ChessTastic™ Beta

ChessTastic™ Beta Free Game

Rated 4.40/5 (175) —  Free Android application by AVIJIT GHOSH

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About ChessTastic™ Beta

ChessTastic is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess. It is based on, and a continuation of the incredible work done by several people, as stated below.


Dark Knight , by darktemplar824, is an open-source GPLv3 Honeycomb-optimized fork of the Droidfish chess engine, an Android interface to the stockfish chess engine.


Droidfish is developed by Peter Österlund at http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/ as a similar application to Dark Knight for Android phones. It is also licensed under the GPLv3.


Stockfish is an open source chess engine, developed by Tord Romstad, Joona Kiiski and Marco Costalba and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. The program originated from another open source program by Romstad named Glaurung.


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!

How to Download / Install

Download and install ChessTastic™ Beta version Beta on your Android device!
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Android package: com.nemesis.materialchess, download ChessTastic™ Beta.apk

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Game History & Updates

What's Changed
Beta 1.2: Fixed chessboard square colors. Sorry for the delay, had been busy.
More downloads  ChessTastic™ Beta reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
More downloads  ChessTastic™ Beta reached 500 - 1 000 downloads

What are users saying about ChessTastic™ Beta

X70%
by X####:

Chess board colour , piece style are not so good...Stockfish 8 and Komodo 10 ,these two chess engines need to be added to analyze the games....option need to share the games with other apps ... opening book names with variation should also be noted in the movelist area..

B70%
by B####:

Really nice material design chess app. I'd bump my score to to a 5/5 if the dev allowed the option to change the color scheme to something a little more muted... The current colors are a bit hard on the eyes. Gray is alright though.

X70%
by X####:

I just love the material design, my only problem is that when I play two player whoever faces the other side gets a headache since the board is opposite to them.

X70%
by X####:

Superb App With My Fav. Light & Orange Chess Board. Excellent Features Specially Stick 'Flip'. Chess Pieces Should Be Alfa Or Small Alfa. Sound Can Be Better With 'Click' Or 'Khatak'. Also Not Finding 'Save Match In PGN Format' Feature. Rest Is Out Of The World. I Wish Nothing But The Best For You. Good Luck !!!

X70%
by X####:

it's not that good it should change it's graphic design

D70%
by D####:

needs UCI engine support and OEX

X70%
by X####:

I've tried them all and this is the best

X70%
by X####:

Free... What else?

X70%
by X####:

Nice app

E70%
by E####:

Good.

E70%
by E####:

It's about time we had a great looking chess app like this

B70%
by B####:

Awesome

X70%
by X####:

Like magnus application

B70%
by B####:

Nice :)

X70%
by X####:

The options and features are good just the appearance of board and pieces so bad!

N70%
by N####:

In the next update can you make 1 of the features that it can ponder and all so that you can put other chess engines in to it

P70%
by P####:

Colours are too bright..plz add some light ones.Its so hard to look at board for more than 20min.Add some transitions even.The pieces are jumping directly to square.

G70%
by G####:

Not too many huge features but it looks amazing. And light!

W70%
by W####:

You need to keep updating this game. Add more features, like PvP or online

J70%
by J####:

This is only app needed..how to create pgn of game through chess tastic

X70%
by X####:

It does exactly what you need and its no hassle no ads.

X70%
by X####:

Looks great

P70%
by P####:

It lags horribly bad. I can't even move a piece. I'll tap on the piece and the square doesn't highlight. When it does, it does so almost 10 seconds after the fact.

K70%
by K####:

I've been looking for a chess app that also doesn't look like it's from the medieval period for ages and I've finally found this. Looks great, nice set of features enough for a beginner like me. Great work.

O70%
by O####:

Opening book doesn't work. No multy processing?

M70%
by M####:

Cool looking and well designed. Board colours could be a little lighter. Looking forward to multiplayer. Thanks for such a great chess app.

D70%
by D####:

Looking forward to the multiplayer as it is at Beta currently! Great job

M70%
by M####:

Amazing work, bro!

U70%
by U####:

Good

Y70%
by Y####:

It lags horribly bad. I can't even move a piece. I'll tap on the piece and the square doesn't highlight. When it does, it does so almost 10 seconds after the fact.

B70%
by B####:

Needs online multiplayer

I70%
by I####:

It lags horribly bad. I can't even move a piece. I'll tap on the piece and the square doesn't highlight. When it does, it does so almost 10 seconds after the fact.

V70%
by V####:

Made by Indian... Excellent!!

U70%
by U####:

Awesome Macha diya....

Y70%
by Y####:

Great app

H70%
by H####:

It's about time we had a great looking chess app like this

M70%
by M####:

Cool looking and well designed. Board colours could be a little lighter. Could not load pgn files, as my Huawei phone does not have sd/pgn, as this is under local/sd. Would be great if I could define the path for folders Otherwise 5 stars. Thanks for such a great chess app.

U70%
by U####:

It's good

U70%
by U####:

Awesome yaar....

E70%
by E####:

Attractive


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