I think geneven is saying that the display isn't big enough to be able to play chess quickly. At least for geneven.
When you'all get your chess game see up, I'll spot anyone here 10 seconds in a 1-min game or 1 min in a 3-min game if you'll promise to play me on the N900. I'm confident I'll come out way ahead.
Even without such a test, I'd love to see a video of someone playing speed chess on any tablet or phone.
But then, I've tried playing on FICS with my tablet. What has been the experience of any of you who might disagree with me? My bet is that no one else in this thread has ever tried speed chess on a tablet.
My USCF rating was something like 2178 when I was active...That was before I started working for Garry Kasparov.
I used to play competitive chess as a teenager. But we never gotten higer than state level. And I suck at speed chess. So I guess I am not playing against geneven.
I just went through the ICS protocol description. Or what I could find of it.
(That is the protocol used by FICS)
Wow, that is from the middle ages of the internet... It is wordy and seems redundant in some places. It is basicly an interactive telnet session with pretty much plain English as commands and resonses.
The first challenge will be to write or adept an interface for that.
I am also looking at the XBoard client. http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
It is written in C and the ICS parsing might be reusable.
Also the project seems to be still very active.
