Lantern Chess - ICC Online 4+

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.