Analyse every game. Learn from both.
Choose a master from chess history and play a full game against them on your phone. Afterwards, tap Analyze game: every move is graded, the stronger lines are shown, and both sides get an estimated playing strength. The analysis runs on your phone, with no account and no daily limit.
Android 8.0 or newer, on a 64-bit device · App in English
Morphy, Steinitz and McDonnell are included. 46 more as in-app purchases.
Each move graded, your strength estimated. No limit, no subscription, no account.
11 chapters, 52 lessons and 82 exercises on a real board.
Every exercise ends with a short explanation.
Sparring: 8 levels from 300 to 1350, from your first game to serious player.
Rate Yourself: find the moves of 40 historic games in 7 schools.
Comments, side lines and arrows right on the board.
5 piece sets, 5 board colours. Works offline, no ads.
Screenshots of the app (version 1.1).
Paul Morphy, Wilhelm Steinitz and Alexander McDonnell are included. 46 more historical masters, from Lasker and Capablanca to Tal, Fischer and Karpov, are in the Masters shop, each a one-time in-app purchase with portrait and biography.
Each personality is built from analysis of the master's own games and is designed to reproduce that master's characteristic choices and playing preferences. A purchased master is available to download; once downloaded, it plays offline. Restore purchases brings your masters back on a new phone.
Paul Morphyincluded
Wilhelm Steinitzincluded
Alexander McDonnellincluded
Mikhail Tal
Anatoly Karpov
Bobby Fischer
José Raúl Capablanca
Vasily Smyslov
Siegbert Tarrasch
Joseph Blackburne
Johannes Zukertort
Louis-Charles de La Bourdonnais
Aron Nimzowitsch
Adolf Anderssen
Richard Réti
Mikhail Botvinnik
Akiba Rubinstein
Mikhail Chigorin
Jan Timman
Emanuel Lasker
Max Euwe
David Bronstein
Efim Bogoljubow
Vera Menchik
Sonja Graf
Marion Heintze
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Rudolf Spielmann
Leonid Stein
Lev Polugaevsky
Paul Keres
Boris Spassky
Alexander Alekhine
Tigran Petrosian
Edgard Colle
Robert Hübner
Viktor Korchnoi
Ljubomir Ljubojević
Svetozar Gligorić
Vlastimil Hort
Alexey Sokolsky
Howard Staunton
Amos Burn
Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Michael Basman
Miguel Najdorf
Anthony Miles
Frank Marshall
Albin PlaninecHighlighted: included in the app. All others are in the app's Masters shop.
In the app, each master is a ChessGate personality: a data pack that plays on the app's built-in engine, only inside ChessGate for Android. For Windows there are the ChessGate Personality Engines: portable UCI engines that run in any chess program and with the CZUBATRONIC 2400 console, a separate product.
Analyse every game you finish, as often as you like: no subscription, no account, no daily limit. ChessGate grades every move (Best, Intriguing, Shaky, Fumble, Bad or Very Bad) with what it cost and the stronger line. It assesses your opening, middlegame and endgame separately and gives both sides an estimated playing strength with a title.
Eight levels on one dial, from Serious Player through Club Player to Grandmaster. Your opponent pauses to think before it moves, so a game feels like a game rather than a machine firing back.
Sparring has eight rungs, from 300 to 1350, each measured in more than 8,000 test games. It goes wrong the way people do, a piece left hanging, a capture not answered, so a brand-new player can win.
Open a PGN file and step through it. An annotated game shows its comments, symbols and side lines in a large text panel under the board. Tap any move, side lines included, and the arrows and marked squares from the file appear on the board.
Play the moves of 40 historic games in seven schools and see your rating for each school. Test methodology and data by SpaciousMind (Nick Milicev), used with permission.
Chess from Zero: eleven chapters, 52 lesson pages and 82 exercises, from files and ranks through piece values, opening principles, mating patterns, forks, pins, defence and endgames to a small repertoire and a chapter on queen's pawn openings. Every exercise explains itself, and your progress is kept.
ChessGate has no account and no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. Your games, settings and course progress stay on your phone. Purchases and downloads of masters run through the Google Play app on your device.
The app is free on Google Play, with Morphy, Steinitz and McDonnell as opponents. The 46 other masters are one-time in-app purchases; Google Play shows the price in your currency before you buy. No subscription.
Only to download the app and a purchased master. After that, games, analysis and lessons work offline.
English.
Sign in to Google Play with the same Google account and tap Restore purchases in the app. Your purchased masters are then available to download again.
ChessGate is available for Android only at the moment.
No. The app's masters are data packs for ChessGate on Android. For Windows, the ChessGate Personality Engines are a separate product.
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