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Chesster is the first mobile application that becomes your chesseBooks into interactive books. Simply import a book in ePub formatand Chesster will create a new and fully interactive eBook. Itallows to navigate through every movement, and also lets you see agame in automatic mode.This tool is specially useful to learn opening books andcommented games, because it can only detect full games from thebeginning. Most of the eBooks included in the EDAMI opening package(spanish) are correctly converted without the need of any changes.At startup Chesster pre-installs some book samples from EverymanChess publisher.It is not suitable to study endings or tactics, because thosediagrams usually start from a random position. Chesster can onlydetect movements in eBooks with digital format, not those ePubsgenerated from PDFs based on photocopies.The application divides the screen in two zones, one for theeBook and the other one for the chessboard and controls.You can import your non-DRM ePub files directly, or you canpreviously convert your PDF eBooks to ePub with Calibre tool(http://calibre-ebook.com/). Optionally, you canenhance the output with some ePub editor like Sigil (https://code.google.com/p/sigil/), beforeimporting it to Chesster. You can also open directly your eBooksconverted to Chesster format, which is much faster.The movements that Chesster can detect are those written in boldin algebraic notation, and it is capable to analyze movementswritten in different languages (spanish, english, french, italianand german). The movements' language can be selected for everyeBook.Although conversion usually takes a few seconds for most of theeBooks, it can take longer for books with big size. Please bepatient. Once converted, you can open it every time you want veryquickly.NOTE: This tool has been tested in several phones and tablets,but it may have some incompatibility with some particular devices.It has also been tested with a lot of different eBooks, primarilyin spanish and english, but the conversion made by Calibre is notalways readable.Keywords: chess, ebook, pdf, ePub, board, study, learning, opening,book

Chesster is the first mobile application that becomes your chesseBooks into interactive books. Simply import a book in ePub formatand Chesster will create a new and fully interactive eBook. Itallows to navigate through every movement, and also lets you see agame in automatic mode.This tool is specially useful to learn opening books andcommented games, because it can only detect full games from thebeginning. Most of the eBooks included in the EDAMI opening package(spanish) are correctly converted without the need of any changes.At startup Chesster pre-installs some book samples from EverymanChess publisher.Chesster is not suitable to study endings or tactics, becausethose diagrams usually start from a random position.The application divides the screen in two zones, one for the eBookand the other one for the chessboard and controls.You can import your non-DRM ePub files directly, or you canpreviously convert your PDF eBooks to ePub with Calibre tool(http://calibre-ebook.com/). Optionally, you canenhance the output with some ePub editor like Sigil (https://code.google.com/p/sigil/), beforeimporting it to Chesster. You can also open directly your eBooksconverted to Chesster format, which is much faster.The movements that Chesster can detect are those written in boldin algebraic notation, and it is capable to analyze movementswritten in different languages (spanish, english, french, italianand german). The movements' language can be selected for everyeBook.Although conversion usually takes a few seconds for most of theeBooks, it can take longer for books with big size. Please bepatient. Once converted, you can open it every time you want veryquickly.NOTE #1: Chesster Lite is fully functional but shows someadvertisements. To get the application without advertisements, youhave to purchase the paid version (Chesster).NOTE #2: This tool has been tested in several phones andtablets, but it may have some incompatibility with some particulardevices. It has also been tested with a lot of different eBooks,primarily in spanish and english, but the conversion made byCalibre is not always readable.Keywords: chess, ebook, pdf, ePub, board, study, book