Stockfish for iPad

[Tord]

Now available.

[thorstenczub]

very good.

[bhandelman]

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!

[Macarel]

Can android users expect the same app soon?

[tano-urayoan]

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

[Tord]

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.

[Macarel]

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!

[thorstenczub]

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

[Macarel]

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

[Swaminathan]

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!