Chess for Android
by Aart Bik
🗂️ Brain Games
Version 6.5.5 💾 422 Kb
📅 Updated March 12, 2022
Chess application (supports third-party engines, electronic boards, online play)
Features Chess for Android
Chess for Android consists of a chess engine and a GUI.
The application accepts moves through the touch screen, trackball, or keyboard (e2e4 pushes the king pawn, e1g1 castles king side, etc.).
An optional "move coach" highlights valid user moves during input and last played engine move.
Full game navigation enables users to correct mistakes or analyze games.
Games import and export as FEN/PGN to and from the clipboard or via sharing, load and save as file, or are set up through a position editor.
A draw by stalemate, insufficient material, the fifty move rule, or threefold repetition is recognized.
The engine plays at various levels (including random, against itself in auto-play, or free-play, where the game can be used as a "magnetic chessboard").
The user can play either side and, independently, view the board from the perspective of white or black.The application supports the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) and Chess Engine Communication Protocol (WinBoard and XBoard), which allows users to play against more powerful third party engines or even play tournaments between engines.
Engines are imported in Android Open Exchange format (OEX), in Android Chessbase compatible format, or directly from SD card.
Engine setup features time control, pondering, infinite analysis, hash tables, multiple threads, endgame tablebases, and opening test suites.The application connects to an external electronic chessboard (DGT, Certabo, or Millennium) and supports online play on FICS (Free Internet Chess Server) or ICC (Internet Chess Club).Online manual at:https://www.aartbik.com/android_manual.phpPERMISSION NOTES:You can freely disable permissions you dont want to grant, the rest of the application will continue to work:+ Storage (Files and Media): only required when you want to load and save games to SD Card+ Location: only required if you want to connect to DGT Pegasus, which requires a Bluetooth LE scan(1) DGT Pegasus support(2) Certabo Bluetooth support(3) engine tablebases path under API30+
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What Our Users Say
Don't just take our word for it. Here's what our users have to say about our Android app.
"What a joke. The engine keeps on resigning at the middle of the game."
Daniel Josh Mijares
"It is a chess but I always keep losing and it pauses automatically"
Anush Nikoyan
"I enjoy this a lot but there needs to be a way to disable notification everytime you let the cpu make a move or you castle etc. It bogs down the app and gets annoying fast."
R
"this shhits hard af"
Charles Grim
"Great app the engine is so strong . Also good for analysis and learning . Then how to i resign a game using the app?"
brian
"Excellent!!!"
Elliot Lakos
"It's ok"
GDV
"The best chess app I've come across by some margin. Plus no ads! To be able to offer a draw would be a slight refinement worth considering."
David Kennedy
"Their is cheating going on in the game, in chess the king can only move once and you got it where the king can move all the way down the board, and in chess you are aloud to move in front of the queen to protect her yet you made it where you are not able to you know nothing about chess as your chess game is setup to cheat and it doesn't follow the rules this chess game is not a good app for anyone their are better Chess apps then this trash of a game."
worrior of God
"Unplayablly HARD. Lowest easiest level chews me up like I'm playing Magnus. I'd love to play more, but man, losing every single game is defeating my morale. Great game. 5-stars but I think I'm uninstalling? I can't decide."
Chad Miller
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Available for Android 8.0 and above