SmallFish Chess for Stockfish

Having tried many chess apps, I consider this app to be excellent! Most chess enthusiasts say that the only decent chess games were developed for PC. Until finding this app I thought that was true. My preferred choice has been Chess Master- Grandmaster edition (pc version), which I used for more than 10 years. This app is certainly the best contender yet!

I find SmallFish difficult to navigate(the HIARCS app is very intuitive but not free of charge). Also I believe SmallFish does not display number of positions looked at per second as the regular Stockfish app does. Stockfish is free and easy to use. Another issue is that I can’t see whether the endgame tablebase I downloaded is installed on SmallFish, or how to verify that SmallFish is using them( I think a red TB is displayed WHILE the table base is in use). But If true that it’s Elo ~3300 on iphones, that’s pretty cool. If u mostly need the very strongest app, at the cost of some features smallfish is the one to get.

I started playing with this app a few weeks ago and became more and more impressed over time. The UI is solid and the ability to move through a game while getting analysis is so slick. I love this game and I’m playing it every day and you should too.

This is a fantastic app, especially since it is free. Regularly updated to use the newest and strongest Stockfish engine (which is the equal of the strongest chess engines in the world, free or paid). Beautiful, simple interface with unique analysis graph. For every move, shows who is winning and by how much in a easy-to-understand graph. Virtually unique among free programs in allowing users to add comments to moves. Very helpful in going over your own games and making notes on where to improve. Developer has responded very quickly to emails pointing out bugs and suggesting improvements. Thanks, Ted!

I read books on a chess reader app, but not all books are in this format. This app allows me to play and set up positions from the book, and I explore moves that are not mentioned. I also download a bunch of tournament PGNs for later references. I also use it to sharpen up my openings. Really great app. Get it!