Chess Widget - Fianchetto turns your Android home screen into a living chess dashboard for chess puzzles, live games, tournaments, broadcasts, and quick study.
Built around widgets from the start, Fianchetto lets you train, follow, and enjoy chess without constantly opening a full app. Add a board to your home screen, choose a mode, style it your way, and keep chess visible throughout the day.
What you can do with Chess Widget - Fianchetto:
Solve chess puzzles from your home screen
Practice tactics in short, focused sessions. Tap a piece, tap a square, solve the line, and move to the next puzzle. Puzzle mode supports themes such as opening, middlegame, endgame, mate, fork, pin, and sacrifice, with difficulty options that can adapt to your level when connected.
Follow your ongoing games
Connect your Lichess account and keep your current games visible as widgets. See the board, moves, clocks, and game state at a glance so you can play your games!
Watch Live TV chess
Choose from multiple Live TV channels, including bullet, blitz, rapid, classical, Chess960, crazyhouse, three-check, king of the hill, racing kings, horde, atomic, antichess, bot, and computer games. Your home screen can stay alive with fresh chess action.
Track tournaments and broadcasts
Follow tournament boards, live broadcasts, rounds, and event-style chess from your launcher. Fianchetto is made for the moments when you want a board always visible while you work, study, relax, or watch an event unfold.
Train endgames
Use Endgame Trainer mode to practice conversion and technique directly inside the widget. Keep endgame work close, simple, and repeatable.
Analyze positions
Use Analysis mode to keep a position on your home screen and test ideas quickly. Great for study positions, FEN-based practice, or reviewing a board you want to keep in sight.
Create a multi-widget chess dashboard
Add more than one widget and give each widget its own mode, board style, accent color, and size. You can build a puzzle board, a live game board, a tournament board, and a Live TV widget side by side.
Recent update highlights:
Fresh board themes and visual upgrades
The latest updates added more expressive board styles, smoother widget polish, glass-inspired visuals, creative themes, and improved theme handling across devices.
New and improved customization
Choose from Classic, Blue, Green, Mono, Brown, Midnight, Rose, Sand, Mint, Violet, Obsidian, Coral, Wood, Marble, Purple, Neon, Royal, Forest, Ocean, Candy, Ice, and newer creative styles such as Obsidian Glass, Paper, Neon Grid, and Sunrise. Supported Nothing devices also get Dot Matrix, Glyph, and Phosphor-inspired themes.
Curated preset layouts
Try ready-made setups such as Dual Puzzle, Live Arena, Full Spectrum, and Command Centre. These presets help you quickly build a home screen with multiple widgets, different chess modes, and distinct visual styles.
Free and Pro access
The free version includes core chess widget features and selected themes. Optional Pro access unlocks more customization, premium styling options, piece sets, accent colors, opacity controls, and an ad-free paid app option. Rewarded access may also be available in the free app where supported.
Why chess players will enjoy it:
- Real chess boards on your home screen
- Fast puzzle practice without opening a full app
- Live games, tournaments, broadcasts, and TV-style chess in widget form
- Multiple widgets with independent settings
- Clean themes that can match your launcher
- Useful for tactics, live following, casual study, and daily chess habits
- Built for quick glances and short chess sessions
Chess Widget - Fianchetto is for players who want chess to feel closer: one glance away, one tap away, always part of the home screen.
Recent changes:
🎨 New Themes & Visual Overhaul
• Added creative new "Nothing Exclusive" widget themes: Neon Grid, Obsidian Glass, Paper, Sunrise, and more
• Redesigned button styles across all themes for a polished, cohesive look
• New Minimal and Nothing-inspired exclusive theme variants
• Improved typography and layout consistency across widget sizes
⚙️ Other
• Better support across Android versions and launcher environments
• Improved the next puzzle rendering speed
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