Chess PGN Master
Gerhard Kalab Board
Chess PGN Master.
The professional way to view and edit PGN files.
- Rating
- 4.2
- 2.2K ratings
- Downloads
- 100K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Jul 9
- 2026
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About Chess PGN Master
This is the trial version of Chess PGN Master, a learning and study tool for chess amateurs and professionals alike. In order to improve in chess, apart from playing lots of games, it is essential to
* study chess games from masters and to try to understand why the moves were played
* study endgame positions
* gain a basic knowledge of the openings you play
Chess PGN Master helps you with these tasks by making it easy to
* review chess games
* enter your own games and blunder check them
* analyze games with a strong chess engine
* play positions against a chess engine
and it can do a lot more!
The trial version allows you to view:
- the first 20 games of a PGN file
Please buy the pro key to remove restrictions and to enable saving changed games:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalab.pgnviewerpro
Features:
* Easy navigation (tap on left or right side of the board to move the pieces)
* Analyze games with the integrated analysis engine (output limited to one move in trial version) - start with menu - Analyisis start/stop
* Add more UCI chess engines for analysis (e.g. use the engines distributed with Chessbase)
* Color squares (right menu Display - Show coloring buttons) and draw colored arrows - tap or drag on the board after selecting a color
* Chess960 support (to castle select your King first, then your Rook you want to castle with)
* Cloud support (Google Drive, Nextcloud, Seafile)
* Autoplay (automatically move the pieces, time between moves can be set in settings)
* Live update of games (a PGN file from the web which is updated will automatically be reloaded once a minute)
* includes a PGN file with 6 annotated games from "Chess Fundamentals" by former world champion José Raúl Capablanca
* Blunder check
* Supports many languages (e.g. Russian, Chinese) in annotations (see Preferences - Set encoding)
* Share games with other programs, share from Chessbase Online
* Can read Scid database files if "Scid on the go" is installed
* Support for chess engines in open exchange format like Komodo or Texel
* study chess games from masters and to try to understand why the moves were played
* study endgame positions
* gain a basic knowledge of the openings you play
Chess PGN Master helps you with these tasks by making it easy to
* review chess games
* enter your own games and blunder check them
* analyze games with a strong chess engine
* play positions against a chess engine
and it can do a lot more!
The trial version allows you to view:
- the first 20 games of a PGN file
Please buy the pro key to remove restrictions and to enable saving changed games:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalab.pgnviewerpro
Features:
* Easy navigation (tap on left or right side of the board to move the pieces)
* Analyze games with the integrated analysis engine (output limited to one move in trial version) - start with menu - Analyisis start/stop
* Add more UCI chess engines for analysis (e.g. use the engines distributed with Chessbase)
* Color squares (right menu Display - Show coloring buttons) and draw colored arrows - tap or drag on the board after selecting a color
* Chess960 support (to castle select your King first, then your Rook you want to castle with)
* Cloud support (Google Drive, Nextcloud, Seafile)
* Autoplay (automatically move the pieces, time between moves can be set in settings)
* Live update of games (a PGN file from the web which is updated will automatically be reloaded once a minute)
* includes a PGN file with 6 annotated games from "Chess Fundamentals" by former world champion José Raúl Capablanca
* Blunder check
* Supports many languages (e.g. Russian, Chinese) in annotations (see Preferences - Set encoding)
* Share games with other programs, share from Chessbase Online
* Can read Scid database files if "Scid on the go" is installed
* Support for chess engines in open exchange format like Komodo or Texel
What’s new
Updated July 9, 2026
● Fixed missing LEDs during Autoplay on the DGT Pegasus E‑Boards.
User reviews
Excelent app. Can you enable dragging of pieces on the board.
Do you have a pgn version of the opening explorer?
I can't set up the board with only a piece like knight so that i can demonstrate to my students virtually how a piece move. Is that possible for this app??
Its a great app But please be active and add latest online games like' chessable masters ' to your master games. Thank you
this app is too lag when I install Chess PGN Master Pro key
Its a very nice app, I like it especially when combined with the "Master Games" app and I recommend for all chess players out there who are serious in their development, but I would like to make a suggestion, I thought it would be better if there is an another app named "Openings" or something that provides all the ...
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