Lantern Chess - ICC Online 4+
Play & Video Online
Michael Adams
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- Free
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Description
Play, watch, and chat on the Internet Chess Club as a member or as a guest with no signup. Anyone can 'Connect as Guest' and play unrated.
There is computer play option on board against the Pulsar Chess Engine that support chess and chess960 with levels and some other variants such as Atomic Chess and Crazyhouse. This is available offline as well and with no internet. There is opening explorer option on board. All games played in app are also saved to PGN and can be opened in the explorer view.
Crafty engine analysis is available when observing and examining. 50 chess videos to watch in app for members or trials.
Variety of setting. Board and pieces choices and options like premove or moving between touch touch and drag move can be set in settings.
Lantern's board is accessible for the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over. With Voice Over on in device settings users can tap on a square to have it said what's on a square and double tap selects. Moves are announced as well with Voice Over. We are in 5 languages including Spanish and Voice Over will use device language setting.
The console can be used to chat or send commands if desired. For members there's a channels window to quickly join and chat on channels.
Ratings and Reviews
Remarkable app. The only Chess app! play other humans! Learn openings play puzzles.
Pretty cool has more functionality than all of the other ICC interfaces available on iPad or any other platform. It is based on a small number of tabs, very quick to navigate. Yes the app stays connected to ICC when you decide to use another app. I would not use any other interface for chess.
ONLINE: Very easy to find human and computer opponents, very usable game play in fast games, and has several ways of finding fun games to watch. It has a "trainingbot" button which is addictive because it is so accessible and there are thousands of puzzles. ICC is an incredibly lively place for chess and chat.
Even when OFFLINE (it all works online too) the way the openings study guide works is really nice because it is a playable board and tells you percentage win loss and draw for that position. The Pulsar engine (chess robot) is included, it is a very strong opponent, so you can practice against it.
However of the really remarkable functions are the split screen chat so can chat whilst following games, so you can sit back chill out using the full functionality of this very reliable and stable app, highly recommended. I would not, and do not use any other interface, I have tried them all!
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Information
- Provider
- Michael Adams
- Size
- 11.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2013-2020 Michael Ronald Adams
- Price
- Free