Chess Live & Latest Games
James Kinsman Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Chess Live & Latest Games is a paid Games app for iPhone and iPad by James Kinsman. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 5, 2026.
- Price
- 9.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 3 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 5
- 2026 · v1.2
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About Chess Live & Latest Games
Chess Live & Latest Games brings the world's top over-the-board chess to your iPhone and iPad — live tournament relays, the freshest grandmaster games, and the immortal classics, all replayable move by move on a board you can make your own. NOW COMPATIBLE WITH CHESSNUT MOVE. FOLLOW LIVE TOURNAMENTS - Real over-the-board events relayed move by move as they happen - See who's playing right now, with live game lists and results - Built on trusted public broadcast feeds THE LATEST GRANDMASTER GAMES - Browse a curated roster of the world's best players - Pull each player's newest games on demand - Real player photos for a richer browsing experience LEGENDS & DEEP DATABASES - Hand-picked classics, every move verified for accuracy - Download full game databases for the greats — thousands of games each - Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Tal, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov and more - Tap any player's photo for a short bio (sourced from Wikipedia) A BEAUTIFUL, PLAYABLE BOARD - Step through any game, or auto-play hands-free at an adjustable speed - Flip the board to view from either side - 15 board color schemes and multiple piece sets - Tappable move list, last-move highlighting MAKE IT YOURS - Bookmark any position and add your own notes - Import your own games by pasting PGN, fetching a URL, or opening a .pgn file - Download or share any game as a PGN file COMMENTARY - Jump to live human commentary streams for an event - Read written annotations when a game includes them - Optionally generate move-by-move AI commentary using your own Claude or ChatGPT API key (stored only on your device) PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account required - No analytics, no tracking, no ads Game data is provided by public sources including Lichess and Chess.com. Chess Live & Latest Games is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Lichess, Chess.com, FIDE, or any tournament organizer.
What’s new
Version 1.2 · Updated September 5, 2026
Chessnut Move: control how fast moves reach your board. Four seconds was not enough for the pieces to finish a move — castling especially, where two pieces move and one has to thread past the other. • New pace control: send moves to your Chessnut board no faster than one every 10 seconds. Adjustable from 5 to 30, or switch it off. It sits in the follow panel and in Chessnut Boards, whether or not a board is connected. • Fast games no longer outrun the pieces. Moves arriving quicker than your pace are queued and played out in order, in full — so when players blitz out the end of a game you can watch it finish on the board instead of losing it. • Leaving a game lets the queued moves finish rather than sweeping the pieces mid-game. Stop still stops immediately, and Skip to live jumps the board to the current position whenever you want it. • The replay speed slider now reaches 30 seconds per move and shares the same setting. • The pace you choose is remembered.
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App privacy
The developer, James Kinsman, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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