CHESS INSIGHT for Mac

Analyze & Learn

Follow a game development with an embed chess engine. "Chess Insight" will suggest you with the Best Move and current evaluation of the position. Additionally, a built-in chess engine will present you with best possible variations of game continuation. Learn from your mistakes during an analysis of a game of chess. Watch the real time evaluation of advantage any side can achieve.

Collect & Organize

Organize your pgn files you own into databases. Convert your pgn books into the high searchable format. The chess database provides an intuitive way to organize your fragmented chess files. Just use an embedded import functionality to add your games into the program and then use a quick search function to look for opponents and games' positions.

Read & Annotate

"Chess insight" includes full fledged PGN notation viewer allows you to read your chess books and chess magazines. Go through the chess game by annotating your thoughts and ideas in an easy and convenient way. Comment the moves of the game and game's variations. Chess Insight gives you a unique opportunity to use all set of standard pgn annotation symbols and insert diagrams.

Screen, Management

All your chess games on your fingertips inside of "Chess Insight". The collapsible sidebars allow you to use a screen space in a most efficient way. You can fully collapse each sidebar individually or just use drag & drop to compact the left sidebar only. All the settings will be preserved automatically and the application will restore it's layout state after re-launch.

Themes, Hi-Res graphics

The application uses high-quality assets and has been designed to use all available screen's real-estate in an effective manner. The Board View is highly attractive and allows you to alternate the colors with the predefined presets.

Databases, Easy Management

Easy organize and customize your databases. Assign an icon or select an existing one. Provide a description, and meaningful tags allow you to locate the database later. Also, you can mark a database as a favorite, this will pin the database in the Favorite section of the left sidebar. Import your games as easy as simple click a single action button.

Search, Games management

Search never been so convenient, just type whatever you looking for. Filter over the chess games inside of the chess database and look for positions using straightforward FEN notation! (comming soon) Just type >2400 in a search box to filter the games by the players with ELO over 2400

Game, Annotation

The game annotation has never been so excited. All pgn related symbols are available and ready to be used. Promote and delete variations, clean up the game from commentaries, copy pgn and FEN position, and insert diagrams. Auto-classifier will try to classify you position according to ECO classification (comming soon) to save your time.

Game, Management

All tags are available to be edited. There are tags such as the players' names, ELO ratings, ECO code of the game, a site, a number of the round and a date of the tournament took place, a time control, a game result and lots of others. This feature is available from both screens: games view and game view sections.

Files, Management

Add your chess files in the chess database with import function. Using the import functionality you can copy all your games, all your chess magazines like "Chess Informant" or "Chess Life Magazine" stored in pgn file format into "Chess Inside" database. The chess database has an import progress bar showing the progress of import operation.

OPENING EXPLORER

Opening, Tools

With our Chess Opening Explorer, ​you can navigate an online chess database move by move. The Chess Opening Explorer backed by 2M masters played games. The Opening Explorer is the helpful tool if you want to study an opening. This is your starting point to a universe of chess opening exploration.

BUILT-IN CHESS ENGINE

Middlegame, Tools

Chess Insight's analyze tool backed by a modern chess engine (SF8) with estimated ELO 3390. Change amount of lines to analyze. Additionally, you can limit amount of resources you want to allocate for the engine such as memory or number of cores. The chess engine has support of Syzygy tablebases in case you want to use them.

ENDGAME TABLEBASES

Ending, Tools

The concept of tablebases is well-known, and there have been several implementation of them, such as the Thompson tablebases, the Nalimov tablebases and more. The latest engines such as SF8 and Komodo 11 provide special support of the new Syzygy format. If you have access to Syzygy tablebases you can easely use them in conjunction with Chess Insight!

EXPORT YOUR DATA

Data, Managemetn

Chess Insight uses its own internal data format to keep all chess games searchable and accessible without needs to manage files on your Mac. Same time quite often you will need to share your games or entire chess database with your friends. We provide an ability to export your games into pgn format. Also, you can generate animated GIF files from the games. This will help you to make a Twit post highly attractive.

• First of all be effective as never before!
• Don't spend your time reading the user manuals. Software must be efficient and easy to use by design!
• Our software is ready to be used out of the box!
• Sandboxed and secured by design, and it's only available chess database management software on the Mac App Store!
• Designed to satisfy any level of the chess players from novice to national masters and even GMs!

What People Are Saying

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• Version 1.0 is avalableJuly 1, 2017
• Version 1.43 is avalableAugust 28, 2017

• Chess games in pgn
• Kingbase pgn files
• CHESS INFORMANT
• New In Chess