ChessTastic™ Beta 1.2
Free Version
Publisher Description
ChessTastic™ Beta - The most beautiful Chess game ever. Uses Stockfish Chess Engine.
ChessTastic is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess. It is based on the opensource app Dark Knight and uses the Stockfish Chess Engine.
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 Österlund. (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://github.com/AvijitGhosh82/material-chess-android . Do help me out if possible!
About ChessTastic™ Beta
ChessTastic™ Beta is a free app for Android published in the Strategy & War Games list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment.
The company that develops ChessTastic™ Beta is AVIJIT GHOSH. The latest version released by its developer is 1.2. This app was rated by 2 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.5.
To install ChessTastic™ Beta on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-06-10 and was downloaded 67 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the ChessTastic™ Beta as malware as malware if the download link to com.nemesis.materialchess is broken.
How to install ChessTastic™ Beta on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the ChessTastic™ Beta is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by ChessTastic™ Beta will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- ChessTastic™ Beta will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
