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CHESS INSIGHT for Mac

 

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AVAILABLE IN MAC APP STORE

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Most of the existing chess programs to work with your chess games run on PC only or just have been already outdated for many years. We have struggled with that for the last decade and that's why we come up with an idea of "Chess Insight". This chess database is addressing this issue. Mac users and chess enthusiasts across the world had deserved to use their own native software with the stunning look & feel designed by best professionals in the industry.

 
  • No virtual machines or Parallels needed.
  • State of art user interface followed the best industrial standards
  • High definition graphics and icons to support Retina displays.
  • Full-fledged chess database software to run natively on your Mac.
  • High performance embedded database keeps you games always available and organized.

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Stunning Look & Feel

Application incorporated the latest UIX trends and approaches on MacOS platform, chess database management for Mac never been so intuitive. All fonts and graphic assets have been craftily selected to provide the best possible user experience you deserved. The full fledged chess notation viewer gives you an ability to read your games and electronic chess books like never before! They look like they have been published in a chess magazine!

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Compact View

FULL SCREEN EFFICIENCY

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.

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Database chess board

STATE OF ART CHESS BOARD

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.

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Edit database

DATABASES CUSTOMIZATION

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.

Features Highlights

Intuitive user interface with compact view functionality allows you play your games in a full-screen mode without a lost of context. Editing of the chess game metadata has never been so simple. Annotate your games during the analyze process with a full set of pgn available symbols.

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Games screen

SEARCH OVER CHESS GAMES

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

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Anotate pgn chess game

CHESS GAME ANNOTATION

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.

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Edit chess game metadata

EDIT CHESS GAME METADATA

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.

Edit chess game metadata

Edit chess game metadata

IMPORT PGN FILES

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.

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Compact View

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.

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Database chess board

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.

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Edit database

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!

Edit chess game metadata

Edit chess game metadata

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.

CHESS DATABASE FOR EVERYONE

Best choice for those who love reading the chess books in pgn format (app allows import pgn files and the notation viewer is outstanding), for chess game annotators, chess coaches, and their students to ongoing chess game analyzing, for regular club players to keep their game records in highly searchable format. You can analyze and annotate the games, import, and export to/from pgn format. The app includes an embedded chess engine (SF8) with Syzygy tablebases support. Also, the software provides an opening explorer based on 2M master played games. The Chess Insight has very clean & slick UI that is very easy to use.

  • 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!
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What People Are Saying

We appreciate your opinion and will appreciate any review you give us in Mac App Store because your opinion is important for us. That's why we are happy to share some positive feedback from our real customers we had received.

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"Easy to be productive AND fun to use. Beautiful, fun to use, pleasent to the eye, minimalistic yet powerfull. Love this app. Definatley happy with my purchase."


Ghostweb-hater on Aug 13, 2017

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"Very clean, beautiful interface. Great developer. Software looks and functions great. I had a small issue and received an immediate, in depth response."


88six1 on Aug 17, 2017

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"Many earlier apps for Mac are outdated and have old / no intuitive / complicated interfaces. Chess Insight is simple, lightweight, fast, clean and effective chess app. "


Dariush on Aug 12, 2017

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Latest News

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

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