Loading and Saving Games
I added a much requested feature to Chess for Android: the ability to load and save games (other than just the one in progress). To use this feature, long-press anywhere in the notation window to get to a menu for exporting the game to clipboard as PGN or FEN or, the new feature, for loading and saving games as file.
As illustrated below, after pressing "Save Game to File", a pop-up window asks the user to pick a file. Initially files are empty, but after saving they get marked with the date and time of the last stored game. Simply pick a marked file to overwrite or pick an empty file, as done below for file 3. Loading a game is done in a similar manner.
As illustrated below, after pressing "Save Game to File", a pop-up window asks the user to pick a file. Initially files are empty, but after saving they get marked with the date and time of the last stored game. Simply pick a marked file to overwrite or pick an empty file, as done below for file 3. Loading a game is done in a similar manner.
Comments
Per Patrick C, a start would be to browse to the SD card for games to load; then he could put the stuff from chessgames.com in his brorwser's download folder and you could browse to that (though a browser helper would be da bomb).
I just bought my first Android phone and immediately installed your (bigjump?) chess program. It works great! Never beated it sofar.
Keep up the good work!
Stephan Vermeire
This is no bug, but a valid chess move called en-passant. After white's move e2e4, black captures d4xe3 en-passant. Please also see my previous posting http://aartbik.blogspot.com/2009/11/en-passant-and-castling.html on this topic. Hope this helps.
For me, a great feature is to be able to replay a game while being able to see the engine analysis. Maybe the top two or three alternative moves.
Also, during replay, I'd like to be able to play an alternate move for maybe a ply or two, and then back up to the main line and continue my study (or where I went wrong 8-).