Looking for simple Android app to play through games

Can anyone out there please recommend a simple Android app (free) that can be used to play through games? I'm looking for something that will allow me to reach a position, save that position, play through alternate lines, then return to the position.

Most of my chess study consists of playing through games by great players from the past. Right now I'm playing through the Tal-Botvinnik championship match of 1960. In his analysis of each game Tal provides many explanations of why a particular alternate line may have been stronger, or weaker. I would like to be able to play through these alternates, then jump back to the actual last move. 

Some people can do this by memory, but at my age and level of skill I just can't. 

I have tried to use the Lichess app for this kind of thing, but have found myself getting lost.

Why can't you just use an Android web browser on the Chess.com website?   That would work well.

You can load any pgn with all the side variations you want.

Everything you've described can be done with the Chess.com analysis board.....and it's free...

Learn -> Analysis....

https://www.chess.com/analysis

Analyse This is quite good

I use chessbase on my android. Import n replay games. you can also run the engine locally.

Thanks for the replies. I'm looking at the chess.com analysis board, but having trouble figuring out what I can do with it. Don't you have to have a paid membership to save an analysis? I have only a free membership.

What I'm looking to do is read my book(s), make the moves, explore any variants described in the annotation, then go back and resume making the moves that were actually made. 

To be honest, I don't even know where to download annotated pgn files. I have been downloading just plain old pgn files from chessgames.com and then printing the games out using Arena and playing them on my physical chess board.  Yes, I'm old. I still print some things out.

From time to time I play through those games on Arena. But after 40 years of sitting in front of a computer terminal for my job, these days I would sometimes like to leave the computer and go to another room and play through games on my physical chess board or maybe on the phone. 

I hope I am making sense.

I repeat.  EVERYTHING you want to do can be done with the Chess.com analysis board.  And no, you don't have to have a paid account to access and use it.  Just navigate to Learn -> Analysis.  Once you open it you can simply start making moves from the default setup position.  Or you can set up any custom position on the board and play through it - just go to 'Set Up Position' where you can click on and drag pieces to where you want them, while clicking on and dragging pieces you don't want off the board.  When you are ready to play/analyze, click 'Load'. 

Every move you make is recorded and displayed on the virtual chessboard, and retained, unless/until you delete it (right click on a recorded move to delete).  At any time you can jump/move around to any point within the recorded moves by clicking on any move and it will then display the position on the board at the point of the move you had clicked on.  All previously recorded moves are retained, so that at any time you can return/go to any position in the game that had been previously recorded.  There are many other functionalities as well.  It is easy to use once you figure out how to use it. 

To set up the Analysis Board parameters, click on the gear icon outside the top right of the board, in between it and the analysis text window.  To resize the board, click and drag the sizing icon located outside of and to the lower right of the board.

You can find chess game pgn's on the internet, for example on chessgames.com, 365chess.com or chesstempo.com - these are chess databases from which you can easily access chess games' pgn files (typically for free) for viewing and/or downloading and which you can then copy/paste (i.e., the .pgn text file) into the Chess.com analysis board. 

For example, here Paul Morphy's most famous game....'The Opera Game'...(scroll down the page, immediately below the game text, where you will find embedded links that will allow you to display & copy the pgn text and/or download the .pgn text file for pasting into the the Chess.com analysis board)...

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1233404

A quick way to find game pgn's if you know the players and the date is to do a Google search on the following....

<White player> - <Black player> <game date> .....for example, another famous game...

Capablanca–Tartakower 1924

https://www.google.com/search?q=Capablanca%E2%80%93Tartakower+1924&oq=Capablanca%E2%80%93Tartakower+1924&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i65.242967j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I suggest hiring a chess coach for an hour or so for help with all of these things,  For example the following.  Her name is Lauren.  She is nice, patient, easy to work with....she is located in the Bay Area, California, USA...you can send here a message here on chess.com, or her website...

https://www.chess.com/member/laurengoodkindchess

https://www.chessbylauren.com/

She can help you with everything, including how to use the app on Lichess if you prefer. Although I find Chess.com's app to be much easier to use.  It doesn't get any easier than Chess.com's analysis board, when you consider its functionality.

Finally, a plug for my chess.com blog.....you might discover something of interest...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

This blog has the information you want: https://www.chess.com/blog/SamCopeland/the-best-android-apps-for-chess . Probably Chess PGN Master is what you want, see Sam Copeland's description and link.

@RussBell: Thanks for taking the time to try to help me. I appreciate it. I will see if I can get the chess.com app to do these things.

I don't think I will be hiring a chess coach, however. I'm a senior citizen and even though I've been playing chess off and on for more than 50 years I'm just a casual player and not overly concerned with my rating. Chess coaches cost money, and if I spend any money I would rather spend it on books. 

Tony -

I understand exactly what you are saying.  I am a senior as well.  That's why I had suggested hiring a coach for only an hour or so, to help you with accomplishing the specific issues that you have enquired about.

I'm also in agreement that, next to a good chess coach, chess books are the best way to learn the game.  I have been collecting them for several decades.  In fact, I own all of the books I have recommended in my Chess.com blog articles...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell