航讯中国象棋 - 丰富的棋谱视频残局书籍资‪源‬ ٤+

I was looking for a different app for Chinese chess as each app shows you different ways of playing. I like how you can swipe to the left to undo the last move. I appreciate the person or people who created this app.

This is more or less my introduction to 象棋 and I’m not sure I could’ve had much better apart from a person with a board who was really into it and a good teacher. The game flows well, looks good, and the fact that it allows me to save and annotate games as well as play so many practice endgames…it’s brilliant. Clearly a lot of love was put into this. My only notes:

1. It’s a shame so much of the documentation is only in Chinese. I do understand how difficult doing so much translation correctly would be, but I’d love honestly to pore through all of that literature.

2. For some reason, it’s not accepting when I beat the endgame scenarios and unlocking the next ones. This seems like a fairly crippling bug.

3. The option to annotate saved games is amazing, but it’s annoying that (as far as I can tell) I can’t go back and add or change annotations once it’s saved.

4.I finally beat the computer on easy—very satisfying! That said, it might be worthwhile to have a setting even easier, although the challenge is worth the reward and impetus to think.

5. More variety of piece designs, especially graphic/shaped ones, might be nice.

6. A way to disable the ads would be worth paying a bit for.

Many games don’t allow you to save, but this one does. Also allows hints which weirdly many apps don’t have. Allows you to play first or not which again many apps weirdly don’t have. Doesn’t allow to switch colors though which is weird but ok. Best chess app out there. Just wish can support landscape view.

Edit: please offer a paid version of this app to remove the ads. It is super annoying to resign and then a huge banner comes up which blocks you from closing the game and restarting. I’m willing to pay for this!