Chess PGN Master

Chess PGN Master Free Game

Rated 4.32/5 (1,120) —  Free Android application by Gerhard Kalab

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About Chess PGN Master

This is the trial version of Chess PGN Master, a learning and study tool for chess amateurs and professionals alike. In order to improve in chess, apart from playing lots of games, it is essential to

* study chess games from masters and to try to understand why the moves were played
* study endgame positions
* gain a basic knowledge of the openings you play

Chess PGN Master helps you with these tasks by making it easy to

* review chess games
* enter your own games and blunder check them
* analyze games with a strong chess engine
* play positions against a chess engine

and it can do a lot more!

The trial version allows you to view:

- the first 20 games of a PGN file
- the first 5 games of a live PGN file

Please buy the pro key to remove restrictions and to enable edit mode:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalab.pgnviewerpro

Features:
* Easy navigation (tap on left or right side of the board to move the pieces)
* Analyze games with the integrated analysis engine (output limited to one move in trial version) - start with menu - Analyisis start/stop
* Add more UCI chess engines for analysis (e.g. use the engines distributed with Chessbase)
* Autoplay (automatically move the pieces, time between moves can be set in settings)
* Live update of games (a PGN file from the web which is updated will automatically be reloaded once a minute)
* Dropbox support (load PGN files from your Dropbox)
* includes a PGN file with 6 annotated games from "Chess Fundamentals" by former world champion José Raúl Capablanca
* Edit mode (PRO only): try out analyzed lines, edit annotations and variations
* Blunder check
* Supports many languages (e.g. Russian, Chinese) in annotations (see Preferences - Set encoding)
* Share games with other programs (Chess programs, Google+, ...), share from Chessbase Online
* Can read Scid database files if "Scid on the go" is installed
* Automatically convert ChessBase databases to PGN if "CBH to PGN" is installed
* Support for chess engines in open exchange format like Komodo or Texel

Chess960 is NOT supported.

IF YOU FIND A PGN FILE THIS PROGRAM CANNOT LOAD PLEASE CONTACT ME.

How to Download / Install

Download and install Chess PGN Master version Varies with device on your Android device!
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Android package: com.kalab.pgnviewer, download Chess PGN Master.apk

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Game History & Updates

What's Changed
* update Dropbox API to latest version
Version update Chess PGN Master was updated to version 1.93
More downloads  Chess PGN Master reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update Chess PGN Master was updated to version 1.90
Version update Chess PGN Master was updated to version 1.85

What are users saying about Chess PGN Master

D70%
by D####:

The app looks promising but free version should have allowed to follow more games, to get a better hang of the app. I would like to upgrade to pro but not sure how it works.. 1. Will it work on single phone or multiple phones.? 2. What if I need to buy a new phone, will I have to buy license again? 3. Is the purchase valid for lifetime or have to pay again after future app. feature updates?

D70%
by D####:

Very nice, except for a bug in displaying annotations, where sometimes an annotation for White's move doesn't get displayed until after Black's move.

D70%
by D####:

When scrolling down the master games it goes down to the end. The whole functionality is flawed and amateurish.

D70%
by D####:

Can't fully understand how it works have difficulty in searching past grandmaster's games please explain more

C70%
by C####:

Kindly make inbuilt analysis as overall game analysis not for each move,one game one analysis, shows blunders and best moves same time,thanks

D70%
by D####:

Good, but please let us paste PGN data, only getting to upload PGN files does not suffice

U70%
by U####:

Where can I get the source text of all the opening moves used here?

O70%
by O####:

High quality PGN editor, recommended for every serious chess player.

K70%
by K####:

Best pgn chess app in play store

I70%
by I####:

Awesome...

O70%
by O####:

Good good good

D70%
by D####:

Fabulous: Purrrr....fect. Its an excellent example of things that work. Gerhard, take a vacation: relax for a month. Erik

D70%
by D####:

Excelent app. Few suggestions... 1. There SHOULD BE an option to filter games based on POSITION. As it will be helpful to filter with our favorite opening setup. 2. Can you show variations or branches with arrows, on every junction point. 3. Facility to go back to root of the current branch - this will help a lot to navigate through sub-variations. 4. Can you vibrate the mobile device if text/explanation is encountered between moves? So that user will come to that he should now see the annotation window. As user's eyes will always on the board and does not come to know when to read the move explanation.

D70%
by D####:

V.good app. . How to delete favourite game list pls help

D70%
by D####:

1. threatened squares: Displays the status of each piece on the board. A red square means that the piece is under attack and not sufficiently defended, or that it is being attacked by a piece of lesser value. This is usually a pretty serious danger signal and means you must take active measures to avoid losing a piece. Yellow means that the piece is under attack, but it is just sufficiently defended. You must be careful about removing any defending piece. Green means the piece has enemy contact but is well defended. Usually it is okay to remove a defending piece.

D70%
by D####:

Fantastic!! I have been using Scid for a long time but eventually it would not load all of the games in my database. So glad I found this app. I mostly use it to read PGN Books. Being able to search master games is awesome. I gladly upgraded to the Pro version.

J70%
by J####:

Nice app but I can't read ScidvsPC files via dropbox (I have Scid on the go installed), will I have to buy the Pro version for that? Will I also be able to read ScidvsPc diagrams? Thanks

D70%
by D####:

Analysing also don't work!!! Solve it please

X70%
by X####:

I really love this app. Where the hell have you been all my life? what can I say? Three thumbs up! 6 stars

D70%
by D####:

Plus Stockfish Engine,what more do you want?? But buy Pro! the Pro will do the job for you even better!

D70%
by D####:

Save does not work. Tried multiple times with dropbox and google drive and file does not get uploaded.

K70%
by K####:

good helpful chess app,add one more support to as" Rating Column" for save games@admin pgnmaster

D70%
by D####:

Waiting for auto play mode mapped with volume keys.

D70%
by D####:

Currently this is the best App for viewing PGN.

I70%
by I####:

Loved it truly.. Best of All..

P70%
by P####:

Great app!

R70%
by R####:

Not only this is the most wonderful chess app to watch the chess games but also a great app to play against chess engines. I like the way it opens the engine options and then to adjust them to any elo levels..I installed Cheng Texel and Arasan ..the uci2 chess engines..This app is a complete chess GUI in itself in android version. The beautiful themes and wonderful presentation that you will never going to forget in your entire life :) Amazing board game with unprecedented qualitative graphics.

D70%
by D####:

no position setup & no open fen files ????

U70%
by U####:

Excelent app. Just couple of things if you can check,- 1) In Guess the Move mode, it omits some nested variations, (Whereas in View Mode it covers everything). 2) It reads the pgn game sequentially (like a book), rather than completing one whole branch at a time, (where variations can be studied properly). Can you look into these??

U70%
by U####:

Chess games exist a dime a dozen. This is supposed to be a pgn viewer, anybody who studies chess knows that there are always variations. So far the only chess game that allows easy study of variations is the old pc Chessmaster games. Why cant android have that?

O70%
by O####:

Not only this is the most wonderful chess app to watch the chess games but also a great app to play against chess engines. I like the way it opens the engine options and then to adjust them to any elo levels..I installed Cheng Texel and Arasan ..the uci2 chess engines..This app is a complete chess GUI in itself in android version. The beautiful themes and wonderful presentation that you will never going to forget in your entire life :) Amazing board game with unprecedented qualitative graphics.

M70%
by M####:

Hello. This is without a doubt the best pgn viewer available in play store. But I cant see the annotator in commented/annotated pgns. Thanks

W70%
by W####:

This is a simple pgn viewing app that has aided me in view tons of games! Get the pgn files on your computer; I used Dropbox, and you're good to go!

U70%
by U####:

How do I edit tags (names of players, etc)?

A70%
by A####:

Only app which gives all pgn functions includes analysis and many more. Thanks for the nice interface.

V70%
by V####:

It improves our skills even in tactics or in middle game and openning

N70%
by N####:

How to find it. Please help me

U70%
by U####:

Why there is no chessgames of World Champion Lasker in this app?

U70%
by U####:

no position setup & no open fen files

U70%
by U####:

Needs Google Drive support, but love the "Guess the move" feature


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