FollowChess

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About this game

Follow live chess games from top international chess tournaments.
Check out the moves of the top players and learn!

FollowChess is now available on ANY Browser! http://live.followchess.com
FollowChess is also available on iPhone and iPad! http://goo.gl/m5s0nz

From Candidates 2018 & Carlsen Karjakin World Chess 2016 match, Champions Showdown to Bundesliga and other International & National tournaments, we cover it all!

★★★★★
See why top players like Vishy Anand, Peter Svidler, Jonathan Tisdall, Tania Sachdev like the App!

Also used by Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and other top GMs!

FEATURES
♞ Watch multiple live games in a single screen! (works offline too!). And with the new WatchList feature, you can also watch multiple live games from DIFFERENT tournaments in a single screen!
♞ Tap board to launch the analysis board. You can enter your own moves too or seek engine assistance. The board will update when new moves are made!
♞ Now get notified when round of your favorite tournament starts or even each game results. Configure it per tournament.
(Pro users can subscribe to all tourney notifications. Free version is restricted to any one tourney, at a time)
♞ Watch live official video broadcast as well as keep an eye on all other boards! (tap the Camera icon)
♞ Analyze the Chess position with the power of multiple Chess engines, simultaneously! (Needs Analyze This app)
♞ View All Games from previous rounds or filter games by your favorite player, result or ECO!
♞ View Standings and more (Tap right down-ward pointing arrow to reveal hidden options)
♞ Know when the next round of your favorite tournament starts, in YOUR local time

TIPS
♞ Analysis board - Double tap the board to launch instant engine analysis!
♞ Analysis board - Swipe finger down to flip the board
♞ Analysis board - Touch and hold left/right arrow key to jump to start/end of game

NOTE
* PRO vs FREE
1. Pro can download all games in .pgn format. Free cannot
2. Pro can access all games from previous rounds. Free can only access drawn games.
3. Pro has no Ads.
4. Pro can view all Standings. Free can view standings of top tables
5. Pro can watch upto 8 games in WatchList. Free can only watch upto 3.
6. Pro users automatically become awesome! ;)

PRO Subscriptions
PRO for a month - USD 0.99
PRO for a year - USD 5.99

Please note monthly & yearly purchases renew automatically. You can cancel at any time via the Google Play Store app - Account - Subscriptions.

Get real-time Chess results on Twitter or FB :
https://twitter.com/FollowChessApp/
https://www.facebook.com/followchess/


Please send your suggestions and bug reports to [e-mail]

Special thanks to Chessdom, Mark Crowther (theweekinchess.com) , Lennart Ootes (http://lennartootes.nl/) & chess24

Ratings and reviews

Great content - the app allows to follow the most prominent chess tournaments from all over the world. The implementation is sloppy though. There are bugs and quirky behaviours. For example I can't turn the sound off for notifications for some reason. All the boxes are unticked under Settings / Notification Sounds, yet the sounds are still there. Or another annoyance. You can only see either DRAWN games, or games from the LAST ROUND (even decisive ones) in the free version. This by itself is fine. BUT the logic is completely inconsistent, because you can't access decisive games from the last round through a player profile nor the "All Games" view - they're marked as "PRO" and unaccessible there... even though the very same games are still accessible through the "round" view! The design isn't perfect either, eg. on the "Standings" list you only get to see points, but not the win-draw-loss stats. On the plus side, the app no longer crashes, unlike in the past when it would happen pretty often.

The ads appear on full screen and cannot be clicked away or closed, de facto making the app unusable. I understand the need for ads but when they take over the entire experience they turn the application into garbage. I can't even say whether this app is good or bad per sé, as I literally could never access anything on it (ads full screen and I have to close it and open it again).

App is great but not intuitive especially with the Olympiad. Searching for player by name in a given Rd takes too long to bring up the board when the player is on the bottom boards. Do away with the auto scrolling animation while searching and just bring up the search result. Tap on country name in the standing not showing the players. It is blank. Searching the country standing by player name omits round 1 even when the player played rd.1. Several issues to highlight but space limited to 500.

What's new

♞ Improved youtube video performance
♞ Bug fixes
EARLIER
♞ Crash fixes
♞ Improved use of spacing in Analysis board screen