A collection of OEX chess engines that can be integrated in chess GUI apps
About Chess Engines
Chess Engines is a board app developed by Lucian Musca.
How many times has Chess Engines been downloaded?
Chess Engines has been downloaded 26 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 300 times.
What is the rating of Chess Engines?
Chess Engines is rated 4.78 out of 5 stars, based on 150 ratings.
Is Chess Engines free?
Chess Engines is free to download. The APK download size is 145.76 MB. The latest version available is 1.8. The last update was on February 21, 2026.
What are the requirements for Chess Engines?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play February 2024.
Description
The Chess Engines application serves as a companion to a chess GUI application and is not intended for standalone use. It lacks a graphical user interface, functioning solely as a collection of chess engines. These engines can be employed by any Android chess application that offers a GUI for interacting with the chess engine through the OEX (Open Exchange) protocol.
The application bundles native executables for the following open source chess engines: • Stockfish 17.1 - https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2025/stockfish-17-1/ • Stockfish 17 - https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2024/stockfish-17/ • Clover 7.0 https://github.com/lucametehau/CloverEngine
Recommended Chess GUIs: • Analyze your Chess (free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lucian.musca.chess.analyzeyourchess&hl=en • Analyze your Chess Pro (paid) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lucian.musca.chess.analyzeyourchess.pro&hl=en
To utilize the chess engine with the aforementioned GUIs, navigate to the Engine Management Screen > Overflow Menu > Install Open Exchange Engine . From there, select the desired chess engine(s) for installation.
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Where is Engine Clover 8.2.1 ? Or is not available on my phone only?
★★★★★knill gonzaga· Dec 27, 2024
It actually works, I'm using chassis, and I'm able to use stock fish 17 because the available in chassis is only up to stock fish 15. Great work!
★★★★★Kevin Light· Feb 3, 2025
As an avid Chess player I use Stock fish with my GUIs and I am often needing to upgrade SF to the most up-to-date version of this amazing Chess engine. The best way to do this is with an OEX APK engine app. The Chess world owes Lucian a real debt of thanks for creating and keeping up to date this Engines app, so that we can continue to utilize the power of Stock fish! 👏🏻 Three cheers for Lucian!
★☆☆☆☆sukrutha avuti· Nov 6, 2025
139 mb waste Why is that? After downloading this app, a link to another app will appear, For that, you can directly download that app in play store. So I don't like this app
★☆☆☆☆Vaibhav Kshirsagar· Apr 7, 2025
No response from few days, no stock fish 17.1 update release on this app.
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