Chess at ICC

Join our vibrant community of players, ranging from beginners to Grandmasters - all ready for you to watch, play or learn from, 24 hours a day! Founded in 1995 we're the longest running online chess site in the world! Get now this app, register your username and get a 1-month free trial! "Chess at ICC" offers: Online play * Play: Seek/offer match rated and unrated. You can also view seeks posted by other users. Can sort seek list by username, rating or game time. Options to filter the seek list. * Chat in the lobby and other propular channels, or chat with Friends * Friends: add your friends to the app and you can challenge them, chat, observe etc * Observe top games on ICC and sort by category, showing only rating categories you are interested in observing. * Events: Participate in a number of official events on ICC. Events include watching top relayed tournaments from around the world, playing in the pristine rating pools, playing TrainingBot and ProblemBot games, and more! * History: view your played games and send them by email * Account section to administer your ICC account * Takeback, draw, abort, resign and rematch options when playing * Fully functional console, for more control on the playing server * Timestamp to avoid lag problems * Confirm move feature to help avoid mouse-slips. Forward and Backward buttons are converted on Confirm/Cancel buttons Play against the computer * Selectable ELO Levels to adjust playing strength, from 500 to 2100, on 50 ELO points steps * Selectable time per move: changing the ELO and the time per move, lots of difficulty levels can be selected * Opening book with more than 30.000 positions: ensures variated funny games * Can undo/redo all moves * Send PGN by email: This way, you can analyze later your games on your PC * Graphical setup board, also can edit position’s FEN notation * On closing, saves the current game and it is loaded when the application is restarted Solve chess problems * 2900 chess problems to solve looking for the best moves: problems collected by Uwe Auerswald, from Germany * Selectable problem difficult (Easy, Medium and Hard Problems) PGN Browser: * Offline PGN viewer to save and replay your favorite games. Allows you to open PGN files from the SD card or from your email And with the Best interface * Clean, simple and intuitive interface (many options appear after pressing the “MENU” key) * Move by dragging and dropping the piece with useful guide lines * Ability to select your next piece to move on your opponent's move. To complete the move, tap the destination square when it becomes your move. Useful for speed games. * Also move by tapping the origin and the destiny squares or with the trackball * Portrait and Landscape mode * Shows legal moves * Highlights last move (with a yellow arrow or a coloured squarem, can be configured with a settings option), also move hints (as a green arrow) after a request in the menu * Many piece sets and board styles * Shows a dot on the side to move (the point is of the moving side color) and can show board coordinates * Shows captured pieces advantage for each one of the sides (as an example if black captured 3 pawns and whites 2, it shows an advantage of 1 white pawn for blacks), also has an option to hide captured pieces * Speak moves, checks and game results * Different sounds for moves, captures and checks. Toggle sound off and on, to play discreetly. * Vibrate phone for moves played * Option to keep the screen on when playing