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Subject: PocketGrandmaster 2.0 released, Ruffian for Pocket PC - Thanks!

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 15:03:22 11/01/02

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On November 01, 2002 at 16:05:01, Frank Schneider wrote:

>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

Frank and Kai,

Thank you  -- it made getting the full version 6 months ago worth it.

Mike



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