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Life & fun · November 13, 2024

OpenChess

An application for learning chess openings

OpenChess launched on November 13, 2024 with 12 votes, #1,286 of 4,990 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

The opening moves in chess can often lead to an easy win or an easy loss. This application walks the user through named chess openings that have stood the test of time as solid ways to start a chess game, helping the user win more games out of the opening.

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Board Developer David Bryant Language EN English Size 59.5 MB iPhone, iPad Learn chess openings with OpenChess: An Opening Explorer. Play against the computer, or play as both sides, and be shown the lines that are within any opening that you are interested in learning. Want to learn the Sicilian Defense or the Queen’s Gambit? Choose that category and play against that a computer that only follows lines within that opening category. Wany to focus on learning all of the openings that start with a specific move, such as pawn to “e4”? This category can also be selected, and you can play against a computer that only plays lines that start with “e4”. The chess engine in this app is not…from apps.apple.com

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