Acid Ape Chess is the multi-purpose chess suite aimed at the serious player.
Acid Ape Chess is organized with a tools philosophy in mind. You can leverage its modular design to perform common and less common chess-related tasks.
⢠Play on FICS, ICC and Lichess ⢠Watch live online games ⢠View online players and their game history ⢠Non-disruptive in-game chat using a subwindow at the bottom of the chessboard
Chess engines
⢠Play against UCI or CECP chess engines ⢠Organize engine duels ⢠3 strong builtin engines are provided (Arasan, cheng4 and Scorpio) ⢠Use third-party Open Exchange engines ⢠Add your own engine binaries ⢠Adjust engine-specific settings
Analysis
⢠Analyze with multiple chess engines ⢠Display the principal variation and stats ⢠Display an evaluation graph ⢠Display Syzygy 7-men EGTB results (uses an online service) ⢠Easily create, annotate and move variations with our move list editor ⢠Automatic analysis (apply the best move every x seconds) ⢠Auto annotate games using a chess engine and the endgame tablebases ⢠Advanced move indicators displaying engine evaluation scores
Premium access to our online database
⢠210 million positions ⢠3.6 million games, from the 1800s to 2020 ⢠270,000 OTB players, from club players to superstars ⢠Used by the opening explorer ⢠Can be used as an opening book for chess engines ⢠Search for players, display games, filter by ELO and opening ⢠Our database is updated continuously ⢠The perfect tools for your game preparation
PGN support
⢠Your played games are autosaved ⢠The PGN Explorer: a file manager with PGN support ⢠Edit your games (headers, move tree, annotations) ⢠Load and save PGN files ⢠Clipboard support ⢠Share your games as PGN download links
OTB chess
⢠Watch live games from major professional tournaments ⢠Search our online database for players and games ⢠Use a stylish fullscreen clock for your OTB games
Electronic boards and clocks
⢠Drivers for the DGT Bluetooth e-Board, the DGT USB e-Board, the DGT Smart Board, the DGT Revelation II, the DGT3000 and the DGT Pi * ⢠Play online, engine and OTB games with your physical board and clock ⢠Connect via Bluetooth or USB
Blindfold play
⢠The board and move list are hidden ⢠You input your moves via speech recognition ⢠Opponent moves are announced via speech synthesis
Tactical puzzles
⢠Solve 900 puzzles split into 3 levels of difficulty ⢠Import your own PGN puzzles
Simuls
⢠Challenge from 2 to 16 engine opponents ⢠Play blindfold simuls
A comprehensive user manual
⢠Explains everything about AAC, and more! ⢠Presented as a book, accessible from AAC ⢠Contains numerous use cases and tips
Extra features
⢠Play Chess960 ⢠Choose from many different board and piece themes ⢠Enter local player details, with country flag, chess title and ELO ⢠Use the position editor to encode positions for playing or analysis ⢠Move speech recognition and synthesis ⢠A LCD chess clock modeled after real hardware, with sound and flag display ⢠Displays your personal statistics against your opponent ⢠Use a standalone clock app for your non-connected OTB games
This is Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition, containing all the features.
* DGT drivers are the only optional purchase inside the application. We have set an unique worldwide base price for this optional feature, in â¬. The final price is fixed by Google Play and varies depending on local taxes, VAT, and currency exchange rates. To give you an idea, it is 59.99 ⬠(VAT included) in Germany.... Read more