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ChessTastic™ Beta on Windows Pc

Developed By: AVIJIT GHOSH

License: Free

Rating: 4,5/5 - 190 votes

Last Updated: April 16, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version Beta
Size 2.2 MB
Release Date June 10, 15
Category Strategy Games

Game Permissions:
Allows an application to read from external storage. [see more (1)]

What's New:
Beta 1.2: Fixed chessboard square colors. Sorry for the delay, had been busy. [see more]

Description from Developer:
ChessTastic is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess. It is based on the opensource app Dark Knight and uses the Stockfish C... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download ChessTastic™ Beta and play on Windows PC. ChessTastic™ Beta is free Strategy game, developed by AVIJIT GHOSH. Latest version of ChessTastic™ Beta is Beta, was released on 2015-06-10 (updated on 2024-04-16). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 5,000. Overall rating of ChessTastic™ Beta is 4,5. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 190 users, 7 users had rated it 5*, 127 users had rated it 1*.

How to play ChessTastic™ Beta on Windows?

Instruction on how to play ChessTastic™ Beta on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install ChessTastic™ Beta on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

  1. Install & Play using BlueStacks
  2. Install & Play using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Play ChessTastic™ Beta using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "ChessTastic™ Beta" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play ChessTastic™ Beta on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "ChessTastic™ Beta" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Other versions available: Beta.

Download ChessTastic™ Beta Beta on Windows PC – 2.2 MB

ChessTastic is a fully material designed Android Lollipop optimised game to fully enjoy the wonders of Chess. It is based on the opensource app Dark Knight and uses the Stockfish Chess Engine.


Features
* Opening book
* Unlimited undo/redo
* Copy/paste to/from clipboard
* Analysis mode
* Two player mode
* Computer vs computer mode
* Edit board
* Support for PGN variations
* Multiplayer support coming soon!


Hints
* In game mode, long press chess board to activate copy/paste menu.
* In edit board mode, long press chess board to activate edit menu.
* Scroll left/right on the chess board to undo/redo moves.
* If the game contains multiple variations, scroll up/down on the chess board to go to the previous/next variation.


Analysis
ChessTastic can analyze games to find better alternatives to moves. By using hints described above, players can optimize strategies and use the computer to improve their play. Analysis can be activated in Settings.


Opening book
ChessTastic contains a small internal opening book. If you want to use a larger book, you can configure ChessTastic to use a polyglot book file:
1. Create a directory called ChessTastic on the SD card folder.
2. Copy one or more polyglot book files to the ChessTastic directory.
3. From the program menu, activate the Select opening book function.
4. Select the opening book file you want to use.


PGN files
ChessTastic can load games from PGN files. To use this feature:
1. Create a directory called ChessTastic/pgn on the SD card folder.
2. Copy one or more PGN files to the ChessTastic/pgn directory.
3. Long press the chess board and select Load game from PGN file.
4. Select the file, then the game within the file you want to load.


License
GNU GPL v3

Developers
* Stockfish is developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski.
* Droidfish is developed by Peter Österlund. (http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/)
* Dark Knight is a Honeycomb fork of Droidfish. Its source is available at SourceForge.net.
* ChessTastic is a Lollipop fork of Droidfish and Dark Knight. Sources available at https://github.com/AvijitGhosh82/material-chess-android . Do help me out if possible!
Beta 1.2: Fixed chessboard square colors. Sorry for the delay, had been busy.
Allows an application to read from external storage.