Action Menu

action buttons

Action buttons on a tablet without an overflow button.

If the overflow button is not visible, as in the example above, press the hardware menu on your device to show all available actions not displayed in the action bar.

Game List Button

game list button

Game list button.

The game list button is used to show and hide the game list. On a tablet in landscape mode, you can gain more space for the game notation if you hide the game list.

Engine Actions

Start Analysis

Starts the engine analysis. See Analysis for a detailed explanation.

Play Against Engine

Play the current position against the chess engine.

Blunder Check

See Blunder Checking Games for a detailed description.

Free Analysis (E-Boards only)

See Free Analysis (E-Boards only) for a detailed description.

Stop Engine

Stops any engine activity.

Pause/Continue Engine

Pauses or continues the analysis while maintaining the connection to the engine. To save battery, you can pause the engine when moving through a game and only continue the analysis when needed. The advantage is that the chess engine remains initialized and is faster to analyze new positions.

Threat

Turns Threat Analysis on or off.

Flip Board

Flips the board to show Black at the bottom and White at the top, or vice versa.

Stop Live Games Update

Stops the update of live games in the background. Only available if the PGN file was downloaded from the internet.

Save Game

This action item is the same as the menu item Save Game.

Mode

An additional menu item to switch the mode. See also Changing the Mode.

Display

Opens a submenu with the following entries:

Show Moves

Shows or hides the moves text.

Show Annotations

Shows or hides the game annotations if they are displayed separately from the moves. This menu item is only available if Show Annotations In-line is disabled.

Show Buttons

Shows or hides the Board Actions (Buttons).

Show Material Imbalance

Shows or hides the Material Imbalance Display.

Show Opening Explorer

Shows or hides the Opening Explorer.

Show Engine Output

Shows or hides the Engine Output.

Show Graphical Engine Evaluation

Shows or hides the Graphical Evaluation Display.

Show Coloring Buttons

Shows or hides the Coloring Buttons.

Share

Opens a submenu with options to share the game or position with other apps. See Sharing Chess Games with Other Apps for more information.

Next Game

Opens the next game from the game list. Only available if the Board Actions (Buttons) are not shown.

Previous Game

Opens the previous game from the game list. Only available if the Board Actions (Buttons) are not shown.

Autoplay Start/Stop

Starts or stops the Autoplay. Only available if the Board Actions (Buttons) are not shown.