CheSScan 2.2.0
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Publisher Description
CheSScan - Chessboard (FEN) and Scoresheet (PGN) Scanner
CheSScan is a chess utility designed to help chess coaches and chess players in their coaching and training work respectively. Two key features of CheSScan are chessboard position (FEN) scanning and tournament scoresheet (PGN) scanning. FEN or board position scanning assumes standard chess variant. For scoresheet scanning, tournament scoresheets have to be written in Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN). Games can be saved as a Portable Game Notation (PGN) file on the device storage.
As of current version, following features are supported by CheSScan:
- FEN scanning - scans a board position from a computer screen or from a chess book
- Lets users edit a chess board to setup a position for analysis
- Scoresheet scanning - scans chess tournament scoresheet
- Lets users correct misidentified moves to build corrected game PGN
- Writing Game PGN - store scanned games as PGN on device
- Analysis - lets users do analysis of games in the database with a very strong chess engine
- Sharing Games - allows users to share their games PGN via email with fellow chess players or trainers
CheSScan is intended to assist its users in not wasting time in entering chess positions or tournament game moves manually and getting down to more productive task of analyzing one's games. In line with aforementioned intention CheSScan provides a very powerful chess engine (Arasan) to analyze scanned board positions or scanned tournament games quickly. Your games are stored on your device as a PGN file which can be shared via email.
Subscriptions
For users wanting to use the ad free premium service, three different subscription plans are on sale:
- CheSScan Pro Opening - $0.99 / month
- CheSScan Pro Middlegame - $2.49 / 3 months
- CheSScan Pro Endgame - $3.99 / 6 months
Once subscribed, subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Purchase will be applied to your Play Store account for renewal within 24 hours before the end of your current period. You can cancel your subscription anytime by going to your Play Store account settings.
Users who choose non-subscription based use of the service, for them, while the key functionality to save the game is not available, users can still:
- Scan board and analyze chess positions
- Edit board to setup chess positions
- Scan tournament scoresheets, correct moves and analyze games
For more information please visit https://chesscan.com/#terms and https://chesscan.com/#privacy.
CheSScan aims to be able to "scan" with high level of accuracy. However, at this point it is not quite there and is limited in following aspects:
- There are myriads of different chess pieces of differing styles, a lot of which CheSScan might not be able to recognize.
- It is your responsibility to make sure that the position you enter on the editable board is legal position for analysis.
- CheSScan cannot recognize cursive handwriting. So, your moves letters/characters should be distinctly legible.
- Moves should not be overlapping or obstructed by scoresheet layout. Move characters should not cross over any of the scoresheet layout lines.
- A handwriting that is not legible to humans would most likely be impossible for an OCR to understand.
- Scoresheet should be as clean as possible, and should not contain unused or crossed out move lines or move boxes.
- A crumpled, marred or unclean scoresheet would be extremely hard for recognizer to work on, and most likely would return without having recognized any moves.
About CheSScan
CheSScan is a free app for Android published in the PIMS & Calendars list of apps, part of Business.
The company that develops CheSScan is Alok Nagdev. The latest version released by its developer is 2.2.0.
To install CheSScan on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2023-10-31 and was downloaded 22 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the CheSScan as malware as malware if the download link to com.nagdev.alok.chesscan is broken.
How to install CheSScan on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the CheSScan is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by CheSScan will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- CheSScan will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
