Deep Green 2.1.2 is made for iPhone Duo and gives the board more room everywhere. - MADE FOR IPHONE DUO: Deep Green adapts to both displays and every pose. The board keeps to the upper half in laptop pose, centers on the fold in book pose – like a folding chess board – and spans the fold when open flat. The game controls follow the system into the vertical bar. - ROOM FOR THE BOARD: The board takes all the space the bars leave it and stays centered on the screen – hide the bars, and it fills the screen. On iPad, the game controls move to a bottom toolbar in portrait, centered within reach of either thumb, instead of crowding the title. - POLISH: The Suggest Move symbol always completes a full turn, and Game List boards no longer animate into place while you scroll. Plus all the improvements in versions 2.1 and 2.1.1, listed below. Deep Green 2.1 is the biggest update in years: a refreshed design, chess files, board images, and a first-class chess board on iPad – and now iPhone Duo. - REFRESHED DESIGN: Liquid Glass and a new app icon on iOS 26 – refractive on iOS 27 – improved chess piece design in the Game List, and a modernized welcome sheet. - MADE FOR IPAD: Dedicated menu bar, multiple windows, and refined trackpad, mouse, and Apple Pencil support. Squares highlight as you hover, and tints show where a dragged piece may legally land. - CHESS FILES: Import PGN and FEN files from the Files app, by drag and drop, or via AirDrop – with Quick Look previews and thumbnails showing the actual position. - BOARD IMAGES: Copying or sharing a game or position includes an image of the board. Save it straight to Photos: it follows the orientation the board is shown with, is named after the game, and carries players, event, date, searchable keywords, and the complete game with it. - SMARTER PLAY: Pick between variations with the Step Forward button, choose the engine's search depth for Suggest Move, press and hold Undo to redo a move, take back the move that ended a game, and stalemate correctly ends the game in a draw. - IN YOUR LANGUAGE: German, UK English, and Danish localizations. Plus a zoom transition into games, tips introducing features, smoother piece dragging on ProMotion displays, and a long list of fixes. See the full change log via What's New in the app.
Deep Green 2.1.1 is ready for iOS 27 and polishes 2.1, the biggest update in years. - READY FOR iOS 27: Built against the newest SDKs, with a refractive app icon on iOS 27. - REDO A MOVE: Press and hold the Undo button to redo the move you just took back. And you can now take back the move that ended a game, while it is still open. - BOARD IMAGES, UPGRADED: Sharing a game now offers Save Image. Images follow the orientation the board is shown with, are named after the game, and carry it with them – players, event, date, searchable keywords, and the complete game – all preserved when saving to Photos. - STABILITY: All crashes reported from version 2.1 are fixed. Smoother piece dragging on ProMotion displays. Plus a batch of smaller refinements, and of course all the improvements in version 2.1, listed below. Deep Green 2.1 embraces iOS 26 and makes the iPad a first-class chess board. - REFRESHED DESIGN: Liquid Glass and a new app icon on iOS 26, improved chess piece design in the Game List, and a modernized welcome sheet. - MADE FOR IPAD: Dedicated menu bar, multiple windows, and refined trackpad, mouse, and Apple Pencil support. Squares highlight as you hover, and tints show where a dragged piece may legally land. - CHESS FILES: Import PGN and FEN files from the Files app, by drag and drop, or via AirDrop – with Quick Look previews and thumbnails showing the actual position. - BOARD IMAGES: Copying or sharing a game or position now also includes an image of the board. - SMARTER PLAY: Pick between variations with the Step Forward button, choose the engine's search depth for Suggest Move, and stalemate now correctly ends the game in a draw. - IN YOUR LANGUAGE: German, UK English, and Danish localizations. Plus a zoom transition into games, tips introducing features, and a long list of fixes. See the full change log via What's New in the app.
Deep Green 2.1 embraces iOS 26 and makes the iPad a first-class chess board. - REFRESHED DESIGN: Liquid Glass and a new app icon on iOS 26, improved chess piece design in the Game List, and a modernized welcome sheet. - MADE FOR IPAD: Dedicated menu bar, multiple windows, and refined trackpad, mouse, and Apple Pencil support. Squares highlight as you hover, and tints show where a dragged piece may legally land. - CHESS FILES: Import PGN and FEN files from the Files app, by drag and drop, or via AirDrop – with Quick Look previews and thumbnails showing the actual position. - BOARD IMAGES: Copying or sharing a game or position now also includes an image of the board. - SMARTER PLAY: Pick between variations with the Step Forward button, choose the engine's search depth for Suggest Move, and stalemate now correctly ends the game in a draw. - IN YOUR LANGUAGE: German, UK English, and Danish localizations. Plus a zoom transition into games, tips introducing features, and a long list of fixes. See the full change log via What's New in the app.
Fixed - Moved to scene-based life-cycle to comply with upcoming iOS requirements - Cleaned up and smoothened launch sequence - "No Games" placeholder is now vertically centered on screen - Reduced binary app size by more than a megabyte
Added - You can now Share to Deep Green directly from within Files.app and other apps that can share PGN content. Fixed - Engine could crash while making move right after opening game (thanks Richard!) - In a game where the player resigns after being checked, the king now goes to show resignation instead of just flashing and going back to normal. - When sending an e-mail to support@deepgreen.app from within the app, it is now as plain text, not HTML. Unless you specifically apply rich content. Plus the recent improvements in version 2.0.1: Added - Dark and Tinted app icons on iOS 18, refreshed light mode icon - Copy Position (FEN) in addition to Copy Game (PGN) item in contextual menu, accessible from the Games List Fixed - Capturing rook on its start position did not update state correctly, causing the engine to crash - Tapping New Game could cause the app to freeze when device’s Text Size was set to more than 100% - Empty game list graphics looked like you could tap it to create new game - Status bar appearance glitch when presenting What's New after first launch - Animating between two non-adjacent positions could move pieces in a way they were not played in the game - King highlighting between certain states made it appear almost flashing - King highlighting in a drawn game was done in gray (is now yellow) - Colors have been adjusted to improve contrast (still some way to go on the board scene in general) - Board selection color is now more subdued
Added - Dark and Tinted app icons on iOS 18, refreshed light mode icon - Copy Position (FEN) in addition to Copy Game (PGN) item in contextual menu, accessible from the Games List Fixed - Capturing rook on its start position did not update state correctly, causing the engine to crash - Tapping New Game could cause the app to freeze when device’s Text Size was set to more than 100% - Empty game list graphics looked like you could tap it to create new game - Status bar appearance glitch when presenting What's New after first launch - Animating between two non-adjacent positions could move pieces in a way they were not played in the game - King highlighting between certain states made it appear almost flashing - King highlighting in a drawn game was done in gray (is now yellow) - Colors have been adjusted to improve contrast (still some way to go on the board scene in general) - Board selection color is now more subdued
- Modern, clean UI and piece design. - Support for storing multiple games. - Share, save, copy/paste, import/export chess games in PGN format. - Enjoyable opponent with adjustable strength, praised for its humane gameplay. - No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no-nonsense. Rewritten from scratch to make it a modern, maintainable app.
Fixed a bug that would prevent moving the pieces when using tap/tap moves.
This version fixes some of the most common bugs.
- Support for all current iPhone screen sizes - Several bug fixes - This update requires iOS 7. Continue to use version 1.2 on older iOS versions. If you like Deep Green, please rate it on the App Store.
- Optimized for iPhone 4 and iPad displays - New default look of board and pieces (skin) - Universal binary (i.e. iPad version at no extra cost)
iOS 4 compability: - Support for Multitasking and Fast App Switching - Fixed bug causing animation delays
Fixed two bugs in Game Info: - Affecting only 2.2.x, only the Game Info title would be displayed. - Affecting only 3.0, the app would crash when navigating down, then back up to Game Info.