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Is this something more than just a GUI for Stockfish and other UCI-capable engines?
If not, then there are several much more appealing options for many operating systems. (But granted, maybe not for Kindle Touch.)
Stockfish is, by the way, the strongest open source engine around at this point. There are very few commercial engines that can compete with it.
On a sidenote, I think that "chess on the computer" is quite done. When pairing an engine such as Stockfish or any of the big commercial ones (Fritz, Rybka, Houdini, Hiarcs) with a powerful computer, I think they'll be able to play at 2750+ ELO level, at least. If you're not within the top 50 in the world, you'll be outmatched. When adding a deep opening book such as the one that comes with the Chessbase GUI's, which holds lines up to 30 moves (!!) for popular openings, and pair it with a 5-piece endgame tablebase, these engines virtually become unbeatable. They only need to "survive" the middle game, to be able to fully coast on the opening and endgame libraries.
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