Bring your A-game to Acid Ape Chess GM Edition, the Board game sensation from Acid Ape Studios. Give your gameplay the much-needed boost with precise game controls, high FPS graphics, and top-tier features on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks.
About the Game
Acid Ape Chess GM Edition is the serious player’s all-in-one chess workspace—fast, clean, and loaded with tools you’ll actually use. Prep openings, spar with brutal engines, or jump online for a quick game without juggling apps or tabs. Want the big-screen feel? It runs smoothly on PC with BlueStacks.
Game Features
- Online play, your way: Log in to FICS, ICC, or Lichess to play, watch live games, browse player histories, and chat in a low-key panel that doesn’t cover the board.
- Engine sparring: Face UCI or CECP engines, set up engine vs. engine duels, and tune behavior to your liking. Three strong engines are built in (Arasan, cheng4, Scorpio), and you can add third‑party engines, neural nets, and your own opening books (PolyGlot .bin, Arena .abk).
- Deep analysis toolkit: Run multiple engines at once, view principal variations, stats, and evaluation graphs, and tap into Syzygy 7‑man tablebases. Auto‑annotate games, auto‑play best moves, and build clean variation trees with a dedicated move‑list editor.
- Massive database access: Premium tools include an online database with 260M positions, 4.5M games spanning the 1800s–2025, and 330K OTB players. Power the opening explorer, search by player, opening, or rating, and use it as an opening book for engines.
- PGN powerhouse: Autosave your games, manage files with the PGN Explorer, edit headers and annotations, import/export, use the clipboard, and share PGNs with ease.
- OTB essentials: Follow live boards from major events, use a slick fullscreen clock, search the database mid‑prep, and play OTP (two players on one device).
- Real boards and clocks: Connect DGT e‑Boards and clocks (Bluetooth or USB) and play online, engine, or OTB games with your physical setup. DGT drivers are the only optional purchase in the app.
- Blindfold and voice: Hide the board and move list, speak your moves, and have opponent moves read out loud.
- Tactics and simuls: Tackle 900 puzzles across three difficulty levels, import your own PGN sets, and run simuls against 2–16 engines—blindfold if you’re feeling bold.
- Variants and style: Play Chess960, swap among elegant board and piece themes, set up custom positions, and add player details with title, flag, and rating.
- Clocks and stats: Use a hardware‑style LCD chess clock with sounds and flags, a standalone clock app for non‑connected games, and personal head‑to‑head stats.
- Built‑in manual: A thorough in‑app guide presented like a book, packed with examples, use cases, and tips.
Make your gaming sessions memorable with precise controls that give you an edge in close combats and visuals that pop up, bringing every character to life.
