Acid Ape Chess

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. Acid Ape Chess focuses on: • quality; • elegance; • ergonomics; • versatility. Some Acid Ape Chess features: Online chess • 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 engines • Adjust engine-specific settings • Use custom PolyGlot (.bin) and Arena (.abk) opening books • Use custom neural networks 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 • 260 million positions • 4.5 million games, from the 1800s to 2025 • 330,000 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 • Play OTP (over the phone): two players on the same phone or tablet. 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 Standard Edition, which only provides a subset of the listed features. For the full set, see Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition.