• bishop pair
• line
• closed game (or Closed Game)
• chop wood
• flank opening
• perpetual check
• bishop
• opening book
• Plachutta
• castling
• Portable Game Notation (PGN)
• home rank
• aspiration search
• pseudo-legal
• International Arbiter
• opposition
• queen pawn (or queens pawn)
• mate
• underpromotion
• twin
• aristocrat
• bishops on opposite colors (or bishops of opposite colors)
• central pawn
• interference
• check

Start by learning exactly what you want in Flashcard Mode. The app contains 680 flashcards, but you can filter them however you want. Maybe youre only interested in V or F? Its easy to apply filters to learn exactly what you want.

Next you can test your knowledge in Quiz Mode. The app tracks your progress over time, so you can see exactly how much youve learned.

Finally, the app contains an extensive database available in Reference Mode. Now you can look up whatever you want, whenever you want, no internet connection required. The app also contains a powerful search function, so you can jump right to the information youre looking for.