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Chess Lab 4+
For Serious Chess Players!!
Giordano Vicoli
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Make the right move. Get Chess Lab! Does what it promises and much more than you imagine!
Chess Lab is the macOS version of the Chess Studio application for iOS/iPadOS.
Chess Lab is the first and only application to manage Chess Databases and Games in PGN format in a complete and efficient way.
Chess Studio Lab allows you to:
• Read database and games in PGN format (also with extended notation of moves).
• Create, delete and modify folders and databases.
• View games with annotations and textual comments and keep track of the displayed games.
• Visualize moves and variants in compact mode or indented mode.
• Modify existing games with move annotation and textual comments.
• Insert new games and positions.
• Insert, replay and analyze games in Chess 960 mode.
• Insert moves with annotations and textual comments.
• Insert variation, subvariations etc.
• Insert and visualize graphical annotation (colored arrows and highlighted squares).
• Send games by email.
• Share Databases and Games through Airdrop.
• Download chess database from internet.
• Download chess database directly from PGN Mentor site.
• Import games, database and Opening Books from other applications.
• Merge two or more databases.
• Copy/Paste games and positions.
• Analyze games with Stockfish 16.1 Engine with the support of the Neural Networks (up to 5 lines of analysis simultaneously) and see the results also through the Engine Evaluation Bar.
• See graphic visualization of moves suggested by Stockfish 16.1 engine.
• See Win-Draw-Loss (WDL) probabilities during engine analysis.
• Replay games automatically.
• Visualize Pawn structure.
• Manage Variations and sub-variatons: delete and promote variations.
• Read the weekly Magazine The New In Chess (TWIC) and download the games..
• Three different modes for moving pieces.
• Analyze endgames with Endgame Tablebases.
• Analyze and study Chess Openings in the Chess Openings Section.
• Create and manage Opening Books in Polyglot format.
• Import and manage ChessBase Opening Books (ctg format).
• Automatically classify a database according to ECO code.
• Replay, enter and analyze Chess 960 games (Fischer Random Chess).
• Play against the engine both in standard mode and in Chess 960 mode.
• Play online through the LiChess platform
• Train by solving Puzzles
Other features and technical details:
• Modify the board size tapping on the board or through the Settings menu.
• Professional chess fonts and figurines for moves notation and annotation.
• Preview of the game in the board tapping the Info button.
• Quick search feature.
• Advanced search feature.
• Complete management of Null Moves with Tutorial.
• Visualization of ECO code and Opening during game replay or game insertion.
• Visualization of Book Openings during game replay or game insertion.
• Function to move up within variants and subvariants.
• Online manual frequently updated.
• Sharing of databases across devices via iCloud Drive.
• Sound option.
• VoiceOver/Accessibility support.
• Help section contains videos to show the main features of Chess Studio.
• Direct contact via email with the developer to report problems, ask for explanation and suggestions (very quick answer!).
• Languages: Italian, English, Spanish and German.
These are the main features.
The application is continuously updated with new features and improvements.
No registration!
No advertising!
No sharing of personal data!
What’s New
Version 4.3.1
- IN THIS RELEASE (4.3.1)
• Fixed an error that caused abnormal behavior of the application during engine analysis.
• Improvements in handling very large databases.
• Minor bug fixes, general improvements and optimizations.
- MAIN FEATURES INTRODUCED IN THE LATEST RELEASES
• A new training feature has been added: the user can load a game from a database and decide whether to move for White or Black without seeing the moves to evaluate his skills. At the end a report will be produced that traces the entire training session. It is possible to use this functionality either by choosing the game to train with or by letting the application decide the game in random mode. To use this functionality, some settings are possible via an appropriate interface. There are various ways to access this functionality, for example from the menu at the top center of the chessboard screen. In future versions of the application this training mode will be expanded and enhanced.
• Chess Studio can now read databases in ChessBase format. It can import cbh, cbp, cbt, cbg, cba, cbs and cbc formats, thus it is able to interpret not only the moves of a game but also the variations and comments.
• The new version of the Stockfish 16.1 engine has been integrated with the support of Neural Networks (NNUE). The neural network architecture has undergone two updates and is currently in its 8th version. This release marks the removal of the traditional handcrafted evaluation and the transition to fully neural network-based approach. Dual NNUE: For the first time, Stockfish includes a secondary neural network, used to quickly evaluate positions that are easily decided.
• A new section dedicated to training has been added. At the moment it is possible to solve a series of puzzles taken from games played mainly online. These are puzzles suitable for all players. There are currently 10,000 puzzles available but they will be continuously updated. Other types of puzzles of increasing difficulty will be included in the future.
• New feature: Search for games by position. This new feature is found in the main menu under the "PGN Tools" section. It allows you to search for games in a database starting from a given position. The position can be set both with normal pieces but also with different symbols that have different meanings. In this way it will be possible to search, for example, all the games that have a typical pawn structure regardless of the position of the other pieces.
• Management of very large databases.
• Automatic insertion of engine analysis into games. To enter the analysis, simply touch the engine analysis line. To use this feature you need to activate it in the application settings.
• The new function "Search games by material" has been added, through which it is possible to search for games in a database according to the material present on the chessboard. This new functionality is accessed from the main menu of the application.
• New feature that allows you to delete tags in a database. This functionality is accessed from the list of possible operations on a database.
• In the Chess Board screen, you can customize the colors of the top bar, bottom bar, buttons and background. The customization is done in the Settings section. In the opening section is the new functionality to explore the Lichess Master Opening Tree. It is now possible to activate the speech synthesizer to announce the moves made both when entering and when viewing a game.
• From the opening section of a database it is possible to save the games relating to a single ECO code or to a single opening variant in a new database. To do this, just swipe left on the opening variant you want to save and follow the directions.
• For those users who need explanations on the application it is possible to organize a Skype session. Contact me via email at chess.studio.app@gmail.com
App Privacy
The developer, Giordano Vicoli, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Giordano Vicoli
- Size
- 118 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 Giordano Vicoli
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlock Chess Lab 2,99 €