World Chess Champion Game Collection app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 8576 ratings )

Games Education Board Educational
Developer: Sunny Globe Technology

2.99 USD

Current version: 2.1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Apr 2013
App size: 57.15 Mb

The title of World Chess Champion means "The Strongest Chess Player on Earth".

In 1886, two masters played a long chess match. Most chess historians regard the Steinitz-Zukertort match as the first official World Chess Championship, because it started a grand tradition. Starting with Steinitz, the title of World Chess Champion has been handed down through the generations from one player to another, like an Olympic torch.
In 1948, FIDE World Chess Championship Tournament crowned Mikhail Botvinnik as World Chess Champion and established a more formal system of selecting candidates for the future.

This system worked reasonably well, until 1993, PCA (Professional Chess Association) created a split title, while FIDE continued to manage a World Championship cycle. The uncomfortable situation of a split title persisted for 13 years.

The title was reunified in 2006 when FIDE Champion Veselin Topalov lost to Kramnik in Elista.

The application include all Classical World Chess Champions biography and large collection of games:
Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894) : 579 games
Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921) : 1047 games
Jose Raul Capablanca (1921-1927) : 488 games
Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935, 1937-1946) : 2151 games
Max Euwe (1935-1937) : 1081 games
Mikhail Botvinnik (1948-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963) : 817 games
Vasily Smyslov (1957-1958) : 1795 games
Mikhail Tal (1960-1961) : 2158 games
Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969) : 1670 games
Boris Spassky (1969-1972) : 1568 games
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (1972-1975) : 719 games
Anatoly Karpov (1975-1985) : 858 games
Garry Kasparov (1985-2000) : 1543 games
Vladimir Kramnik (2000-2007) : 1431 games
Viswanathan Anand (2007-2013) : 1812 games
Magnus Carlsen (2013 - ): 1759 games

Features:
* Huge game collections
* Auto play with speed adjustment, or move manually
* Export or share game PGN file
* Chess quotes by World Chess Champions
* Famous game videos on YouTube
* Play any game at any point, challenge world champions

Possess this application, you will learn Chess Opening, End games and Strategies from Strongest chess Players" in the world.

Pros and cons of World Chess Champion Game Collection app for iPhone and iPad

World Chess Champion Game Collection app good for

I downloaded it and I am a fun of cheese. I wanna be a player like a professional guy, thats my dream, however, its tough and boring for me to research masters match. God bless me that I am able to find this tiny but useful tool. Thanks for the developer, you really save my life.

I like chess. I like this good tool. Useful and friendly. Good price!

Love this app, use it every day. Countless hours of fun and learning.

This application is a great collection of games by the great champions of all time. I would suggest if you can make the chessboard the largest possible to make the best use of the iPad screen display. The introduction ad should be eliminated after the first time so that the user does not have to see it again and again.

Some bad moments

Update: Love the new features and the video is awesome. ******************************************* If youre a chess player and would like to know who all the champions were, this is a great app showing you the games that all these winners played. Ive never seen an app like this where you can watch these matches at the speed you like. When I was 12, I learned to play and Ive won almost every game and continue to play today. This is a fabulous app!

Needs to allow viewer to look at board from both perspectives.....

On ipad landscape mode, the screen is upside down... and the app sometimes crashes without a specific reason, probably because of large ram usage.

Reviewable access to 1000s of historic chess games. No in app annotations. Just pay attention and you will see world class chess. I have to guess that this creation was a labor of enthusiasm and love.

Books with this much information are encyclopedic, so the convenience factor is exceptional. Much easier than setting up a board and going through famous games move by move. However, I do not understand why the end moves are not included.

I dont understand how Emanual Lasker could die in 1941 but you show games of his up to 1951! How did he do that?

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