Next Chess Move is a powerful on-device chess move calculator that supports Stockfish 17 and a growing lineup of engines. With NCM Pro, you can access hardware-accelerated calculations and tablebases, delivering deep analysis for serious players.
Pros & Cons
On-device Stockfish 17 with access to multiple engines
Broad engine lineup including Lc0 and Arasan
NCM Pro provides dedicated hardware (Ryzen CPUs, RTX GPUs) and 6-man syzygy tablebases
Regular maintenance and a focus on stability (e.g., crash fixes)
Lacks publicly marketed openings, puzzles, PGN analysis, and game playback features emphasized by some competitors
About Next Chess Move
Next Chess Move is a board app developed by Next Chess Move LLC.
Download Statistics
Next Chess Move has been downloaded 14 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 110 times.
User Ratings
Next Chess Move is rated 4.34 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 190 ratings.
App Information
Next Chess Move costs $2.99 to download. The APK download size is 119.89 MB. The latest version available is 4.2.1. The last update was on February 14, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Next Chess Move requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since May 2017.
Description
NCM is a powerful chess calculator that runs Stockfish 17 directly on your device. The app also includes access to a growing list of engines running on NCM's single core CPU hardware:
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Good app and very strong engine once you use the dev build, but it leaves me baffled as to why the free website version is almost just as strong even with less thinking time. And when I use the website dev build it's stronger than the app—Weird. They can do a couple of things to improve my experience: 1) allow customizability of the board pieces. 2) Shrink the size of the board by default or have an option for it —this is, so we can use the app in split screen mode. 3)have more engine options.
★★★★★fahmi syarif· Feb 24, 2025
I pay for pro but the app says trial over. Waiting for hours for response from dev, after the problem solved, he gave me one year's extension.
★★★★★Amador Cuesta· Nov 24, 2022
Indispensable and unique chess app with many engines. Yearly purchase to a very strong hardware is also highly recommended.
★★★★★Imran Hossain· Jun 18, 2021
Please update CPU, next chess move calculation hardware setup For coming soon Stock fish 14. CPUs: 4 x Intel Xeon 4xE5-4669v4 Cores: 88 physical / 176 threads RAM: 128 GB DDR4 (available to engines) RAM: 1 TB (available to 6-pieces Syzygy) HDD: 7 TB total
★★☆☆☆Bayu Sri Hernogo· Sep 16, 2021
Bough this app, and always force stop, I will update rating for more stability
★★☆☆☆Suresh Kumar· Nov 17, 2020
I use this app from many days the severs r not up to the mark It was very slow like 8 core not 20 core plz update to give better service
★★☆☆☆AKSHAY CHACKO· Apr 15, 2020
Make a chess play option. So that every time I shouldn't have to click on the calculate button
★☆☆☆☆Saurabh Sharma· Aug 9, 2021
How to calculate when playing with black pieces, flip board just flip the board and still calculate for white.
★☆☆☆☆Avinash Kumar· May 7, 2019
It always says that there was an error communicating with ncm servers I even paid for the pro membership. What a disappointment
Google Play Rankings for Next Chess Move
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Technologies used by Next Chess Move
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Trust & Safety: Permissions include ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, INTERNET, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW, VIBRATE, com.android.vending.BILLING, com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, and com.nextchessmove.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. These enable network access, storage, in-app purchases, and alerting for a feature-rich engine calculator.
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