Mobialia Chess

The best mobile app for chess lovers! only for Android, and with lots of possibilities.

Changelog page

Reduced web version of the app (only offline)

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 (you can also undo/redo moves by making a gesture from left to right/right to left on any unused part of the screen)
  • 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
  • Five piece sets (Merida, Leipzig, Berlin, Jumbo and Staunton) and five board styles (Blue, Brown, Gray, Marble and Wood)
  • Shows a dot on the side to move (the point is of the moving side color) and can show board coordinates
  • 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), also has an option to hide captured pieces
  • Speak moves, checks and game results
  • Different sounds for moves, captures and checks, also vibration
  • Option to keep the screen on when playing
  • And works on almost any Android device (also on Android-X86!)

It is on sale at the Android Market by only 1.99 EUR (+18% VAT if you are buying from the European Community). There is also a free version called “Mobialia Chess (Ads)” supported by Ads with the same features.

It’s proudly powered by our Open Source Chess Engine Carballo, so any comments about its gameplay will be welcome.

Support

Please send to chess@mobialia.com all the comments, bugs and feature request.

If you’re having problems with downloads, installs, refunds, payments, or Android Market access, please contact the Android Market team through the Android Market Help Center and user forum.

Translators

You can contribute with Mobialia Chess translations at http://www.mobialia.com/translate/chess/. Those are our translators:

  • Portuguese: Nilson De Lourenço
  • German: Axel Gaiser, Jan Grüner and Jakob Piechl

Internet Chess Club

We are official providers ot the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We developed the Official ChessClub Android App with lots of features focused on this excellent chess server. If you want this app to play on ICC you can get the official app FREE!.