SmallFish Chess for Stockfish is an entertainment strategy game developed by Ted Wong. Available for $4.99, it was updated to v18.90 on May 09, 2025, and currently holds a 4.78 out of 5 rating based on 4.1K reviews. Before downloading, make sure your device has at least 181 MB of free space and runs Android 13+ or iOS 14.0+.
Stockfish Chess
SmallFish Chess for Stockfish Gameplay Overview
Description
SmallFish is a project based on the Stockfish chess engine. It uses the latest Stockfish chess engine (Stockfish 17.1), rated about Elo 3600+ and is the strongest chess app on the App Store.
How to Play SmallFish Chess for Stockfish on PC or Mac
SmallFish Chess for Stockfish can be played on Windows and macOS using Android emulators such as BlueStacks. Download an APK version and follow our BlueStacks installation guide to get started. For help with downloading or installing APK files, visit our forums.
Could you create a 2 player mode? Basically an option to flip the pieces so they face you if you are on the opposite side, and an option to hide everything and have the board take center, with the pieces taken on the sides?
★★☆☆☆Performance doesn’t seem to be optimized
I expected it to be much faster than the Stockfish engine in chess com or lichess since it’s presumably using compiled binaries rather than JavaScript. Unfortunately it’s quite often slower. It appears to recalculate every position tbh.
It can be faster to get to a high depth (30+) but it’s inconsistent. Perhaps something to do with how the hash table or threading works with iPhone (13 pro max) memory/cpu management.
Also if you try to evaluate a variation while analyzing a past game it overwr
★★★★★Just add depth limiting
I love this app! But I would love to see search depth limiting, like instead of 20+ moves ahead I would like to limit it to just 5 moves ahead. Maybe that would allow it to make more human type moves and it would be easier to learn why its suggested move is the best move. Great app though!
★★★★★Good
Nice app. I saw someone say make there be an option to set the engines depth it thinks to before making a move. That would be good.
★★★★☆Work for me
It does what I need. I needed a tool to setup chess puzzles and to analyze chess positions. Plus I need a method to study chess games. It works for me!
Update: For improvement, could you allow analysis to show other possible moves. When I am looking at my mistakes, it was nice to keep the original game and add where I could have gone!
