Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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The best multi-purpose chess suite for mobile devices.
I invite you to read the review. Enjoy!

https://www.chessengeria.com/post/acid- ... ion-review
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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Indeed. The software is awesome, development stalled btw.?

And a huge BUT. It checks its license ONLINE at every session. After maybe a minute in, if no license checking success, the app will close.

So - On a failure, be it your network connection, be it an error on whatever server end they use: You will not play chess with AAC.

This is my AAC right now and obviously my internet connection is working.

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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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Yeah, it tries to but cannot connect to aacapi.acidapestudios.com:443 and aacapi2.acidapestudios.com:443. No playing then. Contacted dev. IDK if he is still active.
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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No change, no dev reply, no nothing. Any AAC Grandmaster Edition users here? Does it work for you, please?
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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It stalls at the connection screen for me too.
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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Yes, now it shows that the app start is 100% dependent on a) internet connection and b) a working remote server. Otherwise, no playing. Bad. Received no reply from developer. Not this time, not a month ago when I made a suggestion.
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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MMarco wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 5:57 amIt stalls at the connection screen for me too.
With an unrooted phone, there's no way to access the pgn's of saved games now. 😭 IDK if maybe with a USB connection and PC...
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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I've uploaded a video covering all the features.

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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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It's working again.
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Re: Acid Ape Chess Grandmaster Edition - Review

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Dead again. Only worked for a day, I reported to Google again, it's software with no functionality.