Lantern Chess - ICC Online
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2.79for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Lantern Chess - ICC Online
Play, watch, chat and video on the Internet Chess Club as a member, trial or as a guest with no signup. Anyone can 'Connect as Guest' and play unrated.
50 current In-App Chess Videos
Opening Explorer
Dark Mode
SupportBlack Board background choice with or without Dark Mode
Tournament Support
Sign up or no signup play
Engine Analysis
Seek Graph
Rated Pool Options
On-board Pulse Chess Engine with levels and Chess, Chess960 and variants
Watch Fide Master, International Master, and Grandmaster games
Open PGN Game collections shared with App
Save To PGN
Logs played games
Chat and Channels
Custom Colors or Preset Board Choices
For play, the Find a Game board option opens a three tabbed view with a Seek Graph, Seek Form and Pool Options like 5-minute. Another option is Join Tournaments. Any game type can be played unrated with no signup. Many features are completely free and don't require signup.
Engine analysis is available when observing and examining. Guests can examine games too, using Action menu on board. Also for members and trials, numerous options to choose from like 50 of the current chess instructional videos to watch in app. These are typically longer, 45-50 minutes, many given by grandmasters. There is an updating top games list to watch or international chess broadcast games to observe live and examine later. Lantern seeks to be a complete chess app for studying and learning.
Chessclub.com is one of the oldest online chess clubs and has been producing chess video for over 15 years and currently has a searchable library of 3000 chess videos available for members and trials to watch. Many feature Grandmasters.
There is a computer play option on board against the Pulsar Chess Engine that supports chess and chess960 with levels and some other variants. This is available offline as well and with no internet. There is also an Opening Explorer view option on board with engine analysis and load PGN also available offline. Both can be used with no signup. All games played in-app are also saved to PGN and can be opened in this view. Just go to Actions - Open Pgn on board. PGN files can be shared with the app. This also doesn't require signup or internet.
There is a settings tab with board and pieces choices and options like premove or moving between touch touch and drag move can be set in settings.
For members there's a channels window to quickly join and chat on channels. For advanced chatters the channels window can be changed to Split Chat in console settings. The console can be used to chat or send commands if desired.
Lantern Chess has a play bots option on board for guests and members and tactical and endgame training is available.
Lantern's board is accessible for the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over. With Voice Over on in device settings users can tap on a square to have it said what's on a square and double tap selects. Moves are announced as well with Voice Over. We are in 5 languages including Spanish and Voice Over will use device language setting.
The internal chess engine offers chess and chess960 at multiple levels as well as five chess variants: Crazyhouse, Loser's Chess, Atomic Chess, Three Checks, and Giveaway(also known as Suicide Chess). Change from chess to a variant or modify difficulty in the engine board's "Game" menu - new game.
The Opening Explorer is made from high rated FIDE games(both players rated over 2300). Users can add notes to positions in the Explorer View and mark moves with colors(green, yellow, red). The control bar on the Openings Board brings up these options.
50 current In-App Chess Videos
Opening Explorer
Dark Mode
SupportBlack Board background choice with or without Dark Mode
Tournament Support
Sign up or no signup play
Engine Analysis
Seek Graph
Rated Pool Options
On-board Pulse Chess Engine with levels and Chess, Chess960 and variants
Watch Fide Master, International Master, and Grandmaster games
Open PGN Game collections shared with App
Save To PGN
Logs played games
Chat and Channels
Custom Colors or Preset Board Choices
For play, the Find a Game board option opens a three tabbed view with a Seek Graph, Seek Form and Pool Options like 5-minute. Another option is Join Tournaments. Any game type can be played unrated with no signup. Many features are completely free and don't require signup.
Engine analysis is available when observing and examining. Guests can examine games too, using Action menu on board. Also for members and trials, numerous options to choose from like 50 of the current chess instructional videos to watch in app. These are typically longer, 45-50 minutes, many given by grandmasters. There is an updating top games list to watch or international chess broadcast games to observe live and examine later. Lantern seeks to be a complete chess app for studying and learning.
Chessclub.com is one of the oldest online chess clubs and has been producing chess video for over 15 years and currently has a searchable library of 3000 chess videos available for members and trials to watch. Many feature Grandmasters.
There is a computer play option on board against the Pulsar Chess Engine that supports chess and chess960 with levels and some other variants. This is available offline as well and with no internet. There is also an Opening Explorer view option on board with engine analysis and load PGN also available offline. Both can be used with no signup. All games played in-app are also saved to PGN and can be opened in this view. Just go to Actions - Open Pgn on board. PGN files can be shared with the app. This also doesn't require signup or internet.
There is a settings tab with board and pieces choices and options like premove or moving between touch touch and drag move can be set in settings.
For members there's a channels window to quickly join and chat on channels. For advanced chatters the channels window can be changed to Split Chat in console settings. The console can be used to chat or send commands if desired.
Lantern Chess has a play bots option on board for guests and members and tactical and endgame training is available.
Lantern's board is accessible for the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over. With Voice Over on in device settings users can tap on a square to have it said what's on a square and double tap selects. Moves are announced as well with Voice Over. We are in 5 languages including Spanish and Voice Over will use device language setting.
The internal chess engine offers chess and chess960 at multiple levels as well as five chess variants: Crazyhouse, Loser's Chess, Atomic Chess, Three Checks, and Giveaway(also known as Suicide Chess). Change from chess to a variant or modify difficulty in the engine board's "Game" menu - new game.
The Opening Explorer is made from high rated FIDE games(both players rated over 2300). Users can add notes to positions in the Explorer View and mark moves with colors(green, yellow, red). The control bar on the Openings Board brings up these options.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.79
Last updated on Dec 11, 2021
Old Versions
bug fixes
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Version History
2.79
Dec 11, 2021
bug fixes
2.78
Dec 7, 2021
Fix for tab bar coloring in dark mode
Added 1-minute choice to Seek a Game Option on Board
Fix to Connect view to make sure it can always load the saved name and pass
Fixed it so so an error message shows in consoles and board when sending data to ICC and disconnected
Added 1-minute choice to Seek a Game Option on Board
Fix to Connect view to make sure it can always load the saved name and pass
Fixed it so so an error message shows in consoles and board when sending data to ICC and disconnected
2.77
Dec 3, 2021
Fix for long press menu in consoles that broke in 2.76
2.76
Dec 1, 2021
fixed font being to large in typing area
2.75
Nov 13, 2021
For members and trials: 50 chess videos to watch in-app
Settings now organized into sections
Seek a game form now has all controls fit in one page with no scrolling on phone
Options in settings to move more chat types to game console
Option to not timestamp chat
iPad now supports split screen
Safe chat implemented with options to block and report and clear chat
Settings now organized into sections
Seek a game form now has all controls fit in one page with no scrolling on phone
Options in settings to move more chat types to game console
Option to not timestamp chat
iPad now supports split screen
Safe chat implemented with options to block and report and clear chat
2.70
Jun 13, 2020
Challenge Popups with Accept or Decline. This can be turned off on Settings tab
Join Tournaments option on Board tab
Join Tournaments option on Board tab
2.66
May 23, 2020
App will no longer disconnect immediately on a screen lock but give a half minute to minute before closing socket
Four tournament channels added to channels list on channels tab
Four tournament channels added to channels list on channels tab
2.65
May 21, 2020
Engine analysis available when observing or examining not just in openings study view
2.60
May 16, 2020
Supports Dark mode and now a Black Board option in settings
Support for all iPhone sizes and no longer letterboxed on tallest iPhones
Can make font bigger now in settings than before
Internal Chess engine which has levels now offers Chess960
Improved guest experience only showing guests options they can use
Support for all iPhone sizes and no longer letterboxed on tallest iPhones
Can make font bigger now in settings than before
Internal Chess engine which has levels now offers Chess960
Improved guest experience only showing guests options they can use
2.57
Jan 24, 2020
German Translation
In variants Loser's Chess and Giveaway lantern will ignore auto queen if on and provide a promotion dialog
In variants Loser's Chess and Giveaway lantern will ignore auto queen if on and provide a promotion dialog
2.56
Nov 20, 2019
localized now in Spanish and French
2.55
Nov 14, 2019
Made default connection on connection tab chessclub.com port 5000 and the alternate for those who 5000 port is blocked, main.chessclub.com port 443. Not all users were able to connect on main.chessclub.com, or the old alt1.chessclub.com which resolves to same IP as the main.chessclub.com, which should be resolved in the future.
2.54
Nov 12, 2019
increased timeout on connect from five seconds to sixty to allow a connection if there is delay connecting.
2.53
Nov 4, 2019
fixes for things that got broken with iOS 13 such as save name and pass, the channels tab, and move view up when keyboard appears
now when connecting to main.chessclub.com we use port 443 which chessclub recommends
now when connecting to main.chessclub.com we use port 443 which chessclub recommends
2.52
Oct 27, 2019
Support for main.chessclub.com the new connection standard at ICC vs the old chessclub.com
2.51
Aug 10, 2019
Fixed bug introduced in 2.50 where scroll back arrows for observed games were appearing in played games when it was blacks turn to move
Scroll back arrows now on for sposition games. sposition is a way to view moves of game without examining
Scroll back arrows now on for sposition games. sposition is a way to view moves of game without examining
2.50
Aug 6, 2019
Updated to have scroll back in observed games not just examined games
2.40
Jul 10, 2019
The ability to observe multiple games at once
First Italian translation
First Italian translation
2.32
Mar 22, 2019
Fixed bug in the play the computer mode and the openings study mode were if one rook moved twice on second move it turned off the right of king to castle with the other rook.
2.31
Mar 18, 2019
Added a computers and training area to options menu on ICC board.
The opening study and play the computer options on board tab's options menu now accessible to the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over
The opening study and play the computer options on board tab's options menu now accessible to the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over
2.30
Mar 12, 2019
Board and Consoles are now accessible for the blind and vision impaired using voice over. With voice over on if the user taps on a square like e2 it will say something like "e2 white pawn" or "e2 empty" double tap to select. It's recommended drag move be disabled if on. Moves are announced if voice over is on as they come in.
2.25
Feb 28, 2019
Support for third party keyboards in two consoles, main and channels
On channels tab if the user adds a custom channel it adds it to channels list for next time but not saved between app lauches
On channels tab if the user adds a custom channel it adds it to channels list for next time but not saved between app lauches
2.24
Feb 4, 2019
New channels tab for easy selection of channels to enter. An option to restore tab three to the previous split chat tab is available in settings
Wood Grain 2 option for board background added
Bug on removing a channel causing it to think you logged in again fixed
Wood Grain 2 option for board background added
Bug on removing a channel causing it to think you logged in again fixed
2.23
Jan 21, 2019
In play the computer option now the onboard engine can better detect draw by repetition to avoid that, handle in atomic variant en passant captures
Slight delay added in untimed games in play the computer option on computer's move
Fix in play the computer option for some latency in moving the pieces on some devices when sound is on
Slight delay added in untimed games in play the computer option on computer's move
Fix in play the computer option for some latency in moving the pieces on some devices when sound is on
2.22
Sep 6, 2018
Openings View accessible on Board Tab's Options menu has a bigger opening book, move now for the crafty engine, and an option to save the current board to PGN which can be exported
The play the computer view now remembers the last game type played such as difficulty level and on launching the app when the user moves without setting up a new game it will be that personality
The play the computer view now remembers the last game type played such as difficulty level and on launching the app when the user moves without setting up a new game it will be that personality
Lantern Chess - ICC Online FAQ
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iPhone
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
Mac
Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
Lantern Chess - ICC Online supports English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
