Chessvis11.1.10 - App Store

Chessvis is designed to help you get better at the game. Its unique, "found nowhere else", puzzle, blindfold chess and progressive move following exercises will sharpen your visualization skills. Now with Version 11, all puzzle exercises are free - including working offline. There's a new menuing system that makes navigating around the huge 'toolbox' of features much easier. The opening repertoire preparation routines are also unique focusing on the "moves you'll see" and finding the "moves that work". Plus you can pull in your own games to see what's working for you. And now, use AI to help uncover the opening that will work for you.

Puzzles
The Chessvis puzzle collection starts with millions of categorized and rated puzzles from Lichess and adds several unique features including:

Category and Rating Control
Chessvis lets you set both the category and rating of the puzzles you’re challenged with. Want to try easy forks one day and hard multiple move mates the next? Do it! You’ll never be forced to only do puzzles around some hypothetical rating you’ve “earned”. The entire puzzle collection is always available for you.

Visualized Puzzles
A unique feature of Chessvis is the "Visualized" puzzle. It presents a puzzle showing the diagram from some number of moves before the actual tactic sequence starts. You're told the number of moves to "visualize" and then solve the problem from a board position that only exists in your mind. This is what got Chessvis started and it’s the only app with it.

Other Puzzle Collection Features
The “no repeat pledge” - with such an extensive puzzle collection, Chessvis is able to make sure you don’t see the same puzzle twice. Want to focus on solving puzzles quickly? Turn on the timer. Going to be away from the internet? Pull puzzles down to your device and work off-line. See your puzzle history. Download the puzzles you’ve done. All that is in Chessvis.

Opening Preparation
Build your repertoires focusing on the "moves you'll see". Chessvis believes that you need to think about the moves your opponents actually play and not some complex way too deep repertoire designed by a master who doesn't play anything like the way you do. At ever step in the repertoire design process, Chessvis shows you the moves your opponents actually make and highlights ones you need to think about. Then once you've built your repertoire, practice it with daily spaced repetition.

Blindfold Chess
Play against the computer with "stepping stones" to help ease your way into blindfold chess. Start with all pieces sharing one color then go to two color disks, one shared color disk and then eventually an empty board. Subscribers had the stockfish and Maia chess engines to the free-to-use Komodo engine.

Who’s Guarding Whom
A deceptively simple visualization exercise that forces you to mentally track piece movements and how they interact. (No other app has this.)

Move Following & Static Boards
Track a sequence of moves and then update the board to that point. Or memorize a board layout, then recreate it. Start off easy with just a few pieces and work your way up.

Analyze Your Games
Download your chess.com and lichess.org games for opening analysis. See what you've been playing, what's been played against you and the results.

Videos
What better way is there than videos to see Chessvis in action? You can watch the videos within the app. They're all kept short and to the point.

Chessvis has always had unique tools to visualize the chessboard and win more games. A famous chess coach said: "Don't think about the pieces being exchanged, visualize how the board will look when the pieces are gone". Move a piece and you affect two places. But it's illegal to physically move the piece and see the effects -- you must learn to visualize. Chessvis is designed to help with that process.

Download it today.

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Version History The Opening Explorer now includes AI analysis. Instead of wading through statistics yourself, let AI read the data and tell you which moves to consider and which to avoid — all based on real games from players at your rating level. 11.1.10 Jul 7 Version 11 adds a new easy to navigate menuing system. Timed and offline puzzles are now free. (I'm a big fan of doing easy puzzle quickly so you develop pattern recognition.) For subscribers, the Maia chess engine has been added. This engine is specifically designed to mimic the playing style of players like you. Every element of the display can be shown in: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese or Swedish. (11.0.20 enhances error reporting) 11.0.20 Jun 28 Version 11 adds a new easy to navigate menuing system. Timed and offline puzzles are now free. (I'm a big fan of doing easy puzzle quickly so you develop pattern recognition.) For subscribers, the Maia chess engine has been added. This engine is specifically designed to mimic the playing style of players like you. Every element of the display can be shown in: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese or Swedish. 11.0.9 Jun 22 Run 'Verbal Chess' right inside 'Chessvis'! Access the new Cloud AI Voices and multiple languages. (It's on the left-hand menu.) And fixes an error in the menu structure. 10.1.4 11/19/2025 Run 'Verbal Chess' right inside 'Chessvis'! Access the new Cloud AI Voices and multiple languages. (It's on the left-hand menu.) 10.1.2 11/18/2025 With Version 10, Chessvis speaks your language! Starting with: Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese. Subscribers can pick their favorite puzzle categories! And 'Eye Gaze' gets reworked and embedded in Chessvis. With it, you can use an 'eye tracker' to play. And since it now works on phones, users who don't need an eye tracker might find the move selection easy using just 'two thumbs'. Find the toolbar buttons too small on your tablet screen? Now you can enlarge them. 10.0.7 11/02/2025 V9.14 - "Puzzle Rating" selection is improved. Now you can specify a range of any size. Plus the screen got a 'facelift' with the long list of checkboxes replaced by sliders. Also, on 'Puzzle Visualization' if you click on the wrong 'from' square, clicking on that same square again will just clear the 'from' selection. 9.14.1 09/29/2025 9.12.1 fixed a bug in "Who's Guarding Whom" where you can accidentally send the "answer" multiple times to the server. 9.12.1 08/19/2025 With V9.10, Repertoire Drill ignores moves to invalid squares. In "Preferences", you can select the alternate board colors in either system "light" or "dark" mode. 9.10.3 07/02/2025 Fix a bug in downloading user's latest games from chess.com 9.9.8 10/30/2024 Puzzle Categories now include opening themes AND display categories in groups for easy navigation. (9.9.6 fixes a bug in puzzle rating selection.) 9.9.6 08/15/2024 V9.9 - Puzzle Categories now include opening themes AND display categories in groups for easy navigation. 9.9.4 08/13/2024 V9.8 - "Learn" section within Chessvis adds "voice chat"! "Learn" enables coaches and students to work together on the same board with integrated chat. This update adds drawing arrows and square highlighting on the board, game review and exploration, move and sound indications. The best part is that it works the same on all IOS devices - phones and tablets. If you are a coach, please contact me. If you're a student, please tell your coach! 9.8.10 05/25/2024 V9.7 - Enhances the new "Learn" section within Chessvis. "Learn" enables coaches and students to work together on the same board with integrated chat. This update adds drawing arrows and square highlighting on the board, game review and exploration, move and sound indications. The best part is that it works the same on all IOS devices - phones and tablets. If you are a coach, please contact me. If you're a student, please tell your coach! 9.7.8 05/08/2024 V9.6 - The beginning of an entirely new section within Chessvis. The "Learn" section. The first entry there is a routine that enables coaches and students to work together on the same board with integrated chat. The best part is that it works the same on all IOS devices - phones and tablets. If you are a coach, please contact me. If you're a student, please tell your coach! 9.6.1 04/09/2024 V9.4 - Opening Explorer and Repertoire routines can make moves that are outside the rating filter. Moves that weren't played in games within the rating filter will be shown after the 'within rating range' moves and will show the word 'all' in the percentage space. Also, enhanced the color on the repertoire tree branch indicators. 9.4.3 03/13/2024 V9.2.2 has new puzzle features! For timed puzzles, you'll find a new option to set when the timer will start. Setting the timer to start when you make the first move lets you focus on the entire puzzle's solution instead of just the first move. Separately, you can set the number of visualized moves to zero enabling you to work on regular puzzles while having to keep the move changes in your mind. 9.2.2 02/12/2024 Version 9 has an entirely new look. All the routines are immediately accessible from the new menu structure. Since the iOS and web versions are back in sync, you can use mobile and desktop web versions harmoniously. (For example, building a repertoire might be better with the big desktop screen while taking advantage of mobile's "play anywhere" to practice your repertoire.) You'll find the new opening explorer and repertoire programs included but the old ones are still there under the "Legacy" heading. (Version 9.1.10 fixes a problem with subscription pricing in local currency. Adds 'Replay' to 'Play Computer' and 'Play Blindfold'.) 9.1.10 01/31/2024 Version 9 has an entirely new look. All the routines are immediately accessible from the new menu structure. Since the iOS and web versions are back in sync, you can use mobile and desktop web versions harmoniously. (For example, building a repertoire might be better with the big desktop screen while taking advantage of mobile's "play anywhere" to practice your repertoire.) You'll find the new opening explorer and repertoire programs included but the old ones are still there under the "Legacy" heading. (Version 9.1.8 fixes a problem with 'zoom' text in portrait mode.) 9.1.8 01/29/2024 Version 9 has an entirely new look. All the routines are immediately accessible from the new menu structure. Since the iOS and web versions are back in sync, you can use mobile and desktop web versions harmoniously. (For example, building a repertoire might be better with the big desktop screen while taking advantage of mobile's "play anywhere" to practice your repertoire.) You'll find the new opening explorer and repertoire programs included but the old ones are still there under the "Legacy" heading. (Version 9.1.7 fixes a few bugs including 'reveal' in blindfold play. V9.1.6 added 'move review' to 'move following' when you're checking the answer.) 9.1.7 01/24/2024 Version 9 has an entirely new look. All the routines are immediately accessible from the new menu structure. Since the iOS and web versions are back in sync, you can use mobile and desktop web versions harmoniously. (For example, building a repertoire might be better with the big desktop screen while taking advantage of mobile's "play anywhere" to practice your repertoire.) You'll find the new opening explorer and repertoire programs included but the old ones are still there under the "Legacy" heading. (Version 9.1.6 fixes a few bugs and adds 'move review' to 'move following' when you're checking the answer.) 9.1.6 01/24/2024 Version 9 has an entirely new look. All the routines are immediately accessible from the new menu structure. Since the iOS and web versions are back in sync, you can use mobile and desktop web versions harmoniously. (For example, building a repertoire might be better with the big desktop screen while taking advantage of mobile's "play anywhere" to practice your repertoire.) You'll find the new opening explorer and repertoire programs included but the old ones are still there under the "Legacy" heading. 9.1.2 01/18/2024 Access to the Web version is incorporated in the native app. Your login information is communicated so you don't have to login a second time. 8.3.2 06/27/2023 Celebrate your puzzle success with a sparkling light show! V7.2.0 adds a subscriber benefit where you can set a target number of puzzles to do per day. When you hit that target (or a multiple), the chessboard lights up with a fun light show. 7.2.0 02/06/2022 V7.1.2 cleans up the way login/register are presented. The main menu now has one "Login / Register" listing if you haven't logged in or "My Account" if you have. That brings up a submenu just for account items.

The first "account user preference" that subscribers will have is: board coordinate location control. You'll be able to specify: inside (like now)m outside and no coordinate labels. The "inside" coordinates have been cleaned up for all too. 7.1.2 01/22/2022