Forward Chess
Forward Chess Strategy In-app purchases
Forward Chess is like having a book and a chessboard in the palm of your hand!
- Rating
- 4.5
- 1.3K ratings
- Downloads
- 115K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 23
- 2026 · v2.20.3
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About Forward Chess
Forward Chess is an interactive chess book reader. Read the book, play through book lines, AND try your OWN lines. The embedded Stockfish engine, one of the strongest chess playing engines on the planet, can be invoked at any time to provide an evaluation of the book’s moves or an evaluation of your own variations. Forward Chess is like having a book, a chessboard, and a powerful analysis tool together right in the palm of your hand!
One of the best things about Forward Chess is its ergonomic design. Forward Chess engineers designed easy-to-reach “Previous” and “Next” buttons that allow the user to quickly scroll through moves, and a one-touch snap-to-position feature that allows the user to touch a move and snap to a position. The resizable diagrams are easy on the eyes.
For large-scale navigation, Forward Chess allows the user to jump directly to specific chapters, scroll seamlessly through single chapters, and navigate long trees of variations with ease.
Forward Chess now supports note taking: creation, editing, and deletion. The app also supports multiple bookmarks per book.
Forward Chess currently features books published by the following fine chess publishers: Quality Chess, Chess Stars, Russell Enterprises, Chess Informant, New In Chess, and Mongoose Press.
Dozens of recent titles from these publishers are available inside the Forward Chess bookstore for purchase. A number of free sample books are also available for an immediate “test drive.”
Forward Chess promises to propel your chess training forward to the next level!
One of the best things about Forward Chess is its ergonomic design. Forward Chess engineers designed easy-to-reach “Previous” and “Next” buttons that allow the user to quickly scroll through moves, and a one-touch snap-to-position feature that allows the user to touch a move and snap to a position. The resizable diagrams are easy on the eyes.
For large-scale navigation, Forward Chess allows the user to jump directly to specific chapters, scroll seamlessly through single chapters, and navigate long trees of variations with ease.
Forward Chess now supports note taking: creation, editing, and deletion. The app also supports multiple bookmarks per book.
Forward Chess currently features books published by the following fine chess publishers: Quality Chess, Chess Stars, Russell Enterprises, Chess Informant, New In Chess, and Mongoose Press.
Dozens of recent titles from these publishers are available inside the Forward Chess bookstore for purchase. A number of free sample books are also available for an immediate “test drive.”
Forward Chess promises to propel your chess training forward to the next level!
What’s new
Version 2.20.3 · Updated September 23, 2026
* Improved board size in Tactics Trainer mode on Tablets
User reviews
Super app!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like this app.
I like that books are accessible from the cloud and thus can be downloaded to both Android and Apple apps. Not available in Gambit Chess Studio.
The best chess game improver app
Excellent layout. Very impressed.
My name is nashun nashunovich maghakian. I am 11. I am born in turkey Ankara 14/11/1981. I am go to chess school in hospital 14/11/1981. I am X grostmaster.
I just discovered this and I absolutely love it. It is perfect. I am devouring chess books. Download it. Buy a book, and see for yourself. I have it on my iPad, my Android phone, and my Windows PC, and split my reading amount these devices almost evenly.
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