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?
A chess TUI implementation
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#12Honest 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?
lichess is open source and has an android app
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#13Honest 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?
Chess (Chess program and FICS client)
https://f-droid.org/packages/jwtc.android.chess/
JustChess (Chess for one or two players) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.alaskalinuxuser.justchess/
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#14Honest 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?
lichess is open source and has an android app
Vouching for this, best chess app ever. Also offers a website!
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#15what's TUI? T for text?
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#16what's TUI? T for text?
Terminal (command line) User Interface
Yes. Text
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#17An older chess TUI: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1024#issuecomment-40025...
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#18Honest 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?
lichess is open source and has an android app
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#19Honest 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?
lichess is open source and has an android app
Great, thanks for the suggestion.
Apparently, Lichess has 'Over the board' feature that allows you to play with your friend offline, nice!
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#20Commit 592de110d15c55512f8254b38051e3a61853eb82 looks weird. I don't have the time to read the code, but mod 9 instead of mod 8 in a chess-related program looks like the off-by-one has just been "fixed" in the wrong place.
Could be the newline