ChessTastic Beta for Android APK

Description

ChessTastic

is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess. It is based on, and a continuation of the incredible work done by several people, as stated below.

Dark Knight

, by darktemplar824, is an open-source GPLv3 Honeycomb-optimized fork of the Droidfish chess engine, an Android interface to the

stockfish

chess engine.

Droidfish

is developed by Peter sterlund at http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/ as a similar application to Dark Knight for Android phones. It is also licensed under the GPLv3.

Stockfish

is an open source chess engine, developed by Tord Romstad, Joona Kiiski and Marco Costalba and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. The program originated from another open source program by Romstad named

Glaurung

.

Features

* Opening book* Unlimited undo/redo* Copy/paste to/from clipboard* Analysis mode* Two player mode* Computer vs computer mode* Edit board* Support for PGN variations* Multiplayer support coming soon!

Hints

* In game mode, long press chess board to activate copy/paste menu.* In edit board mode, long press chess board to activate edit menu.* Scroll left/right on the chess board to undo/redo moves.* If the game contains multiple variations, scroll up/down on the chess board to go to the previous/next variation.

Analysis

ChessTastic can analyze games to find better alternatives to moves. By using hints described above, players can optimize strategies and use the computer to improve their play. Analysis can be activated in Settings.

Opening book

ChessTastic contains a small internal opening book. If you want to use a larger book, you can configure ChessTastic to use a

polyglot

book file:1. Create a directory called

ChessTastic

on the SD card folder.2. Copy one or more polyglot book files to the

ChessTastic

directory.3. From the program menu, activate the

Select opening book

function.4. Select the opening book file you want to use.

PGN files

ChessTastic can load games from PGN files. To use this feature:1. Create a directory called

ChessTastic/pgn

on the SD card folder.2. Copy one or more PGN files to the

ChessTastic/pgn

directory.3. Long press the chess board and select

Load game from PGN file

.4. Select the file, then the game within the file you want to load.

License

GNU GPL v3

Developers

*

Stockfish

is developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski.*

Droidfish

is developed by Peter sterlund. (http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/)*

Dark Knight

is a Honeycomb fork of Droidfish. Its source is available at SourceForge.net.*

ChessTastic

is a Lollipop fork of Droidfish and Dark Knight. Sources available at https://code.google.com/p/material-chess-android/ . Do help me out if possible!Recent changes:Happy New Year! This is the first release. Enjoy the most beautiful Chess game ever for Android!Content rating: Everyone