About 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"...
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 (Certabo, Chessnut, ChessUp, DGT, House of Staunton, 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.php
PERMISSION NOTES:
You can freely disable permissions you don't 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/Chessnut Air, which requires a Bluetooth LE scan
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Chess for Android since it was posted on our website on 2015-04-25 03:00:00.
The latest version is 6.8.6 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:38:05. See below the changes in each version.
Chess for Android version 6.8.6
Updated At: 2023-12-09
Changes: Added support for House of Staunton Sensory Board (USB/BT)
Chess for Android version 6.8.2
Updated At: 2023-10-19
Changes: Support for BryghtLabs ChessUp electronic chessboard
Fixed bug in ChessUp set up board position feature
Chess for Android version 6.8.0
Updated At: 2023-10-07
Changes: Support for BryghtLabs ChessUp electronic chessboard
Chess for Android version 6.7.4
Updated At: 2023-09-17
Changes: Upgrade to API 34
Chess for Android version 6.7.1
Updated At: 2023-06-17
Changes: Migrated to mandatory API 31
Added support for Tabutronic Sentio
Fixed bug in crash on missing bluetooth permission
Chess for Android version 6.3.1
Updated At: 2020-12-06
Changes: Fixed file visibility under API 29
**** SAD NOTE on ANROID 10 ****
New security restrictions of API 29 (mandatory for updates) no longer allow running arbitrary binaries, only pre-packaged binaries (see my thread at http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75987). Thanks for your kind understanding, this is out of my control!
Chess for Android version 6.2.1
Updated At: 2020-12-01
Changes: Adaptive icons
Bug fix in resume from tournament
Chess for Android version 6.2.0
Updated At: 2019-10-10
Changes: * Fast queen promotion on electronic chessboard
Chess for Android version 6.1.9
Updated At: 2019-08-14
Changes: Electronic chessboard improvements (fast castling and en-passant; LEDs control)
Chess for Android version 6.1.7
Updated At: 2019-05-28
Changes: Improved UCI engine options setup dialog
Disclaimer
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