ChessGenius for Palm OS is a world championship winning chess program for the Palm Computing Platform. Superb playing strength and packed with features for beginners and experts. It runs on all Palm devices including all LifeDrive, TX, Z22, Tungsten, Zire, Treo, Tapwave and Sony Clie devices.
· Free updates
· Buy ChessGenius once and all future updates will be free.
· Incredibly strong play
· Excellent play even on the 'instant' level
· Forty playing levels (standard engine)
· Ten easy levels. ChessGenius makes deliberate mistakes
· Ten time based levels. Instant, 1 sec, 2 sec, 3 sec, 5 sec, ... 3 mins
· Ten Blitz levels. Whole game in 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 5 min, .... 120 min. The Chess Clocks count down in these levels. You lose if you run out of time
· Ten Problem solving levels. Solve newspaper checkmate in x moves problems
· Thirty additional playing levels (ARM engine)
· OS5 Palm devices support the ARM native engine. This has 30 playing levels. Ten Easy, ten time based levels and ten Blitz levels.
· Game information
· The last moves of the game
· Chess Clocks. Total White and Black time and move time Main line. For example, the line may show: "1.03 05 cxd4 Nxd4 Nc6 Bb5" This means that:
· ChessGenius is winning by 1.03 pawns. Search depth = 5, and line of moves. ChessGenius is planning cxd4 and expects Nxd4 in reply etc
· Set-up position
· Any legal position can be entered
· Take back and Step forward
· Take back moves to start of game and Step forward to end of game. Easy take back and step forward with the 5-way Navigator/ Jog dial / scroll up/down buttons
· Hint
· Let ChessGenius suggest your move
· Players
· Play against ChessGenius, against another player or watch ChessGenius play itself
· Analyze game
· Like 2 player mode but ChessGenius calculates continuously and shows its thinking. Useful for replaying games to see where mistakes have been made or for playing over an imported PGN Master game.
· Infrared play option
· Play against another player who has ChessGenius installed on a Palm device using the infrared port
· Rules of Chess
· Understands all the rules of Chess including, en-passant, under promotion, castling, draw by repetition and the 50 move rule.
· Save and Load games
· Games can be saved and loaded as (PGN compatible) memo's. Games can be transferred between Palm and Desktop PC. For details see the FAQ page
· Permanent brain option
· ChessGenius assumes that the human player will play the hint move and calculates its reply whilst waiting. It will play stronger.
· Tutor option
· ChessGenius will warn if a blunder / weak move is played and give the option of take back.
· Three board views
· Choose between three chessboard sizes
· High-Resolution Support
· ChessGenius supports high resolution on Sony Clie's and on all Palm OS5 devices. It also supports the Handera 330
· Show legal moves option
· If this option is enabled tapping a piece will show all the squares the piece can move to. If the piece has no moves all pieces that can move are indicated.
· Championship
· The word 'Championship' is displayed on the small board view if you have not used Hint, Taken back moves or viewed the Main line. Can you beat ChessGenius without help?
· Board coordinates option
· Coordinates can optionally be displayed on the chessboard.
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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