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Hello all.

I am starting to get back into chess and am about to buy a Saitek CM2010 travel chess set.

But since the N900 has a good CPU so was wondering if anyone knows of a decent chess program that has the features of the Saitek. I.e. Chess trainer with hints. Max elo of 2000 so will be able to hopefully take me there!

As a side note, I would be more then happy to pay for it.

As a last resort, I was going to maybe attempt to compile a linux chess program if possible.

Since I alwys have the N900 with me, it'll save me from having to carry the chess set around!

Thanks.

Did your N900 not come with the pre intalled chess program? (might be a regional thing I don't know)

No matter what difficulty, that chess game is IMPOSSIBLE!

The pre-installed program does not have chess trainer etc.

I don't think there's any other chess client than the pre-installed one

Hi.

I do have the pre-installed one but it is tough! i played chess on the Blaclberry 9700 and it won with ease!

I did google chess for the N900 and couldnt find anything...so the next thing to try is if someone has successfuly compiled a desktop chess software on the N900?? Anyone pulled it off and now have a complete chess software on the N900 which runs at a usable speed?

Thanks.

Yeah, you do have a point there. It is a pain in the backside.

Not sure if this could be a possible candidate for a port... http://palmopenchess.sourceforge.net/ It's a chess training program for PalmOS and is designed for Arm devices. The C&C+ code is also freely available too

Thanks for the link. Something like that would be perfect!

I see if someone else has already compiled it for another platform...

Cheers!

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.

I suck at chess but my experience on the n900 was made worse by the fact that I could hardly tell the pieces apart. I actually never even considered when buying the n900 what I would not play chess on it, but that is how it turned out.

Openchess is free is available on the Garnet VM and has a trainer which I haven't used.

You should probably start with it, I think.

Note: These Palm chess games are easy to install and most have demo versions, I found. No reason to restrict yourself to one

Here is a review of many Palm chess games:

http://claritaslux.com/blog/palm-che...ng-chess-palm/

Note: The Chessmaster one is apparently no longer available.

Edit:

Oops, the link above is a good review of Openchess. The reviw of many Palm chess games is here:

http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/ches...essreview.html