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Mobile Chess List
This is a compilation of software and other chess tools for mobile equipment like Pocket PC´s, iPhones etc. -
Alphabetical Index
Acid Ape Chess for Android - Acid Ape Studios
Alfil for Android - Enrique Sanchez Acosta
Android Simple Chess - Europe Echecs
Arberg Chess for S60 series - Jesper Arberg
Bagatur - Chess Art for Kids (Android) - Krasimir Topchiyski
Banksia - Big Chess database for iPhone / iPad - Nguyen Pham
Beamable Chess for Palm OS / Pocket PC´s - Webfoot Technologies, Inc.
BlueChess for iPad - George Merchant
CalculonX Chess Engine - Java ME Version - Barry Smith
Caligula for Pocket PC´s - Pedro Castro Elgarresta
CEBoard for Pocket PC´s - Alain Zanchetta
Chess - Adam Berent / 3583 Bytes, Canada
Chess - Google - Jeroen Carolus
Chess - Analyze This (Pro) - Asim Pereira
Chess Apps - Optime Software LLC
ChessBase Online for Android - ChessBase GmbH
Chess Buddy for Java enabled phones - mob.org website
Chess Conquest - GameMobile.co.uk
ChessCraft for Android - Stuart A. Spence
ChessDB for iPhone / iPod touch / iPad - Owen Lin
Chess Engine Bundle for Android - Jim Ablett
Chess / Checkers / Reversi for Android - Aart J.C. Bik
Chess for phones, see "supported devices" - Odesys LLC
Chess Free for Android - AI Factory Ltd - Google
Chess Free iPhone - Optime Software
Chess Free - with coach for iPhone / iPad / iPod touch - Christophe Théron
ChessGenius mobile versions - Richard Lang
Chess PGN Master for Android - Google - Gerhard Kalab
Chess O for iPhone / iPod touch (including a library) - Matthew Purland
ChessPartner - Lokasoft
Chess Play & Learn for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Chess.com
Chess Tiger - Christophe Théron
Chess Tournament for Android - Javiolo, Spain
Critter for Android - Richard Vida
DanaSah for Pocket PC´s - Pedro Castro
Dark Knight - Android application for Honeycomb tablets - darktemplar824
Deep Chess for Android - Lachezar Balgariev
Delfi for Windows Smartphones / Pocket PC´s - Dr. Fabio Cavicchio / MSB Software
Demolito for Android - Lucas Braesch
Dinosaur Chess for iPhone / iPad / iPod touch - Universis Technology Ltd
Double Chess for Palm OS Handhelds - NonVi Games, Inc.
DroidFish - Google - Peter Österlund, Sweden
Ethereal for Android - Andy Grant
Feringa for Palm OS platforms - based on OpenChess - mjoerg
Follow Chess for Android / iPod / iPad - Google - Asim Pereira
GNU Chess - GNU Project
- GNU Chess for Android - Chua Kong-Sian / Stuart Cracraft
- GNU Chess for Sailfish OS - Linux G.net
Hawk Chess for Android - Google - Digitalhawk, U.K.
HIARCS mobile versions - Mark Uniacke
Honzovy šachy for Android - Jan Nemec
IntelliChess for Pocket PC - Intorine
iPhone gamez (including iPhone Chess) - Per Digre
Lantern Chess - Michael Ronald Adams
Mastersoft Chess - Mastersoft Mobile Solutions
Mephisto Chess M.E. - Living Mobile
Minimardi for Android - Juan Pablo Fernandez
Mobialia Chess for Android - Mobialia Project - Carballo Chess Engine
MobiChess, a classical chess game for J2ME-enabled mobile phones - Sergey Romas
Mobirix Corporation
Odesys - Odesys LLC
Olmi Chess - OlmiSoft.com
OpenChess for Palm OS - Olaf Richter
pbchess for Amazon Kindle / DX / Touch / Paperwhite - SourceForge - Sergey Vlasov
Pocket Fritz - ChessBase GmbH - no longer available
Pocket Grandmaster for Smartphones / Pocket PC´s - Frank Schneider / Kai Skibbe
Pulsar Chess - Michael Adams
Pure Chess for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Google - Ripstone Ltd
Rival Chess for Android - Chris Moreton - Google - netAdapt Ltd
Rotor - Jan Brouwer
Sakk Ingyenes (Freeware Chess) for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Tamás Kuzmics
Sayuri for Android - Ishibashi Hironori
Scid on the go - a browser for Android - Gerhard Kalab
Scid Pocket - Pascal Georges / Shane Hudson / Eric Hussold
Senior Chess for Android - Leen Ammeraal
Shogi 5 x 5 - MiniShogi for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Yoshikazu Kakinoki
Shredder mobile versions - Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
SmallChess - Ted Wong
SmartChess for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Smart Learning Inc
SparkChess Pro - Media Division SRL
Spartak Chess (based on Stockfish) for Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Dingoo A320 Native OS - Djdron
Spruce Chess for Java OS - Spruce Technologies
Stockfish - SF Team
- Analyze This Chess - Asim Pereira
- Stockfish for Android - Official Website
- Version iOS ~ iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Tord Romstad / Marco Constalba / Joona Kiiski
tChess (versions Lite and Pro) for iPhones / iPods touch - Tom Kerrigan
TeKnowMagic Chess for Pocket PC
The Chess Crazy Bishop for iOS ~ iPad / iPhone / iPod touch - Rémi Coulom / UNBALANCE Corporation
TJchess for Android - Tony Hecker
TSCP for Mobile ThinkerBoard - Pedro Castro Elgarresta
Virutor Chess for Android - Vaclav Vavra
Statements about iOS by Apple
H.G. Muller The mobile operation system iOS does not allow one process (the GUI) to invoke another (the engines). That would make it only feasible to have a Chess app if the GUI and engine are merged into a single program. But that is not compatible with a GUI being able to run multiple programs, which would be essential for doing tournaments. It in fact would make it impossible for a GUI to run any WinBoard or UCI engine, as such engines are by definition separate processes.
Julien Marcel Apple interdit l'utilisation de binaires externes à un programme pour les applications iOS.
Ted Wong Unlike the Android operating systems, iOS apps will never be able to offer anything like Droidfish or Chess For Android. The technical limitation has been imposed by Apple that it's impossible to spawn an engine thread dynamically. What this means is that it's not possible to start a chess engine in the traditional sense as you see on Android or PCs. A chess engine must be statically compiled with any iOS chess app. This limitation is one of the main selling points of the iOS operating systems - stronger security. Imagine if a chess app can spawn a chess engine, any other app can also download a virus can run it on the user's device.
