![]() ![]() Chess board looks a little bit small on my 4” screen.Ambiguous menus are sometimes hard to navigate.Overall versatility of colors and themes.Ability to load/save/annotate “pgn” games.Very strong Stockfish Chess Engine with well adjustable playing strength.I was running it on the dual CPU phone so we can expect the search depth to be even greater. The official website claims that DroidFish can search more than 15 ply deep on 1GHz CPU. I have played against DroidFish on the 51% of its strength and have posted the game below. To start a new game you need to click the ‘M’ button, I had difficulties figuring that one out, looking in the menus didn’t yield much results. Here are some screenshots of the Droidfish app: starting screen, options and middle of the game position. The app supports various playing modes, you can play against a computer, you can play against a friend or you can watch two computers fight for the title of the strongest one. ![]() Therefore, this app can be used as a portable analysis tool, similarly to a Pocket Fritz. Another useful feature of DroidFish is ability to setup a position and to give a computer analysis for it. However, if needed the app can use external opening book, which can be stored in the phones internal memory as well as on a SD card. It is also possible to load previously saved game, review and annotate it.ĭroidFish has a build in opening book, which should be enough under most playing situations. A very important function that was not available on Chess Free is the ability to save played games into pgn files and even include comments for the moves. For example it is possible to show the computer thinking lines, setup thinking time, enable time increment added after each move, display book hints, adjust pieces and squares’ colors and font sizes, etc. The options menu is pretty extensive and has variety of adjustments. A neat thing about engine’s strength that it’s very flexible and adjustable with the increments of 0.1 %, from 0 to 100%. The only things you need to specify are the playing strength of the engine, color and time. When you open up a game it’s ready to play. It is hard to precisely estimate the playing strength of Droid Fish, but I can certainly say that it’s way stronger than a Master’s. The application is powered by a very powerful Stock Fish engine, which is a derivative of a commercially available all-famous Rybka. However, what DroidFish does and does really well is playing chess. ![]() This program does not have any fancy things like a high texture wooden board or special sounds effects like those of Chess Free. Today I will do a review of one of the strongest free chess programs available for android smartphones: Droid Fish. ![]()
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