EaseChess

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Introduction

A Beautiful Chess App for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

EaseChess is a native chess app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, built around a warm, distraction-free design and a board that is a pleasure to play on.

The board is rendered in lite 3D — an isometric orthographic view with soft shadows, smooth-shaded pieces, and an interactive tilt that follows your touch. Move by tapping or dragging, with legal-move hints showing where a piece can go and a last-move indicator keeping track of what just happened.

Every chess rule is in: castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, the fifty-move rule, threefold repetition, and insufficient material. Play pass-and-play against a friend, or take on the computer opponent at Easy, Medium, or Hard. The move history records each move in standard notation alongside its elapsed time, and every game is saved automatically — force-quit and relaunch picks up exactly where you left off.

 

 

Changelog

Version 1.0

First release!

Rules

  • Full FIDE rules: castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate
  • Draw by fifty-move rule, threefold repetition, and insufficient material
  • Resign and agree to a draw

Board

  • Lite-3D board: isometric orthographic view with soft shadows and an interactive tilt
  • Smooth-shaded, procedurally built pieces in porcelain and charcoal finishes
  • Coordinate labels (a–h, 1–8) around the board edge, togglable in Settings
  • Tap-to-move and drag-to-move
  • Legal-move hints, last-move indicator, and check highlight

Game modes

  • Pass-and-play: two players on one device, with an optional setting to flip the board each move
  • Computer opponent at three levels — Easy, Medium, and Hard

Move history & controls

  • Move list in standard algebraic notation with per-move elapsed time
  • Undo and redo, new game, resign
  • Step back and forward through the game record
  • Copy game as PGN

Persistence

  • Autosave after every move; resume resumes the exact position and clocks
  • Game library listing all saved games, with delete

Design & accessibility

  • Modern minimalist design: deep slate and warm amber on all three platforms
  • Adaptive layouts: iPhone portrait and landscape, iPad full-screen and Split View, macOS window
  • VoiceOver with spoken move announcements and a full accessibility grid over the board
  • Reduce Motion, Dynamic Type, and keyboard play on macOS
  • Sound and haptic feedback, each togglable in Settings