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SmallFish Chess for Stockfish App Reviews

The SmallFish Chess for Stockfish app recently received 12 positive reviews on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, and 1 negative reviews. Users in the United States have given SmallFish Chess for Stockfish app an average rating of 4.78 out of 5 stars, based on a total of 4.1K ratings since its release on May 25 by Ted Wong. Can you share your positive or negative thoughts about SmallFish Chess for Stockfish?

Ratings and Reviews
Rated 4.58 out of 5

4.1K global ratings

5 Star
75%
4 Star
8%
3 Star
8%
2 Star
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12 Positive User Reviews for SmallFish Chess for Stockfish

Great app. Highly recommend it.

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?

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!

Missing features

Embedded folders, navigating through games in PGN under the chessboard , advanced Stockfish settings, opening book selection.

Small

Small fish over stockfish or alpha zero

Simply the best…

“SmallFish” is simply the best mobile chess app I have ever used. There are too many great features to list here! I am a beginner player, and your app has already helped me greatly improve my play. Superb app in every way!

Super

Just wondering when we can expect an update for stockfish 18

Teehee

Thanks for letting me cheat at chess jk

Awesome

Among the few chess apps that do exactly what you need them to do. Very user friendly.

Awesome chess program!!!

You’re going to love it!

1 Negative User Reviews for SmallFish Chess for Stockfish

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