Summary : PocketGrandmaster is the ultimate in chess programs for PPC and Smartphone! v4 now available!
Expert Opinions & Awards: "Awarded 5 Stars" ukwares.com "Definitively A Masterpiece" pocketpc.ch "9/10 - Strong & Highly Customizable" svetpda.cz "Winner Fifth Annual Best Software Awards 2005!" pocket pc magazine "It clearly outperforms all others!" grailmaster
Description : The "WINNER in the "Chess Games" category of the POCKET PC BEST SOFTWARE
AWARDS 2003 and 2005-2008!"
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.
New 4.1 Version for Pocket PC now available!
Full support for WVGA (HTC Touch HD) and square screen devices.
Play online on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) and the server of the Internet Chess Club (ICS) ;
- Play against players from all over the world (works well even without registration on FICS).
- Observe other games played on the server.
- Post seek ads or reply to posted ads.
- Adjourn and continue games.
- Chat with other players
- Directly send commands to the chess-server and display the results.
Support for cut and paste in most windows, you could for example cut and paste a movelist to an email.
Mosts lists (games in a database, observable games, seek-ads) can be sorted by a tap on the colum header now.
The WVGA-layout saves previous PVs by the engine in a listbox.
Various small improvements and bugfixes.
Beginner Features (Pocket PC and Smartphone) :
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
Expert Features (Pocket PC and Smartphone):
Extremely strong chess engine (Amateur World Champion 2001)
Choose between different chess engines
Fully configurable time controls
Multiple levels for both blitz and tournament
Opening book with 200,000 moves
Quick move input (one tap logic, piece dragging)
Pondering (permanent brain)
Information about thinking process (main line, depth, score, nodes)
Supports the DGT electronic chessboard (not Dell Axim)