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Acid Ape Chess

Acid Ape Chess is the multi-purpose chess suite aimed at the serious player. Acid Ape Chess is organized ...

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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 Open Exchange engines
Add your own engine binaries
Adjust engine-specific settings

Analysis

Analyze with multiple chess engines
Display the principal variation and stats
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

• 200 million positions
• 3.4 million games, from the 1800s to 2019
• 260,000 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

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.

Last update

Jan. 10, 2020

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