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| - | You love chess. You love Maemo and its devices. You believe they fit so well... yet you haven't found a convincing implementation of a chess game for Maemo. '''Miniature''' to the rescue!
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| - | == The concept ==
| + | '''We are moving to http://miniature-chess.org/''' |
| - | Miniature is a chess board that goes always with you, ready to let you play and learn wherever you go.
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| - | * The main use case is playing online against other players at http://freechess.org (FICS)
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| - | * Now imagine that you can also chat with the other player.
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| - | * Learning is important: watch games live, review stored games and also process offline the lessons offered at FICS.
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| - | * Play P2P games against other players next to you or in your Contacts.
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| - | * And not only regular chess. See also Antichess, Chess960...
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| - | Miniature is based on Qt, targets Maemo as primary platform and plans to have ports for Symbian, Windows Mobile and desktop OSs (Linux, Windows, Mac).
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| - | == Features ==
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| - | None for real users yet. Miniature is just few days old and we are defining the features of the first relase.
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| - | Check [[Miniature/Development]] to follow the latest status and to get involved.
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| - | == Screenshots ==
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| - | This is how the real application looks like, while being still under very initial and heavy development. Check the [[Miniature/Development#Mockups|mockups]] in order to see how things should look like in the future.
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| - | <gallery widths=200px>
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| - | Image:Miniature_on_n900.jpg|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Current approximation to the [[:Image:Miniature-playgame-portrait.png|Play Game window in portrait mode]]</div>
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| - | Image:Miniature_new_next_prev.jpg|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">The non-hildonized menues show that we used an outdated Qt4 package ;)</div>
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| - | Image:Miniature_it_moves.jpg|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Miniature can now display any FEN position description.</div>
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| - | </gallery>
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| - | == News ==
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| - | * 2009-11-09: [http://taschenorakel.de/michael/2009/11/09/miniature-it-moves/ Miniature - it moves!], first blog post from Michael Hasselmann.
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| - | * 2009-11-08: [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=368538&postcount=117 First running example] mimicking the "first realistic mockup".
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| - | * 2009-11-06: Code repository created: http://gitorious.org/miniature - source code exists since the beginning.
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| - | * 2009-11-06: [http://wiki.maemo.org/images/2/26/Miniature-playgame-portrait.png First realistic mockup for playing basic online chess] (portrait).
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| - | * 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33764 Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo]
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| - | == Contact us ==
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| - | Questions, feedback and contributions are welcome!
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| - | * Talk discussion thread: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33764 Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo].
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| - | * With some luck you will find us online at #miniature in irc.freenode.net.
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| - | * The developer discussion happens in the project [https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/chess-developer/ mailing list].
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