Chesstroid: December 2017

December 25, 2017

Manana por la manana!

More posts to come asap...

Android UCI engine update: Fruit Reloaded 3.2.1

Although it took quiet a long time, more than 3 years to get an update to Fruit Reloaded of Fabien Letouzey, i wouldn't be surprised to see relatively modest imrovements. Indeed, Fruit had been the gateway to a new era in computer chess a decade ago. But neither the later versions of it, nor the forks (many to count) have progressed as much as "others" in the last decade.

No matter what, it's good to hear again from the "son" of the legendary engine.

GET Fruit Reloaded 3.2.1 for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cfish 2017.12.11.ACH

Not the latest available, for collectors only...

GET Cfish 2017.12.11.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Brainfish 2017.12.06.ACH

The engine:
GET Brainfish 2017.12.06.ACH for arm7 and arm8

Cerebellum book at Chesstroid repository:

GET Cerebellum Light 2017.11.01 (45 MB compressed)

How to setup Cerebellum book:

"To use the book Cerebellum_Light_Poly.bin (download the latest version of this book from the official site in polyglot format), create a book folder in the phone's memory and put a book in it. The path should look like this: /sdcard/book/Cerebellum_Light_Poly.bin, when the engine starts the book connects automatically."

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Sayuri 2017.12.07

Nothing new for me in eastern front: I still can't get to work the arm5 builds prepared by the author Hironori Ishibashi. I would be excited to hear someone can run these.

GET Sayuri 2017.12.07 for arm5

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cichess 1.8.20171205.ACH

This one goes to collectors only since there's already a more recent release.

GET Cichess 1.8.20171205.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble dowloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

New Android UCI engine: Gogobello 1.4

Please welcome a new engine to your mobile devices. Gogobello is written by the Italian programmer Salvatore Giannotti who recently took great care about compiling an an Android build too and succeeded. Arm8 is missing for this time but we have the arm7 version.

I guess Gogo will reach around 2650 ELO in Rapidroid, according to 3 bullets x 100 games it played against engines of this range.

Therefore, as mentioned in his homepage:

Starting from version 1.4 gogobello runs also on Android!

gogobello-android is successfully tested under DroidFish without gogobello.ini config file

Latest Version:

gogobello 1.4: (Android)

Status: released in December 2017

* - Android version available

* - Bug Fixing

* - Search improvements

* - Better Time Management

* - Better passed pawn evaluation

* - More UCI commands available (gogobello.ini is now optional)

GET Gogobello 1.4.SG for arm7

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cfish 2017.12.04.ACH

These are not the latest versions of Cfish. As newer versions were already released before i share these ones here, you'ds better take them as retro gifts for collectors!

GET Cfish 2017.12.04.ACH for arm7 and arm8
GET Cfish 2017.12.04.AG.ACH for arm7 and arm8, playing with higher contempt.

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Brainfish 2017.12.03.ACH

The engine:
GET Brainfish 2017.12.03.ACH for arm7 and arm8

Cerebellum book at Chesstroid repository:

GET Cerebellum Light 2017.11.01 (45 MB compressed)

How to setup Cerebellum book:

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Chess Free AI 2.553

WHAT'S NEW (01-Dec-2017):

v2.553: Fixes issue with some languages settings causing layout problems

Download latest version from GOOGLE PLAY.

Chess Tournament 0.7.7 by Javiolo

Javiolo's Chess Tournament app is the best Engine Tournament manager available for Android, thanks to several settings not yet made available in the older Chess for Android app. The latest version of Javiolo's "chef d'oeuvre" is available for download at GOOGLE PLAY.

WHAT'S NEW (04-Dec-2017):
v0.7.7
this app can not be improved
Our Cfish 64 bits work fine with all devices
- contempt
- fixed clear ratings general

December 24, 2017

Android UCI engine update: Stockfish dev't 2017.12.03.ACH

Yet another Stockfish build by Alexei Chernakoff, be it shared late than never.

GET Stockfish 8.0.2017.12.03.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cichess 1.8.20171201.ACH

Cichess is a Stockfish derivative i'm not interested to test but i respect the dedicated fans of it, so i keep sharing wherever i can, no matter how quickly (...how lately).

Below build is for collectors only, there's already a more recent release version that i'll soon share here.

GET Cichess 1.8.20171201.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble dowloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: armFish 2017.11.23

armFish builds are made by Lyudmil Antonov for arm8 64-bit devices only, using direct cpu instructions via assembly language. This method is the most native but a little bit unhuman too. One would only bear this to obtain the fastest build.

I could not verify whether below build is made by Lyudmil too like previous ones, given that it was posted in another forum, not from Lyudmil's repository. By the way, it's hard to guess someone else would take the same difficult challenge to deal with the assembly language.

I still assume it's an LA build.

GET armFish 2017.11.23.LA for arm8

In case of trouble dowloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Stockfish dev't 2017.11.18 by Javiolo

Please note that the builds run with the GUI's developed by Javiolo. You have to install one of them (CEPA for example) first, as mentioned by the author in what's new notice.

WHAT'S NEW (29-Nov-2017):
new release Stockfish 8 20171118 NOT Open Exchange protocol NOT OEX engine. Only works with our GUIs.
old release Stockfish 8 20171004 NOT Open Exchange protocol NOT OEX engine. Only works with our GUIs.

Other Stockfish derivatives

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.packs.chessenginesotherfishpack

for more engines see Chess Engines app

You can download the engine pack from GOOGLE PLAY.

Full description of the app says:

"The Stockfish engine was developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, and Joona Kiiski. It is now being developed and maintained by the Stockfish community.

https://stockfishchess.org/about/

We do Not develop/create this Engine. We just compiled/adapted it for android

at this moment Stockfish Chess Engine only works in OURs GUIs.

Install engine app and run one of our GUIs (Graphical User Interface), chess board.

UnInstall app to remove engine. Updating the app updates the engine.

Being a library this app does not need has a view/layout, need a Chess Board App.

The engine will appear in the engine list of the GUI

We have three GUIs:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.packs.ajedrezmotores

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.packs.adminpgn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.packs.chessenginestournament

It is also a good idea to be able to play matches between SF vs Komodo

architectures: (pie) ;

armv5, armv7, arm64v8, x86, x86_64

Stockfish 8 day: 20161101

old release:

Stockfish 8 20171004 NOT oex engine

Current release:

Stockfish 8 20171118 NOT oex engine

Api min 16 (4.1 Jelly Bean)

for old devices install the other Stockfish nopie app

this engine is on github"

Cfish 2017.11.29 by Javiolo

Thanks to Javiolo for this Cfish update for Android.

WHAT'S NEW (29-Nov-2017):
new Cfish 8 20171129 NOT open exchange (Not oex)
old Cfish 8 20170819 NOT Open Exchange protocol

You can download the latest version from GOOGLE PLAY.