Author: Nathan Hellmers
Date: 15:29:08 11/07/02
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On November 07, 2002 at 16:42:17, George Sobala wrote: >I see that "ChessMaster for PalmOs" has arrived on http://www.handango.com > >Can't say much about it myself: I downloaded it, loaded the colour version onto >my Clie, observed a mucked up screen (two copies of the board side by side >across the top of the screen), played three moves, and then got told that demo >mode was over -- at which point it reset my handheld. > >Such initial teething problems aside (big sharp canine teeth dripping blood), >from the specifications it does seem quite featureful. I tried it for a little while. Had one freeze up, but it didn't reset the device. Nice features like you say, though there were a couple of small problems on my Handspring Visor deluxe. 1. When a move is made the squares are highlighted. Sometimes the highlights don't go away, particularly for black. 2. When moving a piece, you can do the usual tap on the starting square and then tap on the destination square. But when taking a piece, you have to drag. Otherwise you get a message saying you can't move an opponent's piece when you tap on the destination square. All in all it looked very nice. The usual chessmaster personality approach to opponents is nice and you can create your own and modify them quite a bit. Not sure how long the demo is supposed to let you play. Once it cut me off after maybe 4 moves and another time it stopped at around 15. A couple of times it let me play over 20 moves. Maybe it counts the number of taps or something (I was looking at the menus a lot early on). Nathan
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