[teleforce]

Honest question, is there any open source non-subscription based no-frill virtual chess board on Android that allows you to simply play chess offline against human or AI, in the same spirit as VLC on Android?

[stavros]

Lichess is fully open source and the best chess platform right now, online or offline.

[__jonas]

lichess is open source and has an android app

[Zizizizz]

For convenience...

https://lichess.org

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lichess.mo...

[teleforce]

Great, thanks for the suggestion.

Apparently, Lichess has 'Over the board' feature that allows you to play with your friend offline, nice!

[naet]

It also has a pretty good chess clock if you have a physical board but want to play timed.

[mat_epice]

It also lets you play an engine (stockfish) running on your phone. I play offline on planes all the time.

[jmfldn]

Written in Scala I believe which makes me love it even more (Scala fan here!).

[graphe]

Vouching for this, best chess app ever. Also offers a website!

[tetris11]

Chess (Chess program and FICS client) https://f-droid.org/packages/jwtc.android.chess/

JustChess (Chess for one or two players) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.alaskalinuxuser.justchess/

[hereonout2]

Not open source but chess.com app is brilliant, it's a freemium model - you can play for free - but they just keep trying to sell you tip and tutorials.

Also seems to have all the grand masters on there as players, Magnus ignored my request for a game though.