How to install Stockfish 13 in android phone.

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drmrboss

This is Stockfish 13 running in my smartphone, the strongest known chess engine ever existed in smart phone ( technically Stockfish 14 developmental version is +1.4 elo stronger than Stockfish 13)

 

 

Unfortunately it is not available in well known droidfish apps as the authour says droidfish GUI doesnt support certain features. .

 

How to get Stockfish 13?

 

1. You need to run droidfish on F-Droid platform , rather than Googleplay. 

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.petero.droidfish/

( you also need to allow installing 3rd party apps in your phone setting)

 

2. After installing FDroid, you search droidfish in the platform

 

Enjoy new Stockfish 13.

To improve performance of Stockfish, check my previous posts. 

 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-to-set-up-your-droidfish-android-stockfish-properly

 

 

llama47

the NN enhanced engines are very cool. Now with limited hardware (such as a phone) you can get a fairly outrageously strong playing machine.

sndeww
llama47 hat geschrieben:

the NN enhanced engines are very cool. Now with limited hardware (such as a phone) you can get a fairly outrageously strong playing machine.

Reminded me of gothamchess's video of two cheaters playing against each other... the stronger cheater clapped the weaker one, who was using chess.com's engine.

llama47

I've cheated against cheaters before. They pause near the end, as if to wonder how their s**tty engine lost when I'm using stockfish. I imagine they're some non-playing idiot using a crappy engine they found on their Nintendo switch or something.

sndeww

bruh what, how do they know you were cheating? Or was it some engine allowed game

llama47

Unrated L* games, and this only happens like... once every 2-3 years. I have to meet an obvious cheater, and they have to offer a rematch, and I have to be mad enough at them to load up my engine.

After the COVID boom I started running into a lot of cheaters in unrated games, so no I never accept a rematch now (they'd lose, rematch, and cheat) so I don't know when I'll ever have the chance to do this again.

sndeww

Heh, gothamchess really showed how to identify them, though... "Of course, black has to spend five seconds calculating the only move"

sndeww

When I see that they can't play a basic rook and pawn endgame that's obviously drawn I just cringe so hard. I still haven't even reviewed the material yet and I know what to play, or at least I can play by principle. "trade pawns, active rook, etc..."

or just premove and flag. 

llama47

Yeah, he had some good tips to catch the people who make it obvious... apparently this made some people on L* forums mad though. They accuse him of making it up, and accuse chess.com of giving him the power to ban people. I told them that was dumb and they downvoted me heh.

sndeww

people on that website downvote everything that isn't fit with their snowflake community. Anything longer than a paragraph and doesn't contain "omg great job" gets downvotes.

duntcare

that sounds more like reddit

duntcare

here instead it contains more uhh

something

sid0049

Thanks