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iPhone

About Next Chess Move

NCM is a powerful chess calculator that runs Stockfish 16.1 directly on your device. The app also includes free access to a growing list of engines running on NCM's remote single core CPU hardware:

• Stockfish latest official releases and development builds
• Lc0 (all official networks and several contrib networks)
• GNU Chess
• Arasan
• Berserk
• Black Marlin
• Caissa
• Cfish
• Clover
• Combusken
• CorChess
• Counter
• Defenchess
• Demolito
• Devre
• Ethereal
• Fire
• Frozenight
• Halogen
• Igel
• Koivisto
• Laser
• Lc0
• Mantissa
• Marvin
• Minic
• Nalwald
• Nemorino
• OpenTal
• Pawn
• Rice
• RubiChess
• Seer
• ShashChess
• Smallbrain
• Stash
• Stockfish
• Stormphrax
• Sunfish
• Tucano
• Vajolet2
• Velvet
• Viridithas
• Wasp
• Weiss
• Winter
• Xiphos
• asmFish

The optional NCM Pro in-app purchase provides one year access to powerful hardware and features that significantly enhance the strength of calculations:

• Ryzen 5950X 16 CPU-core servers
• RTX 2080 GPUs for LcZero
• 6-man syzygy tablebases on SSD drives

What's New in the Latest Version 4.4.0

Last updated on Apr 11, 2024

Old Versions

- Upgrading to Stockfish 16.1
- Updating list of remote engines

Version History

4.4.0

Apr 11, 2024

- Upgrading to Stockfish 16.1
- Updating list of remote engines

4.3.0

Aug 10, 2023

- Upgrading to Stockfish 16
- Updating list of remote engines
- Upgrading dependencies

4.2.13

Mar 1, 2023

- Adding link to account settings webpage
- Bugfix: occasional "process not found" error

4.2.12

Feb 1, 2023

- Updating list of remote engines
- Bugfix: tap to move sometimes not selecting piece

4.2.11

Jan 11, 2023

- Updating Lc0 version to 0.29.0

4.2.10

Dec 8, 2022

- Bugfix: ensure all calculation progress is rendered

4.2.9

Dec 8, 2022

- Upgrading to Stockfish 15.1
- Updating list of remote engines
- Upgrading dependencies

4.2.8

Jun 12, 2022

- Upgrading dependencies

4.2.7

Jun 5, 2022

- Performance improvements
- Updating list of remote engines

4.2.6

May 7, 2022

- Upgrading to Stockfish 15
- Upgrading to Lc0 0.28.2
- Upgrading dependencies
- Adding ShashChess
- Bugfix: crash when double-tapping king

4.2.5

Nov 1, 2021

- Upgrading to Stockfish 14.1

4.2.4

Sep 28, 2021

- Bugfix: rendering issues when OS dark mode enabled
- Upgrading dependencies

4.2.3

Sep 1, 2021

- Updating Lc0 version to 0.28.0
- Updating list of remote engines

4.2.2

Jul 31, 2021

- Upgrading dependencies
- Updating list of remote engines

4.2.1

Jul 14, 2021

- Bugfix: making saved board names editable again

4.2.0

Jul 12, 2021

- Upgrading to Stockfish 14
- Updating list of remote engines

4.1.0

Feb 22, 2021

- Upgrading to Stockfish 13
- Updating Lc0 version to 0.27.0
- Improvements to PGN parsing
- Bugfix: en passant target square sometimes not being set
- Bugfix: saved boards pull-to-refresh
- Bugfix: rendering issues when OS dark mode enabled

4.0.0

Feb 14, 2021

- Adding more remote engines
- Adding more LcZero contrib networks
- Real-time calculation display
- Stop calculation button

3.3.0

Sep 13, 2020

- Upgrading to Stockfish 12
- UI performance improvements

3.2.0

Apr 27, 2020

- VoiceOver support
- Adding tap-to-move setting
- Removing invalid castling options when pasting FEN

3.1.1

Apr 18, 2020

- Fixing bug that would sometimes cause remote Stockfish 11 to become disabled

3.1.0

Jan 19, 2020

- Upgrading to Stockfish 11

3.0.7

Jan 5, 2020

- Adding PV explorer to engine output

3.0.6

Jan 2, 2020

- Fix for bug causing random sign-outs when rapidly switching between NCM and other apps
- Fix for bug causing full move history to be sent when calculating for positions mid-history

3.0.5

Dec 18, 2019

- Fix for bug causing some online board moves to be reverted

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