ChessBack

Play chess and watch tournaments online.

digiXMAS · vnspeak.android.chess

Not rated yet 10K+ downloads v1.3.0 4.4 MB Android 4.4+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

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At a glance

Latest version: v1.3.0 (30)
Updated: Jun 7, 2024 (2 years ago)
APK size: 4.4 MB
Requires: Android 4.4+ (API 19)
CPU support: x86 64-bit
Category: Board (game)
Listed since: Apr 2, 2023 (at least)
Permissions: 9
Website: vnspeak.com
Developer contact: [email protected]

About this APK

ChessBack is a game by digiXMAS in the Board category, listed since at least April 2023. It includes native code only for x86 64-bit, so it won't install on ordinary ARM phones (only on x86 devices such as emulators and some Chromebooks).

It asks for 9 permissions, none of them sensitive. The game offers in-app purchases through Google Play and can read the advertising ID that ad and analytics services use.

What's new in v1.3.0

Fixed crash on few devices.

Description

From the listing uploaded by “appupdater”.

ChessBack is a tiny, ads-free, but full-features chess application for beginners as well as professional chess players. Specially, it's fully accessible and allows blind and visually impaired chess players to play online chess with millions of players around the world! The free features: - Play offline: Human vs Human, Human vs Android - Practice: practice with forced mate sequences taken from grand master games. - Puzzles: solving Mate-in-two puzzles. - Play online: play online games with players from FICS (Free Internet Chess Server). Features included in ChessBack Pro package for subscribed users: - Playing online on Lichess, - Watching major chess tournaments over the globe online, - Sending your games to third-party chess engine apps. How to get playing on Lichess: - Create a lichess account at https://lichess.org/signup - Log in and create API token at https://lichess.org/account/oauth/token/create? . Don't forget to turn on all scopes except last one "Play games with the bot API". - Now you can login to Lichess in ChessBack using username and generated API token. Attention: - ChessBack plays on Lichess via open Lichess API that has many limitations in compare with standard Lichess app. - If you want to play ChessBack in your language that it's not supported by ChessBack at this moment, we'd happily send string resource file in English to you for translating to your language! - Many thanks to Ana G., Ikrami Ahmad, Claudio Garanzini, Lucas Radaelli, Milos Przic, Александр for translating to Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian and Russian.

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Trusted

Signing certificate

Certificate with Google's generic name Google Play App Signing gives the keys it manages this name, but anyone can put it in a certificate, so this alone proves nothing.

Store checks and file details

Developer signature verified Jun 7, 2024
Signed byCN=Android, OU=Android, O=Google Inc., L=Mountain View, ST=California, C=US
Signing certificate (SHA-1)0D:14:9C:F2:18:EC:6E:A0:E2:EB:48:90:B2:65:A4:5B:4E:C3:E1:29
File MD5a3e6aa5d4c4c45653d7e2d4d3a5d0d4d
Uploaded by “appupdater” Gold tier · 117,810 followers · uploading since 2020

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Permissions (9)

ChessBack requests 9 permissions, none of them sensitive.

Advertising ID com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID
Control vibration android.permission.VIBRATE
Full network access android.permission.INTERNET
Fullscreen android.permission.FULLSCREEN
In-app purchases (Google Play Billing) com.android.vending.BILLING
Internal broadcast protection (app-defined) vnspeak.android.chess.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Prevent the device from sleeping android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
Show notifications android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS
View network connections android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

ChessBack APK: questions and answers

Can I install this APK over the version I already have?

Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.

Is ChessBack free?

The APK is free to download, but the game offers in-app purchases through Google Play.

Is the ChessBack APK safe?

No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is a3e6aa5d4c4c45653d7e2d4d3a5d0d4d.