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Mobialia Chess

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   Rating: 4.6 (610)    Cost: $2.99    Downloads: 10,000 - 50,000
Mobialia Chess Android Brain & PuzzleMobialia Chess Android Brain & Puzzle

The best app for chess lovers: Play against AI or online at FICS or ICC

Play against AI

* Selectable ELO Levels to adjust playing strength, from 500 to 2100, on 50 ELO points steps
* Selectable time per move: changing the ELO and the time per move, lots of difficulty levels can be selected
* Opening book with more than 30.000 positions: ensures variated funny games
* Can undo/redo all moves
* Send PGN by email: This way, you can analyze later your games on your PC
* Graphical setup board, also can edit position’s FEN notation
* On closing, saves the current game and it is loaded when the application is restarted

Play Online

* Play on internet at freechess.org (FICS), at chessclub.com (ICC) or at JaqueMate.org
* Play as guest or as a registered user (on ICC or JaqueMate.org only as registered user)
* Seek/offer match rated and unrated
* View seeks posted by other users. Can sort seek list by username, rating or game time
* Takeback, draw, abort, resign and rematch options when playing
* Console to see server output and to send commands, also for chatting with other users
* Play, Finger and Observe, can also observe LectureBot on FICS or play ProblemBot/TrainingBot on ICC
* Examine games (works with puzzlebot or the “exl” command to examine your last played game)
* Timeseal (FICS) and Timestamp (ICC): avoids lag problems
* Premove option: You can introduce movements on your opponent's turn
* Option to confirm moves before sending to the server. Forward and Backward buttons are converted on Confirm/Cancel buttons
* Supports wild chess variants: Atomic, Losers, Suicide and Chess960

Chess Problems

* 2900 chess problems to solve looking for the best moves: problems collected by Uwe Auerswald, from Germany
* Selectable problem difficult (Easy, Medium and Hard Problems)

PGN Browser

Simple PGN browser, allows you to open PGN files from SD card or from your email

And with the Best Interface

* 2D/3D board
* Clean, simple and intuitive interface (options appear after pressing the “MENU” key)
* Move by dragging and dropping the piece with useful guide lines
* Also move by tapping the origin and the destiny squares or with the trackball
* Portrait and Landscape mode
* Shows legal moves (as yellow traslucid squares)
* Highlights last move (with a yellow arrow or a coloured squarem, can be configured with a settings option), also move hints (as a green arrow) after a request in the menu
* Many piece sets and board styles
* Shows a dot on the side to move and can show board coordinates
* The material gauge indicates the material advantage using this piece values: Pawn=1 Knight=3 Bishop=3 Rook=5 Queen=9. Click on the gauge to show/hide the captured pieces difference
* Shows captured pieces advantage for each one of the sides (as an example if black captured 3 pawns and whites 2, it shows an advantage of 1 white pawn for blacks)
* Speak moves, checks and game results
* Different sounds for moves, captures and checks, also vibration
* Option to keep the screen on while playing

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Comments:

Works great, very competitive to play against, and I like the layout and graphics. ...
Mike - 2010-07-22
Works great, very competitive to play against, and I like the layout and graphics. Great job !!

Great game!! Would like there to be classic time controls, but love the play ...
Thomas - 2011-01-01
Great game!! Would like there to be classic time controls, but love the play AND the FICS support. Well done.

Fun to play, but sometimes makes awful moves even at highest level, and 'send ...
Nick - 2010-10-04
Fun to play, but sometimes makes awful moves even at highest level, and 'send game as pgn' doesn't work; files are blank.

Best money I've spent in a long time. Has improved my game and provided ...
mattg - 2010-09-27
Best money I've spent in a long time. Has improved my game and provided me with 100's of hours of entertaining games vs people online.

Great app which I use for observing the main tourneys online on ICC. But, ...
Tommy - 2011-02-03
Great app which I use for observing the main tourneys online on ICC. But, it needs a better way to search for the games you want to observe.

Bad interface...Hard to choose a person and there is no any kind of sort ...
Vova - 2010-12-04
Bad interface...Hard to choose a person and there is no any kind of sort list. No GUI and ability to switch accounts easier. Uninstalled.

Definitely the best chess app I've used on android! Nice clean and easy to ...
Michael - 2011-08-30
Definitely the best chess app I've used on android! Nice clean and easy to use controls and menus. Has the cleanest interface by far.

I like the App. However i am not comfortable playing it rated game cuz ...
Sean - 2010-08-18
I like the App. However i am not comfortable playing it rated game cuz often im in the middle of a game waiting for an opponent to move indefinitely..

Good gets better
Jose - 2011-08-10
Awesome app and it keeps getting better with every update!

My favorite chess app. Love it. Definitely worth the dough. Why automatic queen ...
Grant - 2010-02-27
My favorite chess app. Love it. Definitely worth the dough. Why automatic queen upon pawn promotion? We need a choice there.

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