I'm the developer of Chess Openings Wizard for iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows. COW uses Stockfish but I'm wondering if it could also use fishnet analysis.
I don't think so.
When I start fishnet it only connects to github (presumably for updates) and lichess (for games/studies to analyze).
There would be no way for you to access my computer.
But LiChess has cached evaluations of lots of positions, and it makes that information available through its API.
lichess.org/api#tag/AnalysisI don't doubt that there is no way for any app to access your computer.
The analysis of 7 million opening positions is certainly helpful but app users do want analysis of their own positions. For that, the app would need access to engine analysis.
I don't think there's a way to do this at the moment. You can import games via the API and read the evaluation of existing games but I don't think there's a way to request analysis of a game via the API. This also seems a bit questionable since fishnet users are donating their CPU time to Lichess after all and not some random app.
But if you are already using Stockfish, you can always just do your own analysis. Though I guess it won't be as fast or deep as server analysis on a phone.
If you get the source code, hack it up somewhat, you can do whatever you want with it.
It's all open source ...
It's not a question of using the open source.
The COW app is used by many lichess fans and COW already has integrations that grab a player's recent games from lichess and fold them into the repertoires.
What the lichess users are requesting is a way to have the COW mobile apps use server based analysis like that provided by lichess. I'm up for running a separate analysis server but I'd rather support/use lichess somehow.
