Live Chess on Android

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Avatar of SocialDemo

I can't find any youtube-videos or any feedbacks on it. Does it work? Is it good?

Avatar of kohai

Works for me. I use Android Wildfire phone and xoom tablet in live chess on the app.

Avatar of tje83

I have played over 200 live-chess games using the Andriod app on my Xoom tablet. Works great!! I've lost a few games due to the app crashing and not reconnecting fast enough, but they keep updating it to fix these bugs. The only bad thing is that PC users can't see that you've been disconnected when you're playing them using the mobile app, so I've been called a liar a few times when I apologized for the long wait due to me having to force close and restart the app.

Sorry about the bad grammar, English is not my first language:-)

Avatar of kohai

tje83,

I just tested this myself using my android app.

Perhaps the opponent[s] aren't checking their own game chats :(

The game chat area does show if an android app user disconnects and reconnects.

On a test account (dudley_spuds) I logged into live chess for a game on the app. Below shows the message the opponents see in their game chat area.

NEW GAME (309715013) - kohai vs. dudley_spuds (3 0 unrated)

dudley_spuds has left the chat.

dudley_spuds has disconnected. Waiting for reconnect...

dudley_spuds has reconnected.

dudley_spuds has joined the chat.

Avatar of ZheKa

The buggy Android live chess was freezing on me when I was playing live chess. Now my account is restricted and I could not playing live chess anymore!!!

That's the way to treat your premium members chess.com.

Avatar of kohai

zheka the server in live chess doesn't differentiate between browsers and apps, it flags on what happens in the games. I've lowered it for you now.

Avatar of PaulDaviesUK

I only use the Android app with a galaxy s2, has worked well for me as far as playing the game but it could with a feature that allowed you to access and open .pgn files.

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