Komodo 10 Chess Engine is a game by komodochess.com in the Board category. It includes native code for x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM (legacy), ARM 32-bit and ARM 64-bit, so it runs on practically every phone.
It asks for 1 permission, none of them sensitive.
What's new in v1.5
- Fix Syzygy Tablebase bug
Description
From the listing uploaded by “albmuslim”.
Komodo 10 is the latest release of this prize-winning chess engine. Komodo 10 is an improvement over all previous Komodo versions and supports multi-core processors (32- and 64-bit) and endgame tablebases.
BEFORE YOU PURCHASE: NOTE THAT KOMODO 10 FOR ANDROID REQUIRES A CHESS GUI (for recommendations, see below).
THIS INSTALLER PROVIDES THE KOMODO ENGINE IN CHESSBASE & OPEN EXCHANGE FORMAT ONLY.
AFTER PURCHASING: Verify your license by running the installed app once before using Komodo.
Additional documentation is available at http://komodochess.com/Komodo_Play_Store_Instructions_9.html .
Komodo has won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT. On desktop computers, Komodo 10 is approximately +50 Elo stronger than Komodo 9 on one core according to the independent IPON test as well as our own internal testing, with the gain increasing with more cores, to about 60 Elo on 4 cores based on our own tests.
Komodo 10 is expected to obtain the top rating on the majority of the best-known chess engine rating lists. Previous versions of Komodo have won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC and CCT.
Key features of Komodo 10:
- Evaluation developed by a Grandmaster
- Multi-core support (up to 64 cores)
- Syzygy endgame tablebase support
What's new in Komodo 10:
- Evaluation improvements
- better assessment of mobility/activity
- improved handling of drawish positions
- improved understanding of attacks on the king
- Improved search performance (much better time-to-depth)
- Chess 960 (Fischer Random Chess) support (please note that, at this time, only one GUI ("Chess", see below) supports Chess960)
- Persistent Hash: save and restore analysis
- Over 100 other improvements throughout the software
Recommended chess GUIs include:
• Chess for Android (free, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.chess )
• Chess PGN Master (commercial, trial available, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalab.pgnviewer )
• ChessBase Online (commercial, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chessbase.android.chessdb )
• Analyze This (commercial, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pereira.analysis.paid )
• Scid on the Go (free, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scid.android )
• DroidFish Chess (free, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.petero.droidfish )
• Hawk Chess (commercial, trial available, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalhawk.chess.paid )
• Chess (free, supports Chess960, http://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jwtc.android.chess )
For more information, please visit the Komodo Chess web site at http://www.komodochess.com/ .
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Trusted
Signing certificate
Certificate issued to “Komodo Chess”Not the developer's name (“komodochess.com”). Names in certificates can't be verified, so this alone proves nothing.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature verifiedJan 26, 2020
Antivirus scan passedNov 29, 2020
Signed byCN=Jeremy Bernstein, OU=Engineering, O=Komodo Chess, L=Berlin, ST=Berlin, C=DE
Uploaded by “albmuslim”Silver tier · 6,579 followers · uploading since 2017
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Permissions (1)
Komodo 10 Chess Engine requests 1 permission, none of them sensitive.
Google Play license checkcom.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE
Komodo 10 Chess Engine 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 the Komodo 10 Chess Engine APK safe?
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