ChessGenius, award winning chess program. Packed with features for beginners and experts: 30 playing levels including easy and blitz - Chess clocks - Move record - Display of thinking - Save/load game. Superb playing strength. The authors chess programs have won ten world championships.

Features include:

• Powerful, compact and fast
• Simple, elegant user interface
• Free updates for registered users
• Customisable display. Piece sets, colors, board size etc.
• The board display shows chess clocks, move record, opening and 'thinking' information
• Hint. ChessGenius can suggest a move for you
• Tutor Option. ChessGenius will warn if a blunder or weak move is played and give the option of takeback
• Set up any chess position
• Thirty three playing levels. 13 'easy', 10 'blitz' and 10 time per move
• Take-back moves, also step-forward and replay game
• ChessGenius can play against itself or allow two player chess games
• Analyze game. Like two player but ChessGenius calculates continuously and shows its thinking
• Save and Load games. Chess games are saved in PGN format. Multiple games per file. Easy import and export to PC programs
• Permanent brain option for even stronger chess play
• Big chess board option. Choose between two chess board sizes
• Show legal moves and display chess board coordinate options
• Understands the rules of chess including: draw by repetition, 50 move rule, en passant, castling, under-promotion etc.

New features in version 2.2 include:

• Improved graphics. Text background can be dark. Board squares can be shaded or patterned
• Better optimized for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices
• 3 extra easy levels. Next best now works in easy levels

New features in version 2.1 include:

• Improved graphics and new piece sets. 5 piece sets in two sizes
• Optimized for Windows Mobile 6.1 devices with better support for all the new screen resolutions

New features in version 2.0 include:

• Support for all screen sizes. (Support for 320x320 and WVGA is new)
• Make moves using stylus, finger or 5 way pad
• Improved piece animation
• Improved database with load next game function
• Toolbar is now optional. (to comply with WM6 requirements)

New features in version 1.8 include:

• Display of opening name. For example, "B12 Caro-Kann defence"
• Opening book more that 100% bigger
• Improved Database with "Replace game" option
• Improved graphics with extra piece set

New features in version 1.6 include:

• Improved graphics with extra piece set
• Next best command

New features in version 1.5 include:

• Stronger play. The chess engine has been optimized for the Intel XScale processor and now runs between 25% and 60% faster. ChessGenius can now sometimes search more than 100,000 positions per second.
• Choice of chess piece sets
• Main line can display positions searched and positions searched per second or score only
• Hash tables up to 16mb