Which mobile software is better for Serious Chess Player

Advice if you are a Serious player:

1. Go for Android because iOS and WP file management doesn't provide easy mass storage method to manage PGNs, EBooks, and Engines.

2. The Fritz interface equivalent for Android is called Droidfish. You can load CTG chessbase opening books and navagate opening on the go!

3. For reading PGN games look no other than "Chess PGN Master".

4. For tactics training use iChess because it works Offline + you can load your PGN problems.

5. For general chess learning and playing you download Chess.com.

6. For playing Blitz my favorite interface is ChessOK but it may not appeal to you.

7. Use PlayChess by chessbase for viewing live games. To bypass the password dialog just auto rotate the phone then rotate back.

8. CPU speed of the mobile plays a big factor decision its discussed here
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Android app for tactics training

Here's an Android free app with over 15,000 tactics puzzles and 6 levels of difficulty:

1-IdeaTactics
This application needs internet connection, without an internet connection the app doesn't work because all problems are on internet and are downloaded one at a time.

2-iChess
This application don't needs internet connection it works off-line.

3-Chess Puzzles

not free but very very cheep

Great application that makes reading and studying chess eBooks with (Ipad & Iphone) and Android very easy

Now with modern technology there you can read any chess book with mobile without the need of using chess board tap on the moves in your chess book in  (Ipad & Iphone)


 
While in  Android there is application that splites the screen into two , In the left the eBook and in the right chessboard but the problem with application that you should move the pieces manually

UCI and XBoard Engines for Android

Chess for Android is a chess application for the Android platform that supports the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) and Chess Engine Communication Protocol (often simply called the XBoard or WinBoard protocol). This feature allows users to import third party chess engines into the application, as further explained at UCI and XBoard Protocols for Android and in Chess for Android Manual. Users can either play an imported engine directly, use infinite analysis to study games, or even run tournaments between engines (see e.g. these tournaments). Engine setup furthermore features pondering, hash tables, multiple threads, endgame tablebases, and opening test suites.

Although Chess for Android runs on any Android device, it is important that the engine has been compiled into proper native code for that device. Currently, the Android platform distinguishes between x86-based devices and ARMv5TE-based devices.

UCI and XBoard Engines (x86)

For x86-based Android devices (such as Google TV), any engine binary that has been compiled for 32-bit x86 Linux will work. This format is widely available for many chess engines.

UCI and XBoard Engines (ARMv5TE)

Engine binaries that run on ARMv5TE-based Android devices (most phones and tablets) are not widespread yet. The entries below, however, list such engines, either as a link to the engine's website or as a direct download of a binary compiled by Aart Bik (for all direct downloads, the engine authors have given kind permissions to post the binaries on this website). Download package with direct downloads on this page, or view tournament results.

• arm_engines.zip
• tournaments

Individual engines:

• Alfil (Enrique Sanchez)
• Alfil 12, Alfil 13
• BikJump (Aart Bik)
• BikJump 1.8
• BikJump 2.1
• Critter (Richard Vida)
• Critter 1.6a
• Cheng3 (Martin Sedlák)
• Cheng3 1.07
• Pos (Folkert van Heusden)
• BrutePos for Android 1.1
• Cinnamon (Giuseppe Cannella)
• Cinnamon 1.1
• DiscoCheck (Lucas Braesch)
• DiscoCheck 3.7.1
• DiscoCheck 4.0.1
• DiscoCheck 4.3
• GarboChess (Gary Linscott)
• GarboChess 3
• Gaviota and Gaviota endgame tablebases (Miguel Ballicora)
• Gaviota 0.86
• GNUChess for Android (Olivier Esser)
• GNUChess 6.0.2
• GreKo (Vladimir Medvedev)
• GreKo 9.8
• H.G. Muller's Engines and Tools
• FairyMax 4.8 (also needs fmax.ini)
• micro-Max 4.8
• p2p 0.3 (peer-to-peer GUI connection adapter)
• Iota (Daniel White)
• Iota
• Jim Ablett's Chess Projects (list is growing daily!)
• UCI: adroitchess, apilchess, arasan, cassandre, cheng, cyrano, daydreamer, diablo, doublecheck, garbochess, greko, jazz, komodo, pawny, pepito, redqueen, rocinante, rotor, simplex, sissa, stockfish, suff, sungorus
• XBOARD: buzz, chess-one, crafty, danasah, exchess, gfc, gk, gullydeckel, kmtchess, knightcap, mizar, mskcp, natwarlal, olithink, olithink, phalanx, scidlet, scorpio, sjeng-, sloppy, surprise, toledo-nanochess, uzz, zzzzzz
• Komodo (Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman)
• Komodo 3
• Michel Van den Bergh's website
• GNUChess 5.07
• RobboLito 0.085g3l
• Toga II 1.4.1SE
• Scorpio bitbases probing DLL egbbso.so (install this once to internal memory just like an engine)
• Minimardi (Juan Pablo Fernandez)
• MiniMardi
• Myrddin (John Merlino)
• Myrddin 0.86
• RedQueen (Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Jr.)
• RedQueen 1.1.2
• Rotor (Jan Brouwer)
• Rotor 0.7a
• Stockfish (Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, and Joona Kiiski)
• Stockfish 2.3.1
• Tjchess (Tony Hecker)
• Tjchess 1.1
• TSCP (Tom Kerrigan)
As stated above, posted here with explicit permission. If you want to redistribute the binary, please contact Tom.
• TSCP 181
• Tucano (Alcides Schulz)
• Tucano 1.04
• VirutorChess for Android (Vaclav Vavra)
• VirutorChess 1.1.1
• ZCT (Zach Wegner)
• ZCT 0.3.2500  

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