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Square Chess

Chess built for square screens, compact devices, e-ink and physical keyboards.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Square Chess is a board game, available on Android.

Gameplay elements described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: play against the computer.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Chess built for square screens, compact devices, e-ink and physical keyboards.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Play against the computer at ten difficulty levels, from beginner-friendly play to full strength.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Play with a friend on the same device, with an optional chess clock.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Square Chess is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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