Chess Cheater 2.0

ChessCheater 2.0 is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess.

Features

* CHEAT MODE

* 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 cheat mode, select a computer difficulty under Settings. Under Game Mode you can select the color of your opponent, who you will play. To make his moves, plug in your headset and inconspicuously press the Play/Pause button to select a piece and to move it.

E.g.:

Move from D2 to D3:

Press 4 times

Wait 1 second

Press 2 times

Wait 1 second

Press 4 times

Wait 1 second

Press 3 times

After 1 second the piece will move in case its a valid move.

If you press more than 8 times without waiting more than 1 second, the whole selection starts from the beginning. Now the computer will move. Its your turn to cheat. Follow the move which is displayed and given on your headphones! WIN!

* 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.

ChessCheater 2.0 is based on, and a continuation of the incredible work done by several people, as stated below.

Dark Knight , by darktemplar824, is an open-source GPLv3 Honeycomb-optimized fork of the Droidfish chess engine, an Android interface to the stockfish chess engine.

Droidfish is developed by Peter Österlund at http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/ as a similar application to Dark Knight for Android phones. It is also licensed under the GPLv3.

Stockfish is an open source chess engine, developed by Tord Romstad, Joona Kiiski and Marco Costalba and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. The program originated from another open source program by Romstad named Glaurung.

Analysis

ChessCheater 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

ChessCheater contains a small internal opening book. If you want to use a larger book, you can configure ChessCheater to use a polyglot book file:

1. Create a directory called ChessCheater on the SD card folder.

2. Copy one or more polyglot book files to the ChessCheater directory.

3. From the program menu, activate the Select opening book function.

4. Select the opening book file you want to use.

PGN files

ChessCheater 2.0 can load games from PGN files. To use this feature:

1. Create a directory called ChessCheater/pgn on the SD card folder.

2. Copy one or more PGN files to the ChessCheater/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.

* ChessCheater is a Lollipop fork of Droidfish and Dark Knight.