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App that identifies moves as Excellent/Good/Mistakes/Blunders

I really like the analysis tool on chess.com that processes your games and identifies the Excellent and Good moves, as well as Mistakes and Blunders. It also proposes which move should have been played. I realize it's probably based on a drop or…
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Phone apps for playing chess variants

A group of local friends and I have become fairly engrossed in playing a certain chess variant over the last few years. We play on a regular basis; we've coded a program that allows us to play online, and we play over a board in person. However,…
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Why does Stockfish website offer many apps to download?

I want to get a strong engine to practice while I'm not home. Look at: http://stockfishchess.org/download, we see a list of apps to download for the Stockfish engine. Why are there three apps to downloads for the same engine? Which one should I…
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Compile StockFish optimized for arm64-v8a

I cloned StockFish from GitHub and did a make inside the src folder and found that supported archs are: x86-64-bmi2 > x86 64-bit with pext support (also enables SSE4) x86-64-modern > x86 64-bit with popcnt support (also…
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What are good Android apps to learn chess from scratch?

Knowing nothing but the rules of chess, I'd like to start learning a bit more. Some kind of tutorial app for my Android smartphone would be perfect as I can use it anywhere. The app should give theoretical explanations of basic concepts and thinking…
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Implement a chess app for Android with Stockfish

I want to implement a chess app for Android with Stockfish. I downloaded the Stockfish binary source code, but I don't know how to use engine Please tell me how to use Stockfish engine for programming.
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Is there an Android viewer that understands international language comments in PGN?

I have a PGN file, in which I can view non-English (Cyrillic) comments on my PC in Chessbase or in Notepad++, but all Android apps (playchess, masterchess, scid on the go, droidfish) I tried instead show garbage for the comments. Is there an app…
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Chess clock android app

I play chess using my board with friends from time to time. I don't have a clock. Since I don't play chess that much with friends, I'd rather not to buy a clock, I mostly play online. Lucky me I found some android app that does the trick, I install…
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Is there a FICS android app?

I tried using this app but when I try to play online it keeps saying game over, draw something like that, the message will be on the screen forever unless I restart my phone. and it doesn't let me play online. Is there a better app to play FICS on…
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DroidFish's rtb folder's file placed somewhere else

DroidFish has an rtb folder that should be used for wdl and dtz syzygy endgame tables. For the six pieces tables it represents roughly 80+60Gb and as I my phone has only 64Gb as internal memory, I would like to put the files on a SD card and make…
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Is there an Android chess GUI library

I am looking for an open source chess gui library for Android that I can use in an app so that I don't need to take care of the GUI engine, but can focus on the logic behind it. I have searched for solutions but not found anything. Does something…
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Looking for a basic assessment

I'm looking for an app that after I play a game of chess (or 3) will tell me if I'm a beginner or intermediate. Not looking for an app to teach me or to assess the game move by move. Does anyone know the best chess app (for Android) for this?
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Pawn structure search in Scid on the Go

In scid on the go on android, latest version, I would like to search for a given pawn structure in the current database. In "search" then "search current board" the closest to "search a pawn structure" would be "same material, all pawns on same…
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Android apps to create chess videos

Are there any free Android apps to create chess videos? They must allow us to draw arrows on the board, highlighting squares or pieces as we discuss the game.
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E-Ink/Digital Paper for Display

I like to play with my favourite android chess app on a tablet. On the other hand I like the sun in my room. I the sun is too strong, then up to now I go to a dark area in my room. Is there a way to solve this? Is there a way to show the chess board…
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