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Honest question, is there any open source non-subscription based no-frill virtual chess board on Android that allows you to simply play chess offline against hu

Honest question, is there any open source non-subscription based no-frill virtual chess board on Android that allows you to simply play chess offline against human or AI, in the same spirit as VLC on Android?

__jonas 3y ago
lichess is open source and has an android app
- graphe 3y ago
  Vouching for this, best chess app ever. Also offers a website!
- Zizizizz 3y ago
  For convenience... https://lichess.org https://lichess.org https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lichess.mobileapp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lichess.mo...
- teleforce 3y ago
  Great, thanks for the suggestion. Apparently, Lichess has 'Over the board' feature that allows you to play with your friend offline, nice!
  - naet 3y ago
    It also has a pretty good chess clock if you have a physical board but want to play timed.
  - mat_epice 3y ago
    It also lets you play an engine (stockfish) running on your phone. I play offline on planes all the time.
- jmfldn 3y ago
  Written in Scala I believe which makes me love it even more (Scala fan here!).
tetris11 3y ago
Chess (Chess program and FICS client) https://f-droid.org/packages/jwtc.android.chess/ https://f-droid.org/packages/jwtc.android.chess/ JustChess (Chess for one or two players) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.alaskalinuxuser.justchess/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.alaskalinuxuser.justchess/
hereonout2 3y ago
Not open source but chess.com app is brilliant, it's a freemium model - you can play for free - but they just keep trying to sell you tip and tutorials. Also seems to have all the grand masters on there as players, Magnus ignored my request for a game though.
stavros 3y ago
Lichess is fully open source and the best chess platform right now, online or offline.