ChessGenius v2.2.02

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
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

• Free updates
• Incredibly strong play
  Excellent play even on the 'instant' level
• Thirty playing levels
  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
• 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.
• 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 on the small board view. Useful for replaying games to see where mistakes have been made or for playing over an imported PGN Master game
• Rules of Chess
  Understands all the rules of Chess including, en-passant, underpromotion, castling, draw by repetition and the 50 move rule. Announces a draw if there is insufficient material to win
• Save and Load games
  Games can be saved and loaded in PGN files. Multiple games per file. Easy to import and export to PC chess programs
• 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
• Big chessboard option
  Choose between two chessboard sizes
• 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
  A Championship icon is displayed 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
• Hash tables for stronger play
  The size of the hash tables can be adjusted from 64kb up to 16mb

Requirements
ChessGenius for Windows Mobile runs on all Windows Mobile 6.5, 6.1, 6, 5 and 2003SE / 2003 devices.
It runs on touch screen with stylus devices e.g. Windows Mobile 6.x Professional, Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Windows Mobile 5, 2003SE / 2003 for Pocket PC.

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Magmic Games Medieval Kings Chess 2 v1.2

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
Relive feudal history through chess in this age-old strategy game. Experience interesting play themes based on the greatest war time kings, featuring 6 grades of ultra-strategic and challenging Artificial Intelligence and multiplayer options to fight against live players online.

The online experience is what makes Medieval Kings Chess 2 really fun. Join ladder matches or make some regular matches to play up to 16 simultaneous "chess by mail" opponents. Moves are made one at a time but if you find one of your opponents online you can play a live game. Multiplayer Chess gets a lot of action mid-day: Perfect for lunch lines or goofing off at work.

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PocketSaola ChessAx v1.4

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
ChessAx for PocketPC = Ax Engine + GUI for PocketPC + many useful functions.
Ax has been being one of the most frequent update engines.

Features

User Interface:

• Several piece styles.
• Board customization: select colors, sizes, rotate board to get suitable view.
• Two ways to make moves: tap and drag or tap and tap.
• Move list (report).

For beginners and intermediates:

• Move guide: shows all legal points for selected piece, including opening book moves.
• Attacked pieces: shows all pieces which are being attacked by opponent. That function can help low and intermediate players to improve their ratings around 100-150 points.
• Spy computing: Gives a graphic illustration of what computer is planning to play at any given moment. That can help players to improve their ratings about 200-300.
• Chart of scores: that is chart of all computed scores of moves, giving you an overview about your game, where good moves or bad moves are and what key points of game are.
• Select some kinds of limits for computer such as depth or time or both for computing a move. No limit for human side.
• Select time controls. Same limit for both sides.

For experts:

• ChessAx includes all the chess knowledge of the PC version. It is actually the same engine, with the only difference of GUI and that a PocketPC is not as fast as a PC.
• PGN support: You can exchange games and positions with your favorite PC chess programs.
• Set up any position.
• Thinking in human time: Computer may get benefit from human time via that function.
• Learn: ChessAx can learn positions to improve its strength.
• Includes an opening book of 12000 chess positions.
• Analysis on fly: That function is used for analysis for live games. Modern masters usually play in difficult way to understand. That function can help out and increase understanding and enjoyment of their games.
• Find solution: infinite analyze current position to find the best move.

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PDAMill GameBox Boards v2.0

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
GameBox Boards is our collection of Board Games, designed with the most intuitive versions of Chess, Checkers, and Reversi, easy for anyone to be able to pickup and play. While it also maintains a difficulty level that can challenge even the veteran Board Game players out there.

And of course, as a GameBox it strives to be the best looking, best sounding, best overall gaming experience on the market.

Features

Three High Quality Games: Chess, Checkers, and Reversi

- Sleek graphics: High quality graphics that are easy on the eyes even during long gaming sessions
- Hint feature: Great for newcomers to ease into the game, for veterans to sharpen their skills, or for anyone else if they simply feel stuck
- Three Unique Tables: Choose between Three beautiful skins including Classic Marble, Wood, and Glass Tables.
- Ambient Music: Over 15 minutes of high quality, relaxing background music which fits the mood of each game perfectly
- Unlimited Undos and Redos: Unlimited Undo and Redo features gives you a chance to correct any error you make and also view your opponent's strategy
- Auto-save: Games are automatically saved when you exit, so you can continue where you've left off

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PDAMill GameBox Board v1.5

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
GameBox Boards is our fantastic, high quality Board Game Pack including Three Complete Games with selectable difficulty. Superb graphics, high-quality music and sound effects, and fantastic playability make this a excellent addition to your game collection and to the GameBox series.

GameBox Boards is designed with the most intuitive versions of Chess, Checkers, and Reversi, easy for anyone to be able to pickup and play. While it also maintains a difficulty level that can challenge even the veteran Board Game players out there.

And of course, as a GameBox it strives to be the best looking, best sounding, best overall gaming experience on the market

Features

- Three High Quality Games: Chess, Checkers, and Reversi
- Sleek graphics: High quality graphics that are easy on the eyes even during long gaming sessions
- Hint feature: Great for newcomers to ease into the game, for veterans to sharpen their skills, or for anyone else if they simply feel stuck
- Three Unique Tables: Choose between Three beautiful skins including Classic Marble, Wood, and Glass Tables.
- Ambient Music: Over 15 minutes of high quality, relaxing background music which fits the mood of each game perfectly
- Unlimited Undos and Redos: Unlimited Undo and Redo features gives you a chance to correct any error you make and also view your opponent's strategy
- Auto-save: Games are automatically saved when you exit, so you can continue where you've left off

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Orneta Chess Mobile 2008 v3.01

License: Free
Price: Free

Description

Chess Mobile is the classic strategy game of Chess for Windows Mobile based Smartphone and Pocket PC devices. With multiple difficulty levels this game appeals to everyone from the novice chess player to the advanced chess player. The game automatically save the state of the game so that the player can come back to it when they are ready. A game can be played incrementally over as much time as needed, months or even years. It is possible to see a convenient history of past moves.

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Pocket Grand Master Chess v3.0

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
WINNER in the "Chess Games" category of the POCKET PC BEST SOFTWARE AWARDS 2003 , 2005 and now 2007 !

Featuring an extremely strong chess engine with an opening book of 200,000 moves and plays interesting and often aggressive chess. The engine is a successor to the program finishing 4th in the World Microcomputer Chess Championships 2001, winning the title of the 18th World Microcomputer Amateur Chess Champion.

Features
- Easy move input (checks and shows legal moves)
- Coach- and training mode
- "Show threat" lets PocketGrandmaster tell you his plans
- "Hint" lets PocketGrandmaster suggest a good move for you
- analysis mode to browse through your games and find mistakes
- "Easy"-levels
- Help available for all functions and dialogs

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Hexacto Kasparov Chessmate v1.0.9

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
Kasparov Chessmate is powered by an advanced chess engine designed to provide hours of thrilling contests for players of all skill levels. Test your mastery of this classic game and improve play as you advance through three ranges of expertise (novice, intermediate and master) each with four levels of difficulty from Very Easy to Hard. Play as long as you want, save, then resume your game whenever you are ready. Endorsed by Garry Kasparov, Kasparov Chessmate is a chess adventure that turns your Smartphone into a challenging opponent that is ready to do battle anywhere, anytime

Features
· Challenging and realistic computer opponents of all level
· Play in tournament mode with virtual opponents at the Kasparov Chess Club
· Multiplayer game action in "hot-seat" style
· Four game-length modes: Blitz, Rapid, Friendly, No Limit, and Time/Move Limit
· Tracking and review of personal game history
· An easy-to-use interface

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Absolutist Checkers Challenge v1.0

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
All users of Linux now have a new great game - Challenge Checkers! The game is a wonderful training for you logic force and strategy skills. You play with your device or with your partner, getting more and more experience on several skill levels. Enjoy also great graphics and sound - endless pleasure for devoted chess player of any age. A real challenge for all checkers masters!

Features
* two player's mode
* game autosave on exit
* demo mode with advanced AI engine
* various sound and animation effects

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Superscape Chesscapade Battle Chess v1.52

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
Chesscapade™ is a fun, action packed next generation chess game featuring groundbreaking 3D battle animations, real-time multi-player gaming across the network and four different play modes from "AI challenge" to "challenge a friend across the network". All pieces are fully animated and taking an opponent's piece turns into a cinematic experience as you watch your side crush the opposition with piece specific animations.

Groundbreaking 3D graphics:

Witness amazing, piece-specific 3D battle animations
Learn with complete 3D tutorials demonstrating the rules of chess
Rotate, tilt and zoom board dynamically during 3D game
Switch between 2D and 3D modes
Download new boards and sets as they become available
Connect your device to your wired PC to:

Take part in real-time, multi-player chess battles over the network
Improve your ranking (based on ELO rating system) and challenge stronger opponents
Buddy list for frequent opponents
Challenge buddies or let Chesscapade pick a similar strength opponent calculated from your server-based ranking.
Send messages and taunts to your opponent in real-time
Customisable message list for taunts

Feature
- Chess engine developed by Russian experts in chess strategy and AI.
- Full understanding of the rules of chess including: draw by repetition, 50 move rule, en passant, castling, etc
- 4 different play modes: "One Player" (against the computer AI), "Two Players" (sharing the same device) or against other players in "Challenge a friend" and "Network Automatch" modes
- Ten AI skill levels from Novice to Grandmaster
- Six game modes: bullet, blitz, rapid, standard, world champion, unlimited time
- Practice mode where moves can be taken back and sides can be switched
- Highlighted moves (toggle on/off) and board notation during play
- Ability to replay last completed game
- Load/Save games
- Drag or tap select to move pieces
- Chess clocks
- Move history in chess notation.
- On screen material record (pieces taken).

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Astraware Board Games v1.0

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
Astraware Boardgames includes 8 games, each with user-customizable rules and a range of difficulty levels, but designed with casual players and non-experts in mind. If you're a new player or an old hand who just enjoys a fun traditional board game, then Astraware Boardgames is just for you.

Astraware Boardgames includes Chess, Backgammon, Ludo, Checkers, Reversi, Nine Men's Morris, Snakes and Ladders, and Tic Tac Toe.

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Pocket Grand Master Chess v3.0

License: Free
Price: Free

Description

WINNER in the "Chess Games" category of the POCKET PC BEST SOFTWARE AWARDS 2003 , 2005 and now 2007 ! Featuring an extremely strong chess engine with an opening book of 200,000 moves and plays interesting and often aggressive chess. The engine is a successor to the program finishing 4th in the World Microcomputer Chess Championships 2001, winning the title of the 18th World Microcomputer Amateur Chess Champion.

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Pocket Grandmaster chess v2.1

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
PocketGrandmaster boasts a fully configurable board, simple yet far-reaching functions to work with game databases, various levels, a chessclock, an analysis mode for tutoring and problem solving, and even hints to help improve your gameplay!

PocketGrandmaster allows you to select between a variety of preconfigured levels, and also allows the creation of new, user-defined levels, and offers different playing modes for both tournament and blitz games.

PocketGrandmaster features three extremely strong chess engines with an openingbook of 200,000 moves, and plays interesting and often aggressive chess. The engine is a successor to the program finishing 4th in the World Microcomputer Chess Championships 2001, winning the title of the 18th World Microcomputer Amateur Chess Champion.

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Chess Genius v1.9

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
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:

• Powerful, compact and fast.
• Free updates for registered users.
• The board display shows chess clocks, move record and 'thinking' information.
• Hint. ChessGenius can suggest a move for you.
• Set up any chess position.
• Thirty playing levels. 10 'easy', 10 'blitz' and 10 time per move.
• Understands the rules of chess including: draw by repetition, 50 move rule, en passant, castling, under-promotion etc.
• Take-back moves, also step-forward and replay game. The up/down keys or directional pad can be used.
• ChessGenius can play against itself or allow two player chess games.

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