pychess-variants VS lichobile

I've just tried a chess variant called Shako, where there are two new pieces: Elephant and Cannon. Wowww, the Cannon piece is amazing ! This piece moves and captures like the Cannon in Chinese chess. It's not too powerful, but quite useful. It brings a new perspective and different to attack to the game. The Cannon creates many 'discovered attacks' situations. It's awesome. If you haven't played it yet, give it a try: https://www.pychess.org/

I want to share https://www.pychess.org/ as well - while it doesn't have hexagonal chess, it has tons of variants and you can play both against the computer (that runs fairy stockfish - an engine that works with many chess variants) and against human players

My current favorite is https://www.pychess.org/variants/empire - it's been designed to be wildly asymmetric but actually the balance between the two armies are more even than regular chess' white vs black pieces.

My problem is that there is no literature, no published theory on most chess variants. At least I can't find any theory on empire ehess, and thus I have to develop strategies on my own - but that's how I played chess 20 years ago and it was awful.

The best part of chess IMO is the social aspect of having an evolving theory (or as other games call it, an evolving metagame), and the way we can learn theory to be able to quickly assess who is winning at a given position (a highly nontrivial task), or assess whether a move is "natural" or not.

Is it on https://www.pychess.org yet?

It's already on https://www.pychess.org under the name "Placement Chess".

A few months ago, news broke that Lichess now has a full-time developer for the mobile app. How can I track the development status of the Lichess Mobile App? What features are planned, is there a roadmap? I can't see anything about it on the github page.

I guess that you can keep an eye on the official page: https://lichess.org/mobile

At least on when using the app [this Lichess bug](https://github.com/lichess-org/lichobile/issues/1027) prevents playing any blitz games without taking a bigger rating hit.

lichess (version 7.16.1): free online chess

I have been using the official Android client ( https://github.com/lichess-org/lichobile ), and the only feature I use is anonymous "Quick pairing" games. That is, I do not log into Lichess. The official client does not require login.

It works on the website (desktop and mobile). It will be available in the app soon.

I submitted a PR (for the non-developers: programming code change suggestion) that made the game events emit haptic feedback.

Lichess is actually open source, the mobile app is written in a mixture of typescript, swift and kotlin using ionic capacitor to access the native sdk. I don’t really know the differences between ionic and react native but I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible to write it using the latter. Mind you that the mobile front end it’s just one of the many blocks that constitute the lichess app as a whole