App Detail » The Chess Glossary: Positions, Problems, Jargon

App Description

The Chess Glossary: Positions, Problems, Jargon is a 3-in-1 app for anyone who wants to learn everything about chess. You can take quizzes, study flashcards, and look up facts, all in a single app.

The app contains information about over 680 term. The app contains detailed definitions for all of them. Also, it's easy to view the Wikipedia page for a given terms (if it exists) directly, from within the app. Here's some of the terms you can learn with this app:
• bishop pair
• line
• closed game (or Closed Game)
• chop wood
• flank opening
• perpetual check
• bishop
• opening book
• Plachutta
• castling
• Portable Game Notation (PGN)
• home rank
• aspiration search
• pseudo-legal
• International Arbiter
• opposition
• queen pawn (or queen's pawn)
• mate
• underpromotion
• twin
• aristocrat
• bishops on opposite colors (or bishops of opposite colors)
• central pawn
• interference
• check

Start by learning exactly what you want in Flashcard Mode. The app contains 680 flashcards, but you can filter them however you want. Maybe you're only interested in V or F? It's easy to apply filters to learn exactly what you want.

Next you can test your knowledge in Quiz Mode. The app tracks your progress over time, so you can see exactly how much you've learned.

Finally, the app contains an extensive database available in Reference Mode. Now you can look up whatever you want, whenever you want, no internet connection required. The app also contains a powerful search function, so you can jump right to the information you're looking for.

App Changes

• June 16, 2019 Initial release