I have just played a few games using the new Android app on my tablet, and I like it. But in the last one I was a Queen up in the endgame, but suddenly I could not move anymore and I lost on time. Not very funny...
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Hello,
I recently started playing live chess on an Android Tablet, and it's really great -- the larger screen is outstanding to make moves on. I have a few suggestions for improving the android app:
1) Please offer a way to make opponents moves easier to see. I play 10 minute games, and it's difficult to recognize when opponents havae made a new move on the tablet. The highlighting for the opponent's last move is not easy to recognize. It would be great if, after I make a move, and the opponent then makes a move, that the opponent's last move is more easily recognizable. Maybe offer a setting to customize the opponent's last move in more bold highlighting?
2) Pre-move would be awesome -- many times, I am in a winning position and would like to have a pre-move feature.
3) The captured pieces show up behind each other on bigger tablets, so it's difficult to see what I've captured and what my opponent has captured. I realize I should look at the board for this, but the live chess android app does not show captured pieces in the same way as live chess in a browser.
4) I don't know if there's a way to click on the game history and put the board in a previous position in the android app -- in the live chess in a browser, you can click on the move history and the board will change to show the board at that particular move. This is an okay feature, and not that important. However, this is related to my "show opponent's last move better" request.
5) Improve the chat feature in the android app -- I like to say "good game" and "hello", etc. to the opponents -- I think that this improves the human-aspect of the game and is one of the most important things about playing chess versus other people. It would be great to be able to easily type messages to opponents, in the same way as live chess in the browser.
The videos, etc, are a lot more fun to watch on the tablet, and the video player integration is great on the android tablets. Overall, I'm very happy that I got a tablet, and I play a lot more live chess using the android app now that I have a tablet.