King's Cross: Chess Openings

Manage & Train Your Openings

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1.8.2for iPhone, iPad and more

8.9

18 Ratings

Andreas Kienle

Developer

441.7 MB

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Mar 27, 2021

Update Date

Education

About King's Cross: Chess Openings

King’s Cross is the easiest way to keep track of your chess openings: Consolidate your repertoire in one place synchronized across your devices, explore new variations, practice your openings and analyze your training over time. King’s Cross helps you gain confidence in your openings.

Note: King’s Cross does not come with pre-installed openings. Instead you can build your own repertoire by entering the variations you consider good.

To include more openings in your repertoire and to get rid of ads, subscribe to King’s Cross Premium. Should you choose to subscribe to King’s Cross Premium, the purchase will be charged to your iTunes account. The subscription will be auto-renewed 24 hours prior to it running out and you can manage it from User Settings in iTunes after purchasing it, and you'll also be able to cancel the auto-renewing subscription from there.

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What's New in the Latest Version 1.8.2

Last updated on Mar 27, 2021

Old Versions

Thanks for choosing King’s Cross! This version includes:
• Minor bug fixes

If you come across any issues or have any feedback, please reach out to support@kingscross-app.com.

Version History

1.8.2

Mar 27, 2021

Thanks for choosing King’s Cross! This version includes:
• Minor bug fixes

If you come across any issues or have any feedback, please reach out to support@kingscross-app.com.

1.8.1

Jan 9, 2021

Thanks for choosing King’s Cross! This version includes:
• Fixed a crash when importing moves from PGN
• Fixed an error where you could not import import moves from another opening
• Minor bug fixes

If you come across any issues or have any feedback, please reach out to support@kingscross-app.com.

1.8

Dec 31, 2020

Thanks for choosing King’s Cross! This version includes:
• Opening statistics of more than a million games by Grandmasters and very strong players (can be turned off in Settings)
• Minor bug fixes

If you come across any issues or have any feedback, please reach out to support@kingscross-app.com

1.7.1

Dec 12, 2020

Minor bug fixes and performance improvements

1.7

Nov 26, 2020

Thanks for choosing King’s Cross! This version includes:
• New chess pieces and board designs (see settings)
• Move and position comments are no longer cut off in the moves list
• The indentation of openings is now a bit more pronounced
• Fixed an error that in some rare cases castling rights were not calculated correctly
• Fixed an error that inserting figurine characters into the search field could cause the app to crash
• Fixed an error that a changed email address was not updated in the settings view
• Other UI and stability improvements

If you encounter any technical issues or have ideas how to make the app better, please reach out to support@kingscross-app.com. It means a lot. Thank you!

1.6.4

Nov 13, 2020

Fixed some bugs and carefully hid new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

1.6.3

Nov 8, 2020

Fixed some bugs and carefully hid new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

1.6.2

Dec 11, 2019

Fixed some bugs and carefully hid new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

1.6.1

Dec 7, 2019

Fixed some bugs and carefully hid new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

1.6

Dec 6, 2019

• Dark mode support
• Settings: Force the engine evaluation into a separate row (for smaller devices)
• Support for the iOS password manager

And as usual: fixed some bugs and carefully hidden new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

Good chess!

1.5.1

Jun 24, 2018

• Settings: You can now choose that legal moves shall not be highlighted when you touch a piece.

And as usual: fixed some bugs and carefully hidden new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

Good chess!

1.5

Mar 28, 2018

• Settings: Algebraic notation (instead of figurine)
• Settings: Pawn symbols can be omitted
• iPhoneX and iOS 11 support

And as usual: fixed some bugs and carefully hidden new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

Good chess!

1.4

Aug 2, 2017

• Training Relevance: You can now manually include or exclude individual moves in your training regardless of their annotation or even mark them to be ignored without counting as an error: Move Info > Training Relevance.
• You can now explore a position without adding moves to the opening: Move Info > Explore Position.
• Hint button: You can now “cheat” during training by tapping a Hint button. You have to enable this in Settings first, so you’re not tempted.
• Arrows are colored according to their training relevance, e.g. wrong moves are now marked red.
• Moves can now be entered by tapping the destination square (if that’s unambiguous).

And as usual: fixed some bugs and carefully hidden new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

Good chess!

1.3

May 30, 2017

• Repertoire – You can now add comments to openings as a whole (e.g. for genera strategies, sources, …)
• Repertoire – Openings with bookmarked positions are now marked with a badge
• Repertoire – New option in the settings menu to display moves in all openings (not only in openings of the same color)

And as usual: fixed some bugs and carefully hidden new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

Good chess!

1.2.1

Mar 30, 2017

• Bugfixes and performance improvements.

Your feedback is very much appreciated! If you run into any issues, let me know: support@kingscross-app.com or tweet @KingsCrossApp.
Good chess!

1.2

Mar 17, 2017

• Repertoire – You can now provide position evaluations (“+−”, “±”, …), position comments and move alternative annotations (“better is …”, “worse is …”, …).
• Repertoire – Peek and pop to preview move and position comments (3D Touch on a move in an opening).
• Repertoire – Bookmark positions and training mistakes for quicker access.
• Training – You can now specify the training depth and only train e.g. the first 8 moves of each variation (set in the opening info).
• Training – Variations are now trained in random order.
• More symbols in the keyboard toolbar (“○“, “∞“, “Δ“, “∇“, …).

And as usual: fixed some bugs and carefully hidden new ones. If you happen to find one, I’d love to hear from you: support@kingscross-app.com.

Good chess!

1.1.1

Feb 28, 2017

• Repertoire – You can now browse through all moves in an openings with the “>” button
• UI enhancements
• Minor bugfixes

1.1

Feb 25, 2017

• Search – Now you can search for openings in your repertoire (pull to search)
• Import – Fixed some UI glitches when importing moves from PGN or from another opening
• Minor bugfixes

1.0

Feb 8, 2017

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