Chess Openings Wizard

🇺🇸 United States
Bookup Corp.  | 
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2.9
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Votes
20
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App Age
7y
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Last Update
Jul 25, 2025

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Rating
3
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
3
598.4K
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App Age
6y 11m
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Price
$7
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Title Length
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Size
157MB
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Chess Openings Wizard
Subtitle (
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Tournament chess opening prep
Description (
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Chess Openings Wizard is where tournament players go to work on their openings. The app is based on the Bookup program that first came out in 1984. The app has full editing and training power like its brethren apps on Macintosh and Windows. Openings can be moved back and forth to the Macintosh and Windows versions. Chess Openings Wizard does not play chess, nor does it come with a game collection. It is meant for designing openings for White and defenses for Black, and then testing the player's knowledge of the lines by playing mock games. Sample ebooks include an opening guide (thousands of named and categorized opening positions accessible through any move order), an ECO master framework, and the White and Black repertoires of Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, and Robert Fischer. It also includes a demo ebook with excerpts from a highly annotated repertoire in the Open Game. Chess Openings Wizard has a dedicated PocketGM server giving you full speed Stockfish analysis. (Internet connection required.) The Pedigree ribbon shows the results of games in each opening position but uses only games between two super GMs. That way you know if the move is trusted by the best players. (And it's important to know if a move has never been played by a super GM when facing another super GM.) This is the same feature found in Chess Openings Wizard Professional for Macintosh and Windows. The short version is: if you are designing an opening with a game database app or with a playing program, you're working too hard. Chess Openings Wizard contains 42 years of refinements, with precisely the tools that a tournament player requires to prepare openings fast. }
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Rating
2.9
20 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Akopian
18 Nov, 2025
5
I have used the various versions of Bookup, and then Chess Opening Wizard for several decades. It is still an excellent way to train your own repertoire. There are some kinks. To reset training on the ipad if training black, set the trainer to start after white's first move as the starting position. It seems to work better if you begin at a screen where you have to make a move to start things off, and if you are playing black, that is not the starting position.So just hit one move, set the trainer to return to that position, and things will be fine from there.
inovelty
30 Aug, 2025
1
Incredibly disappointing app. Controls under the board almost impossible to tap cleanly in latest iOS versions (too far down). No way to resize board or panels to fix it. Text and fonts are unappealing. No way to colour code moves. No iCloud sync, so can't work with ebooks on desktop in real time. Importing/exporting database files is a nightmare. Graphics are slow. Menus are terrible. The whole workflow is unintuitive. No help file. Support website next to useless. Unless the developer does some serious updating, do not buy. Wish I'd kept my money. Claiming in his blurb that this is where tournament players go for opening prep is frankly delusional.
kcalsnur
06 Jul, 2024
1
No update for ages. This update has been long awaited and is so small that it is ridiculous. I love the app on PC but on mobile, that’s not the same. PGN loader and analysis tool plus Anki is much more cheaper and best combination in my opinion. Looks ugly on this modern era too.
Mikebeater
19 Jun, 2024
1
Byzantine UI, training mode doesn’t work as expected
Teichmann70
24 May, 2024
1
This app is very confusing and difficult to work with and consumes so much time for creating even the most basic repertoires. Not worth the money and the time for sure!
m seixas
05 Apr, 2021
5
Plz, keep the support for old iPads with iOS 9.3.6
HardLogic
19 Oct, 2020
2
The help files aren’t great and the layout looks very 1990s. I bought this thinking it had all the features of the PC version. Pretty disappointed.
bzbella
18 Oct, 2020
5
This app made my rating from 1600 to 2100 in online chess.
_NM_
04 Jul, 2020
1
The interface is not well suited for a mobile application. The app needs a chess engine server to run on your local network Mac or Windows desktop/laptop for analysis, which is not practical. Why use this clunky interface when you have to also fire up another computer!? Functionally, this is an incomplete port of a Desktop application written in Delphi.

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Additional Information
Rating:
2.92
Voted: 20
App Store Link:
Price: 6.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Board, Games, Education, Strategy
Size: 157MB
App Age: 7 years
Release Date: Dec 22, 2018
Last Update: Jul 25, 2025
Version: iOS App Version COW build 76
Version history
iOS App Version COW build 76
Jul 25, 2025
Build 76 lets you use the Macintosh Finder to update ebooks. A new Stockfish server has been added.
COW build 71
Jul 01, 2024
Build 71 adds access to the PocketGM server giving Stockfish 16.1 analysis without running an engine on the iPhone or iPad. Build 71 has the updated Training Wizard with blindfold mode and the ability to reset training only for the current line. (Previous versions would reset all training.)
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