OpenChess

Now available.

very good.

Fantastic. Not only the best free chess app but easily rivals the commercial ones. The board looks fantastic, I'll be messing with this thing all night, thanks!

Can android users expect the same app soon?

For android there is droidfish, it was compiled by a different person so you should ask him.

Macarel wrote:Can android users expect the same app soon?

No, at least not in the near future. Of course we would like to offer an Android version, but we're just a small group of amateurs with limited time for programming, and none of us currently own an Android phone. Supporting every platform is - unfortunately - not realistic at the moment.

But as tano-urayoan points out above, there is an Android app named Droidfish by Peter Österlund, which uses the Stockfish engine.

Well... droidfish doesn't seem to have the same stunning graphics as the iphone app but I'll give it a go if I ever receive that damn chinese android tablet I ordered like, on the 30th of october...

Thanks for the answers!

Macarel wrote:Well... droidfish doesn't seem to have the same stunning graphics as the iphone app but I'll give it a go if I ever receive that damn chinese android tablet I ordered like, on the 30th of october...

Thanks for the answers!

droidfish for android runs on 2 cores (if you have a 2 core cpu)
and is doing 220.000 NPS with stockfish...

to me droidfish is a very professional program. the GUI is very perfect.
i have no idea what the ipad offers, but i doubt it is that perfect like droidfish.

droidfish aka stockfish on:

Palm Pre 500mhz (Webos1.4.5):				~8.000 NPS
APAD Rockchip 600mhz (android1.5):			~10.000 NPS
Palm Pre oc. 800mhz (Webos1.4.5):			~13.000 NPS
ZT-180 10,2" Pad :					~15.345 NPS
Palm Pre oc. 1Ghz (Webos1.4.5):				~16.000 NPS
Iphone4 800 Mhz (IOS):					~80.000 NPS
HTC HD2 with 1Ghz (android2.2):				~100.000 NPS
Samsung Galaxy Tab:					~108,500 NPS
Advent vega tegra2 1Ghz (android2.2):			~131.700 NPS
Dell Streak (Steves 1.4.5, OC 1150Mhz):			~133.000 NPS. 
Netbook Intel Atom N270 1.6 Ghz (Windows XP):		~143.000 NPS
Advent vega tegra2 1Ghz 2cores (android2.2): 		~220.500 NPS

Laptop T7600 2.2Ghz 1 core, (windows vista64):		1.000.000 NPS

Ok, received my tablet today and droidfish was the first app I downloaded. I was not disappointed! Thanks for the advice!

Hi Tord, I wish there was an arrow key at the bottom to take back moves, go forward. It's bit of an effort to click "Move" tab and then click take back when I want to go back several moves.

Other than that it's of top notch!