Droidfish, thanks to the developer ...

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

after a longer break, animated from different chess friends, I install Droidfish on a new smartphone I got (HTC Desire X). For me more as enough what I can do with this phone. I read about Stockfish (one of my favorits in SWCR times) for Android in combination with Droidfish GUI.

I really great software.
In the past I used Pocket PC programs on a windows based OS for Handys. But this Handy is very old and not up-to-date.

On my smartphone I can see - after the first moves - around 135.000 nps. This is really a lot for an 1Ghz Dual Core Smartphone processor.

Perhaps later in this year I will buy the comming soon S4 8-core smartphone from Samsung but so far as Android newcomer I have really enough with Droidfish and my analyzes from old interesting gm games.

Thanks again to the developers for this great software. Perhaps for myself a good start to computer chess again, I don't know.

Today I am playing a game with 40 moves in 60 minutes and I lost in 62 moves after a hard fight. I had no chance in the endgame but with a bit look I can hold the middlegame

Best
Frank

PS: It's fantastic to see that in times today we can get so interesting software without to pay a lot of money. That was my big interest in all the years computerchess with different things I do here. Now I am older and older and I know that the time I gave this hobby in the past was right.

[JuLieN]

Hi Frank Good to see the passion back!

Have you tried Aart Bik's Chess4Droid? You can install dozens of engines for it, and even run engines tournament directly on the phone!

[styx]

Droidfish is one of my favorite free Android Apps too (next to Mobialia Chess).

But there is one thing I am really hoping the author to change in the future: it's sometimes hard to choose ("mark") a piece for a move. I don't really know why. It would be so awesome if the author let the user actually "pick up" the pieces like it's done in mobialia.

This aside, it's totally awesome. And with every update it's getting better

[kinderchocolate]

Hi Frank Good to see the passion back!

Have you tried Aart Bik's Chess4Droid? You can install dozens of engines for it, and even run engines tournament directly on the phone!

Has Aart Bik renamed his app?

[JuLieN]

Hi Frank Good to see the passion back!

Have you tried Aart Bik's Chess4Droid? You can install dozens of engines for it, and even run engines tournament directly on the phone!

Has Aart Bik renamed his app?

Ok, to be exact the name is "Chess For Android".