Pulsar Chess Engine

Name: Pulsar Chess Engine
Rating: 3.7142856 (179 reviews)
Author: Mike Adams

By: Mike Adams Game

Computer Chess Playing Program, Variants - Chess960. Analyze Classic Games, PGN

Features & Capabilities

The Pulsar Chess Engine offers an immersive chess experience featuring six exciting variants including Chess960, Crazyhouse, Atomic, Loser's, Giveaway, and Three Checks. Designed originally in 1998 and refined over years, this engine supports classic game collections from legends like Kasparov, Carlsen, and Morphy, providing rich analysis with Stockfish integration. Play offline with adjustable difficulty levels, customizable board themes, and accessibility via Talkback for visually impaired players.

Beyond standard chess, Pulsar invites users to explore unique gameplay modes and analyze games thoroughly with PGN support. It also supports two-player mode and logs completed games for review. The engine adapts to different play styles, valuing open and mobile positions, and offers a user-friendly interface with multi-language support for move announcements. Pulsar remains a dedicated, ad-free chess engine catering to enthusiasts and players seeking both classic and variant chess challenges.

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5.31 Last updated: 2025-08-18

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Creation date:

2019-01-12

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Permissions:

android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk

Size:

6.95MB

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la*****@gmail.com

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Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-14

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# 399,004 ▼ 2,298

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Developed by:

Mike Adams

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lantern.michaeladams.pulsarchessengine

Email:

la*****@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.LanternChess.com/pulsar/

User Reviews

Pulsar Chess Engine is praised for its strong, human-like AI and support for multiple chess variants, making it appealing for both playing and learning chess basics. The app's fast, ad-free, and responsive design enhances user experience. However, users report missing key features like saving games, managing multiple PGN files, and certain variant mechanics such as pawn promotion options. The engine is generally strong but not on par with Stockfish, and occasional bugs and missing analysis features limit its overall functionality.

Pros

Strong chess engine that plays like a human and provides a good balance of challenge and learning.
Supports various chess variants including crazyhouse and atomic chess, offering diverse gameplay options.
No ads and a smooth, fast, and responsive user interface.
Offers options to improve AI behavior through settings like breadth and evaluation preferences.
Helpful for learning chess basics with move popularity statistics shown for responses.

Cons

Lacks a proper save feature to save completed games, which users want to preserve for review.
Inability to open multiple PGN files simultaneously causing inconvenience in game analysis.
Engine has limitations in strength compared to Stockfish and can be relatively easy to beat at standard difficulty levels.
Some features are missing or incomplete in variants, e.g., no option to promote to a king when promoting pawns in reverse variants.
Buggy behavior such as repetitive moves leading to forced draws and missing features like viewing other grandmaster games or piece capture banks.

Recent reviews

This app cannot accept defeat. It will keep making the same move back and forth till it's called a draw. The atomic variation is impossible.

GJ*****, 2025-01-08

It doesn't save every move man but nice ai plus u can improve ur ai by ordering the breadth and evaluating it by order and also u can make the ai evaluate the board based on what square it is attacking on even if there is no piece on there, there are too many ways to improve the ai plus I am not sure why but I could make the time based ai work by iteration deepening too, the problem with this ai is that it mostly sees 7 to 9 moves ahead in extreme difficulty mod with large amount of time