Chess at ICC

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"Chess at ICC" offers:

Online play

* Play: Seek/offer match rated and unrated. You can also view seeks posted by other users. Can sort seek list by username, rating or game time. Options to filter the seek list.

* Chat in the lobby and other propular channels, or chat with Friends

* Friends: add your friends to the app and you can challenge them, chat, observe etc

* Observe top games on ICC and sort by category, showing only rating categories you are interested in observing.

* Events: Participate in a number of official events on ICC. Events include watching top relayed tournaments from around the world, playing in the pristine rating pools, playing TrainingBot and ProblemBot games, and more!

* History: view your played games and send them by email

* Account section to administer your ICC account

* Takeback, draw, abort, resign and rematch options when playing

* Fully functional console, for more control on the playing server

* Timestamp to avoid lag problems

* Confirm move feature to help avoid mouse-slips. Forward and Backward buttons are converted on Confirm/Cancel buttons

Play against the computer

* 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

* 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

Solve 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:

* Offline PGN viewer to save and replay your favorite games. Allows you to open PGN files from the SD card or from your email

And with the Best interface

* Clean, simple and intuitive interface (many options appear after pressing the “MENU” key)

* Move by dragging and dropping the piece with useful guide lines

* Ability to select your next piece to move on your opponent's move. To complete the move, tap the destination square when it becomes your move. Useful for speed games.

* Also move by tapping the origin and the destiny squares or with the trackball

* Portrait and Landscape mode

* Shows legal moves

* 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

* Many piece sets and board styles

* 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. Toggle sound off and on, to play discreetly.

* Vibrate phone for moves played

* Option to keep the screen on when playing