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ChessTastic™ Beta Beta

2.2 MB / 5K+ Downloads / Rating 4.5 - 190 reviews


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ChessTastic™ Beta, developed and published by AVIJIT GHOSH, has released its latest version, Beta, on 2015-06-10. This app falls under the Strategy category on the Google Play Store and has achieved over 5000 installs. It currently holds an overall rating of 4.5, based on 190 reviews.

ChessTastic™ Beta APK available on this page is compatible with all Android devices that meet the required specifications (Android 3.0+). It can also be installed on PC and Mac using an Android emulator such as Bluestacks, LDPlayer, and others.

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Game Details

Package name: com.nemesis.materialchess

Updated: 10 years ago

Developer Name: AVIJIT GHOSH

Category: Strategy

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Installation Instructions

This article outlines two straightforward methods for installing ChessTastic™ Beta on PC Windows and Mac.

Using BlueStacks

  1. Download the APK/XAPK file from this page.
  2. Install BlueStacks by visiting http://bluestacks.com.
  3. Open the APK/XAPK file by double-clicking it. This action will launch BlueStacks and begin the application's installation. If the APK file does not automatically open with BlueStacks, right-click on it and select 'Open with...', then navigate to BlueStacks. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop the APK file onto the BlueStacks home screen.
  4. Wait a few seconds for the installation to complete. Once done, the installed app will appear on the BlueStacks home screen. Click its icon to start using the application.

Using LDPlayer

  1. Download and install LDPlayer from https://www.ldplayer.net.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file directly into LDPlayer.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Game Rating

4.5
Total 190 reviews

Reviews

5 ★, on 2019-07-07
Best open-source chess game as far as I know! Too bad the game is made for an old Android version. Also, a GitHub issue states that the chess engine is out of date as well. However, I'm still enjoying it.

5 ★, on 2020-06-07
Beautiful app lovely inclinations and features very nice looks and feel i like the settings and look deserves 5 stars i think it could get better...

1 ★, on 2016-11-07
Chess board colour , piece style are not so good...Stockfish 8 and Komodo 10 ,these two chess engines need to be added to analyze the games....option need to share the games with other apps ... opening book names with variation should also be noted in the movelist area..

4 ★, on 2017-04-25
Really nice material design chess app. I'd bump my score to to a 5/5 if the dev allowed the option to change the color scheme to something a little more muted... The current colors are a bit hard on the eyes. Gray is alright though.

4 ★, on 2016-11-12
I just love the material design, my only problem is that when I play two player whoever faces the other side gets a headache since the board is opposite to them.

5 ★, on 2015-08-15
I've been looking for a chess app that also doesn't look like it's from the medieval period for ages and I've finally found this. Looks great, nice set of features enough for a beginner like me. Great work.

Previous Versions

ChessTastic™ Beta Beta
2015-06-10 / 2.2 MB / Android 3.0+

About this app

ChessTastic is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess. It is based on the opensource app Dark Knight and uses the Stockfish Chess Engine.


Features
* 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 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.


Analysis
ChessTastic 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
ChessTastic contains a small internal opening book. If you want to use a larger book, you can configure ChessTastic to use a polyglot book file:
1. Create a directory called ChessTastic on the SD card folder.
2. Copy one or more polyglot book files to the ChessTastic directory.
3. From the program menu, activate the Select opening book function.
4. Select the opening book file you want to use.


PGN files
ChessTastic can load games from PGN files. To use this feature:
1. Create a directory called ChessTastic/pgn on the SD card folder.
2. Copy one or more PGN files to the ChessTastic/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.
* ChessTastic is a Lollipop fork of Droidfish and Dark Knight. Sources available at https://github.com/AvijitGhosh82/material-chess-android . Do help me out if possible!

New features

Beta 1.2: Fixed chessboard square colors. Sorry for the delay, had been busy.

App Permissions

Allows an application to read from external storage.