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[Daniel Shawul]

Hi
My app is available in the play store now. It can play many chess variants (may be upto 50). AlienBoard. What you can do:

a) Observe / Play on FICS chess server. You can connect to other servers with similar protocol by installing it as an 'ICS' engine, with ip and port.

b) Play against Scorpio, NebiyuXs (chess, go , reversi, checkers, amazons, and alien).

c) Match winboard engines with each other

d) Broadcast games from your phone

Earilier I had a java GUI that does all those things so I decided to port it to android. Except for (a) the features are not tested well on the android platform, so there are bugs. Also this is my first app so please let me know how I can improve the user experience. I expect people from this board to figure out stuff by themselves but can't say anything about the 'general user'. I have not made a lot of effort in that regard.

I need a logo of size (512x512) very badly. The current one looks bad and I appreciate it if anyone here can make one for me. The theme could be anything that mixes "Alien" with "Chess"

Tips:
1) FICS: type in g & enter to login as a guest. The observe any game by typing 'o 47' for example
2) For non-FICS activities, you need to load a referee engine (NebiyuChess) to get a board display (Engines->Referee).
Then select the variant you want by again doing (Engines->Referee Options).

Thanks
Daniel
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