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2011-02-14
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#12
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Originally Posted by magnuslu
Probably in Palm apps, certainly not as a maemo program.
A bit off topic. Is there anything available to play Contract Bridge, the card game? As a beginner, some kind of learning mode would be appreciated.
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2011-02-14
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#13
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There's a chess game called Miniature in the repos. It's by far more advanced than the preinstalled one in terms of features, if I recall correctly. Not sure how much you can do of the training hints as you're looking for, though. Actually, I'm not sure if it's made it out of devel yet, but of the top of my head I'm pretty sure I remember seeing more than one chess game in the repos, with testing and devel enabled... *Shrug*
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2011-02-14
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#14
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I don't know how good it is but you could try this http://www.astraware.com/webos/board...link=108/rel/3
It's a set of games (including chess) for WebOS, it might work with Pre-Env on the N900
It's a set of games (including chess) for WebOS, it might work with Pre-Env on the N900
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2011-02-14
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur
Miniature, which was heavily promoted by Qgil for some time, never made it out of Extras-devel and development seems to me to be inactive. It does not appear to have a computer play mode at all -- it only allows one player to play another. It is very pretty and seems to me to have very few useful features, certainly not a training mode.
There's a chess game called Miniature in the repos. It's by far more advanced than the preinstalled one in terms of features, if I recall correctly. Not sure how much you can do of the training hints as you're looking for, though. Actually, I'm not sure if it's made it out of devel yet, but of the top of my head I'm pretty sure I remember seeing more than one chess game in the repos, with testing and devel enabled... *Shrug*
As for other actual chess games in any meaningful sense, I didn't find any in my check of five minutes ago. There is a chess clock. There is something called shakki which doesn't appear to be in usable shape. There's a game described as something like "turn over all the chess pieces and win the game", which doesn't sound like chess to me.
That's it. If anyone can find other chess games in the repositories, I'd be interested to know.
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2011-02-15
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Mr Accountant, please let us know if you succeed.
In the meantime, about a year ago I started a thread with some chess flash games but there was not much interest, I had almost forgotten about it but have updated it today with a new download link and a couple of new games.
Don't get too excited ;-) it's not an ideal solution but they all work well for me to quench my chess thirst.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...717#post578717
Edit... Incidentally, the chess game I use most now though is Chessmaster on the SNES emulator...looks and plays well in 2D mode.
Last edited by Dancairo; 2011-02-15 at 09:50.
In the meantime, about a year ago I started a thread with some chess flash games but there was not much interest, I had almost forgotten about it but have updated it today with a new download link and a couple of new games.
Don't get too excited ;-) it's not an ideal solution but they all work well for me to quench my chess thirst.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...717#post578717
Edit... Incidentally, the chess game I use most now though is Chessmaster on the SNES emulator...looks and plays well in 2D mode.
Last edited by Dancairo; 2011-02-15 at 09:50.
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2011-02-16
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Originally Posted by geneven
Thanks Geneven, I didn't know about that Hiarcs - just installed it and trying it out..Seems pretty good so far
I recently installed Hiarcs in the Garnet VM and it's pretty good -- its claim to fame is that it has a very natural style, not so computerlike. It cost about $40. I don't think it has a 'trainer' though.
I think a program like Chessmaster has a version for the Palm. It might be your best bet for a trainer. I'll look for more details and post here.
An excellent program called Scid probably has a trainer. You'd probabably have to install it via Easy Debian.
My Maemo Apps:
QTeachMe - Flashcard app
MobiTifo (which was formerly known as QSportsEvent) - Sports leagues tracking (mainly football).