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playjunior
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Engines/GUI for Android?

Post by playjunior » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:13 pm

Does anyone know any GUI/engines for Android phones? Free is strongly preferred. Thanks!

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Re: Engines/GUI for Android?

Post by royb » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:52 pm

The two that I've played a bit with (not much though) are both called "Chess". One is by Aart J.C. Bik and the other is Jeroen Carolus. You can of course find them in the Android Market. This latter one has both a free and paid version. The first one has a free version only from what I can tell.

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Re: Engines/GUI for Android?

Post by shiv » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:25 pm

The strongest I found a while back is "chessmaster". It does take a while to move at the higher levels though and is not master strength but maybe close. Guess, this depends on speed on android, so "chessmaster" will play stronger on newer phones. This is one of the reasons I went for the iphone after testing out the android.

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David Dahlem
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Re: Engines/GUI for Android?

Post by David Dahlem » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:40 pm

http://www.mobialia.com/apps/chess/

There is a free version (with limitations)

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Re: Engines/GUI for Android?

Post by petero2 » Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:17 pm

playjunior wrote:Does anyone know any GUI/engines for Android phones? Free is strongly preferred. Thanks!
You could try DroidFish. See http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/index.html or download directly from Android market.

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Re: Engines/GUI for Android?

Post by Peter Skinner » Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:35 pm

petero2 wrote:
playjunior wrote:Does anyone know any GUI/engines for Android phones? Free is strongly preferred. Thanks!
You could try DroidFish. See http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/index.html or download directly from Android market.
I use Droidfish on my Acer Liquid E 1, and it is quite good.

Only thing that bugs me is it completely locks up the device from time to time. (after about 20 games or so however)

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