Fruit Reloaded avaiable for Android

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The chess engine Fruit reloaded (an fork of Fruit by Fabien Letouzey, Daniel Mehrmann, and Ryan Benitez) now also includes Android builds. I have just tested this in Chess for Android, and it works great. Nice to see a still increasing popularity of Android as chess platform!

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Homer said…
It's my pleasure :)
April 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Unknown said…
Hello Aart,
It's nice to see you back on your blog. While you remsined silent for a while, there have many ideas and experience to share with you regarding Chess for Android, which you should not give up improving.
April 18, 2014 at 1:53 AM
Aart Bik said…
Thanks Gurcan. New features are still in the making!
April 18, 2014 at 11:04 AM
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