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Bagatur Chess Engine

Offline chess play with 16 strength levels. Chess Engine with its own GUI. Chess
New in version 1.3.8
Fix rare out of memory issue, which appears on some devices with less memory.
This is the open source Bagatur Chess Engine with its own GUI (graphical user interface).
It is not as strong as Stockfish, Komodo, AlphaZero or Leela Chess Zero, but is strong enough to beat a grandmaster.
It has 16 strength levels. From level 5, it could show the search information.
The ELO rating is about 3000 and the program has a unique playing style.
In general, the application demonstrates an application of artificial intelligence (AI) into the domain of chess.
To clarify, it is not an OEX chess engine and other chess engines cannot be imported into the GUI.


Playing instructions:

  1. Check the menu and make sure the strength level is appropriate.

  2. Select/deselect the Human/Computer buttons for both sides according to which side you want to play and whether you play against a computer or another person.

  3. Use the flip board button to change sides if you play with black.

  4. Move the piece by drag and drop or by selecting from/to squares.

  5. If you want, you could use the move navigation buttons to go back and forward in the move sequence.

  6. It is recommended to check all settings in the menu and make sure you play with the option you like most (e.g. move animation speed, chess pieces set, colors).




Features:

  1. FEN import/export/share.

  2. Different modes: Human-Human, Human-Bagatur, Bagatur-Bagatur.

  3. Different strengths levels.

  4. The app could show the best moves line as well as the evaluation of the board position produced by Bagatur.

  5. Navigation of played move's (first, previous, next, last).

  6. Flipboard function.

  7. Moving by drag and drop as well as by selecting from and to squares.

  8. Supports different color palettes and chess pieces sets for different tastes.




Permissions:
The app uses ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE and INTERNET permsisions, because it shows home ads and they open the default browser on the device, going to one of our other apps' page on the store or on the website of Metatrans Apps.
To be more precise, if the other app is available on the store, from which the app is downloaded, then opens the app page of the other app on the same store. If still the app is not available on the store, then opens the app page on our website.
The app pages on our website have app demo video on YouTube, so a connection to youtube domain will also be listed in order to visualize the page in the browser.
Our website is created by WordPress, so connections to other domains could be opened as well for technical purposes (e.g. downloading text fonts css).


Your feedback and/or review is more than welcome.

Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 1.3.8 (138) suggested Added on Apr 30, 2023

    This version requires Android 6.0 or newer.

    It is built by F-Droid and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.

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  • Version 1.3.6 (136) - Added on Mar 11, 2023

    This version requires Android 6.0 or newer.

    It is built by F-Droid and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.

    Download APK 10 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 1.2.9 (129) - Added on Jan 10, 2023

    This version requires Android 6.0 or newer.

    It is built by F-Droid and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.

    Download APK 10 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log