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Instant Rematch with ChessNote 1.3.2!

Filed under: apps by Cubelogic — 20111215 2257 Thursday

Download ChessNote 1.3.2 from the App Store!

Version 1.3.2 of ChessNote focuses on user experience and bug fixes. The board screen now has a much more functional organization, using a standard toolbar instead of the geeky right-aligned layout for all the commands. Beside being much easier on the eyes, this makes it a lot easier to browse the moves history, which is something you probably want to do often.

Also, some of you have asked for a rematch feature when a game ends. That would make a lot of sense, wouldn’t it? So, here it is! At the end of each game a pop-up box will ask you whether you want to challenge your opponent one more time. If you do, it’s as easy as tapping “Rematch.” That’s really all there is to it.

Finally, I noticed that the chess-note pane that slides up with each move can be undesired, depending on your mood or astral conjunction: to cater this need, we now have a simple switch to turn that on or off.

That’s it for this release. Thanks again for your support, and happy check-mating!

Download ChessNote 1.3.2 from the App Store!

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ChessNote 1.3.1: send a (chess) note with each move!

Filed under: apps by Cubelogic — 20111203 1345 Saturday

Another incremental update of ChessNote, the simplest app to play correspondence chess on your iPhone or iPod, is available at the App Store.

With ChessNote 1.3.1 you can send a brief message to your opponent every time you make a move, if you feel like it. This is something you could do in the old-school way of playing chess by mail, so it feels natural to have it here. It’s called ChessNote for a reason after all!

On another note (pun intended), we added the ability to see the opponent’s rating on the Game Info screen, a feature that a number of people have requested. Pretty straightforward.

So here it is. Download ChessNote 1.3.1 now!

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ChessNote Scheduled down-time, Sunday Sept. 18 2011

Filed under: apps,system-upgrade by Cubelogic — 20110918 1252 Sunday

Today (Sunday, September 18th, 2011) ChessNote will be down for a couple hours for system upgrade. This is needed for keeping the system reliable and up-to-date. If you experience problems connecting to the servers today, this is the reason.

Service should be coming back online later this evening, approximately around 7pm PST, but hopefully sooner. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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ChessNote 1.3: challenge your friends!

Filed under: apps by Cubelogic — 20110823 2334 Tuesday

The latest release of ChessNote (version 1.3) finally allows you to start a game with your friends. Simply tap on + button on the Games screen, select “by Email”, and type your friend email. Then it’s on!

Remember, your friend (or yourself if you are the one being challenged!) can always decline any challenge by simply going to the Game Info screen.

So, head over to the App Store and update to ChessNote 1.3!

Create a new game on ChessNote, the correspondence chess iPhone app

Decline challenge on ChessNote, the correspondence chess iPhone app

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ChessNote 1.2.2

Filed under: apps,bugs by Ettore — 20110731 2325 Sunday

The new 1.2.2 release of ChessNote focuses again on bug fixes. Among others, we fixed a long standing bug in the Game Info screen, where captures were sometimes mistakenly reported. For instance it was sometimes possible to see 2 black queens captured even if the white player captured only one in the actual game. Please note: this issue never affected gameplay, just the game information screen.

Another issue was the notification badge count (the red number in the App icon), that some users reported as always increasing. That’s now fixed, and it should always reflect the number of games where a move is needed from you.

So, please update now!

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ChessNote 1.2.1

Filed under: apps by Ettore — 20110719 2236 Tuesday

What? You didn’t update to ChessNote 1.2.1 yet? Well, do it now! In this release we mostly fixed issues to make the app more stable, which is the main reason why you should update. But we did add one thing: the remaining time of each game is now displayed directly on the Games list screen, to make it more clear which games need your attention the most. I personally found this small change very useful, so I added it.

As always, happy checkmating!

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Refreshing your games on ChessNote

Filed under: apps by Cubelogic — 2227 Tuesday

A few users have asked how to force a refresh on their games list in ChessNote. Normally you don’t really need to do this, since the list is updated automatically after you make a move and each time you come back to the app. However, if you think your opponent might have already moved and absolutely need to check, simply go to the Games tab, then tap again on the Games tab icon. Et voilà, your games are fresh again! A similar trick applies for the Updates tab.

So there you have it. Happy checkmating!

(For the curious, this feature has been there since version 1.)

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ChessNote 1.2

Filed under: apps by Cubelogic — 20110613 1944 Monday

If you haven’t updated to ChessNote 1.2, you should do so! This new version features:

a new Updates tab, to stay up-to-date with your games,
Moves History for each game, so you can quickly go back in time and review each position,
and other retouches here and there.

Click here to download ChessNote on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

ChessNote is compatible with every version of iOS 3.0 and higher.

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ChessNote resign bug

Filed under: apps,bugs by Cubelogic — 20110407 2151 Thursday

I just fixed a bug on the ChessNote servers that was happening when a player resigned. If you had noticed problems while attempting to resign from a game, those should now be resolved. Sorry for the glitch!

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ChessNote: a new app for playing correspondence chess

Filed under: apps by Ettore — 20110126 2151 Wednesday

ChessNote is a new app by Cubelogic to play correspondence chess on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. It is compatible with iOS 3 and 4, and completely free. It’s the easiest way to play chess on your iPhone.

Like all other products by Cubelogic it focuses on doing less, instead of everything. Because ChessNote is only for one thing: playing chess when you want, when you have time, without hassles or delays.

The user interface couldn’t be clearer: you have your list of games, one tap to see the game, two taps to make a move, and one extra tap to confirm. Next. Or back to whatever you were doing. And if you feel particularly proud about how you stand in your game, you can post your board on Twitter.

ChessNote cares for what’s really important: all official rules and situations of the game of Chess are accounted for, including en passant, stalemate and rather unusual scenarios such as the fifty moves rule.

We have stripped ChessNote of all chagrins that typically slip into games of this sort: ads, pointless chatting, annoyances, distractions. We leave those to other apps. We just care to play chess, and don’t want to be bothered.

Because ChessNote is built by chess lovers for chess lovers. We built a chess application we’d like to use ourselves.