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Chess for Android 2.9

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I just released version 2.9 of Chess for Android, available from the Android market or as direct download.
New features include:
  • built-in engine improvements
  • various UCI improvements
    • engine tournament feature (with resume option)
    • option settings saved per engine
    • more flexible uninstall or clear options window
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Since the last release, various improvements have been made:
  • UCI and XBoard/WinBoard engines import
  • infinite analysis
  • pondering
  • opening test suite
  • improved setup (endgame tablebases, threads, etc.)
  • position setup (upcoming)
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I just released version 3.1.5 of Chess for Android, available either at the Android market (Google Play) or as direct download.

New features include:
  • Ability to filter PGN games (on player, event, ECO, ELO rating range, or result)
  • Automatically re-import last UCI/Xboard engine on exit-re-entry of application
  • Finger sweep left or right as alternative game navigation
  • Minor improvements in setup position feature
Also see some screenshots.
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I have a dream

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I have a dream that one day I'll play Chess for Android with Hiarcs engine...
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Version 4.0 of Chess for Android focuses on localization and internationalization. All user facing text (except the chess notation and engine messages) has been translated into the following languages.
  • English (the default)
  • Dutch (translated myself)
  • German (many thanks to Philip Stutz)
  • Hebrew (many thanks to Haran Talmon)
  • Polish (many thanks to Michal Kaczmarek)
  • Spanish (many thanks to Krizia Lopez)
  • Swedish (many thanks to Anton Hansson)
If you spot any mistakes, if you would like to see support for other languages or, even better, if you would like to help with further localization, please drop me a private note.
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I just released version 4.0.5 of Chess for Android, available through Google Play or as direct download.
This release mainly extends localization to more languages, but it also provides a new feature: copying the engine analysis to the clipboard.

The following languages are now supported:

* Afrikaans (af)
* Chinese (zh)
* Dutch (nl)
* English (en)
* French (fr)
* German (de)
* Hebrew (iw)
* Italian (it)
* Polish (pl)
* Portuguese (pt-br)
* Russian (ru)
* Spanish (es)
* Swedish (sv)
* Turkish (tr)

Many thanks to my translation team: Vinícius Angiolucci, Lucas Braesch, A.N. Bürümcekci, Panna Chowdhury, Anton Hansson, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, Michal Kaczmarek, Dara Koper, Morgan Lombard, Krizia Lopez, Dennis Prochko, Philip Stutz, Haran Talmon, Ted Wong, and last but certainly not least C.R. Zamana!
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Post by angalene James »

Great!!!!!! I will download the latest version and like to play chess a lot. Thanks for sharing the information.
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Mobilia chess is a good one
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Post by gemger »

I am playing this. It’s prettty cool and advanced when comparing to the other chess android games.
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Old Android?

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You should update to the Latest Android!!
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aartbik wrote:I just released version 3.1.5 of Chess for Android, available either at the Android market (Google Play) or as direct download.

New features include:
  • Ability to filter PGN games (on player, event, ECO, ELO rating range, or result)
  • Automatically re-import last UCI/Xboard engine on exit-re-entry of application
  • Finger sweep left or right as alternative game navigation
  • Minor improvements in setup position feature
Also see some screenshots.
Chess for Android has very inadequate time controls ...You need to implement all sorts of tournament and increment time controls .Also the default engine is very weak ....I don't recall playing against something this weak ever on a modern platform.......
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RadioSmall wrote:Chess for Android has very inadequate time controls ...You need to implement all sorts of tournament and increment time controls .Also the default engine is very weak.
Thanks for your feedback. The built-in engine is supposed to be fun for the beginning chess player. More advanced UCI and XBoard engines can be imported for stronger play.

And yes, time controls other than fixed time per move have been on my todo list for a very long time now.... :-)
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Post by JaySimpson »

This is really interesting. I love to play this game.
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