📈Last 7 days+238 installs — 20% slower than the week before (+296) · 37/day since Sep 25
🏆Among Board gamestop 16% by installs gained this week (11002 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 4.55 since Sep 25
🛠Updatesactively updated · updated 8 days ago · every ~43 days (2 updates tracked)
Installs since launch
+1,833 installs
· +17 ratings
since Sep 25
Update history
2.20.5Nov 5, 2026 · seen Nov 13, 2026
• New grid view for My Books and the Store, showing larger book covers. Switch between grid and list anytime from the ⋮ menu.<br>• Smarter Store search: type several words in any order and get books matching all of them.<br>• More piece styles, including Wood and Merida, with a preview of each style in the Pieces dialog.<br>• Performance and stability improvements.
2.20.3Nov 5, 2026 · seen Sep 28, 2026
* Improved board size in Tactics Trainer mode on Tablets
2.20Sep 23, 2026 · seen Sep 25, 2026
* Added animation to the pieces when they move on the board
Forward Chess - Book Reader is a board game by Forward Chess with 100,000+ downloads (about 117K estimated). +238 installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.6 from 1.3K ratings. Released Aug 15, 2013. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.
From the store listing: “Forward Chess is an interactive chess book reader. Read the book, play through book lines, AND try your OWN lines. The embedded Stockfish engine, one of the strongest chess playing engines on the planet, can be invoked at any time to provide an evaluation of the book’s moves or an evaluation of your own variations.…”
