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ChessTastic™ Beta

LiveAVIJIT GHOSH1 app · 7.2K installsStrategyFreecom.nemesis.materialchess

The most beautiful Chess game ever. Uses Stockfish Chess Engine.

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Total installs
7,188
exact · Play shows 5,000+
Installs / day
0
since last crawl
Rating
4.6★
219 ratings · 9 reviews
Released
31 Dec 2014
11.8y ago
Last update
30 Dec 2015
vBeta 1.2 · 10.8y ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
7K7.8K8.5K9.3K10K10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct
7K7.8K8.5K9.3K10K10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct

Installs per day · last 90 days

00.30.50.8111 Oct12 Oct12 Oct11 Oct: 012 Oct: 0

Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • No data shared with third parties
  • No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

2 in 2 groups
2 Sensitive0 Notable0 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive1

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive1

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
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!

What's new

Beta 1.2: Fixed chessboard square colors. Sorry for the delay, had been busy.

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