Fidchell2.25

Fidchell, which is also called Faery Chess or Celtic Chess, is an ancient celtic game which was mentioned in multiple Irish epics and chronicles. Under the name of Gwyddbwyll it also appears in the Welsh Mabinogion and seems to have been held in peculiar reverence throughout the British Isles. Faery Chess is what emerged from Nigel Suckling's investigations and speculations about the lost game.

The game is played an a board consisting of circles and lines on which the game pieces are placed and can move along. Similar to games like the ancient abstract board game Nine Men's Morris the pieces are first placed onto the board in turn and moved afterwards once all of them have been placed. The capturing of pieces works differently though and is alike to Tafl games: a piece gets captured if a player traps it between two of his own pieces. This even grants him another move with which he may trap another one and so on.

The app features two variants of the game: the basic edition which is easier to understand and where both players are treated equally and the advanced version which has different goals for both players. The general goal is to connect the central Naval stone with the border of the board by forming a connected line of stones.

This app features both game modes for offline play against a human or the computer/AI and asynchronous online play against humans.

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Version History - Fixed a problem with the server certificates.
- Improved the speed of the AI.
- Fixed a label that wasn't translated upon language change.
- Updated the translation files.
- It is now possible to undo chain moves of the AI that are longer than 2 moves in a row. 2.25 08/12/2024 Added the planning mode.
Improved the undo function for online matches in combination with chained moves.
Added language support for Toki Pona. 2.20 02/17/2022 Fixed a problem that prevented the starting of matches on some devices. 2.19.1 09/05/2021 The AI will now continue to play if you issue a challenge in advanced mode.
The AI will currently not issue challenges themselves though. We are working on that.
This changelog will now be shown for all languages. It didn't work in some like Polish.
Added the tracking transparency dialog to configure the tracking options.
Added the option to delete your account. This will affect all Fellhuhn games.
Updated the translations. 2.19 08/23/2021 Opening online matches that resulted in a draw is possible now.
Invites will now show the set timeout for each move.
Invites can be declined now.
Corrected the display of the ELO ratings in some places.
Bulgarian translation added.
Matches without timeouts will now show the correct info in the game summary.
Added an online indicator which will show if a player has been active recently. 2.16 02/11/2021 When using the Player Search function their profiles can now be opened again.
Invitations can be accepted (or declined again).
Fixed the chat. It should work again.
Online matches can now have custom timeouts set. Previously this was only possible with invites.
Challenges are currently still limited to a 2 week timeout.
Added the new timeout value of 2 hours.
Fixed the invitation bug where the invite remained in the main menu even after accepting or declining it. 2.13 11/17/2020 Challenges should work now. When a challenge fails pieces can be removed now. The display whose turn it is now also updates during a challenge.
Accepted (or declined) invites should now be updated correctly in the main menu.
The AI won't be able to perform illegal moves anymore.
Improved stability. 2.12 09/27/2020 Games can be joined via the Match Browser again.
The Match Browser won't show the ELO values of players anymore if they are still in their evaluation phase. 2.11 09/01/2020 2.10 08/28/2020