I knew about the Reddit bot for a long time, but I didn’t know they had an app released for over 4 years now. And I discovered this when my buddy used it to more or less prank me. I figured he would have used chess helper instead, but this is a bigger win overall. It’s been a great tool to discover lines not otherwise written in puzzle books. Don’t cheat kids. Or you could end up pulling a Hans Niemann, getting your entire OTB tournament history scoured for evidence of cheating, and throwing your career down the tubes. Not that anyone here is likely to be a chess prodigy 😂

My one complaint is the ebook reader, which in it of itself is not the problem. I personally have a vendetta against ebooks and much prefer hard copies, while you can manually photograph all of the pictures, it would be nice if owning a hard copy could be used to “unlock” the ebook. This way the diagrams or positions would almost be cued up. I don’t analyze every position just the ones that are of particular interest. So the lack of this feature is quite minor in my opinion, hence my 5 stars. Overall great app and very convenient.

I’m currently going through “the encyclopedia of chess combinations” book which is a book with a few thousand puzzles. The puzzles are great, but the answers don’t give every single line (which is understandable)This app completely resolved this problem. If I can’t figure out why my variation didn’t work, I take a picture and get the answer within seconds. I don’t write many reviews, but this one absolutely needs one.

This app has everything I’d put in a chess app. Screenshot to PGN, directly analyze in the app, choice between on-device or in-cloud analysis, and easy export to other apps (Chess com or Lichess). Only thing I’d add is ability to play the analyzed position against an AI with artificial “ELO” ratings, with the ability to manually override a computer move. Although this is a novel capability not offered elsewhere yet!