Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 13:05:01 11/01/02
Hi,
PocketGrandmaster 2.0, a fully featured and strong shareware-chess program
for Pocket PC is now available at
http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com
Installationfiles are available for PocketPCs with StrongARM/XScale,
MIPS and SH3 processors (e.g. iPAQ, Jornada, Toshiba, Cassiopeia) and
PocketPC 2002/Windows CE 3.0.
Most important improvements:
- more piece sets and squares
- new engine Ruffian by Perola Valfridsson (in addition to Gromit and SOS)
- support for the electronic chessboard by DGT (http://www.dgtprojects.com)
- spoken announcements of moves in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish
(with kind permission from DGT-Projects!)
- training-mode for testsuites
- new "comment move"-dialog
- a context-menu opens when you tap-and-hold below the board
- PocketGrandmaster 2.0 is also available in a German version.
Other features:
- load "next game" and "previous game"
- "back to start" and "forward to end" of game
- send and receive games as mail
- slightly improved chess engine
- "highlight legal moves" shows all legal moves of a piece
- "next move" asks if there is more than one variation
- "coach" warns when you make a really bad move
- many improved details and minor bugfixes
Perola Valfridsson has provided a Pocket PC version of his strong chess engine
Ruffian in record time. Although Ruffian looses a bit more speed on the Pocket
PC than other engines, it is one of the strongest chess programs currently
available for Pocket PCs. More information about the PC-version of Ruffian
can be found here: http://ruffian.hkust.se/
For more information about PocketGrandmaster, please visit
http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com
Have fun testing it,
Frank Schneider, Kai Skibbe
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