tChess developer launches iPhone tutorial app

Tom Kerrigan, the developer of iPhone chess games tChess Pro and tChess Lite, has launched a separate educational app called Learn Chess.

He tells PocketGamer.biz that the new app came about due to players of the other games emailing with questions about the rules of chess.

"I decided to make a small, built-in tutorial that would explain how the pieces move and so on," he says. "But as I was working on it, I realised I could make it interactive and add much more content and it would be a pretty cool, useful app by itself."

Learn Chess offers 120 'pages' of tutorials, covering tactics, strategy and even algebraic notation and Elo rating systems.

But here's the interesting thing: the app is free, with an advertisement within it for tChess. In other words, it could serve as a marketing iniative in its own right for the premium game.

"This is a very exciting time for me," he says. "If this gets popular it could mean hundreds of thousands, or even millions of downloads. This app could bring chess to an amazing number of people."

You can find the Learn Chess app by clicking here.