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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 is 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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| - | == News ==
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| - | * 2009-11-28: [https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/chess-developer/2009-November/000079.html First bug report]. :)
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| - | * 2009-11-27: Miniature 0.1.2-1 released for [http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-devel_free_armel/miniature/0.1.2-1 Maemo] and [https://launchpad.net/~michael-hasselmann/+archive/miniature/+sourcepub/882639/+listing-archive-extra Ubuntu] with first Chess rules applied.
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| - | * 2009-11-17: [https://launchpad.net/~michael-hasselmann/+archive/miniature/+packages Miniature available for your desktop PC]
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| - | * 2009-11-16: A first & dummy [http://maemo.org/packages/view/miniature/ .deb package of Miniature] is available in Maemo 5 extras-devel.
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| - | * 2009-11-11: "(10:52:48 PM) mikhas: well, it's confirmed: Miniature runs on Qt 4.6, on the N900"
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| - | * 2009-11-10: Talk thread started: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=371747 Miniature development: Play chess games online]
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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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| - | == Features ==
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| - | Miniature is still not ready for end users. It doesn't play offline games and doesn't even know how to go online.
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| - | [http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-devel_free_armel/miniature/0.1.3-1 Miniature 0.1.3-1] is available in Maemo 5 [[Extras-devel]], a repository recommended only to developers. End users will do good staying far from it, but there is a [https://launchpad.net/~michael-hasselmann/+archive/miniature launchpad PPA] with irregularly updated Ubuntu 9.04 packages.
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| - | New features in the last version:
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| - | * Candidate UI to move pieces: one click to select piece, second click to select destination square and click to an external button to confirm the move. Pieces and squares can be changed at will before clicking the confirmation button.
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| - | * Checks are detected now.
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| - | * Backend fixes improving the responsiveness of the moves.
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| - | Features implemented in previous releases:
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| - | * Boot a screen in portrait mode.
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| - | * Display a nice-looking board.
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| - | * Set the pieces in starting position.
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| - | * Enforce basic chess rules except:
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| - | ** Checkmate
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| - | ** Stalemate
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| - | ** Castling
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| - | ** En-passant
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| - | ** Pawn promotion (works in the desktop version)
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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 will look like in v0.1.x-x.
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| - | <gallery widths=200px>
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| - | Image:Miniature-between_the_turns.png |<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Cool little animation to show that pieces turn around between the moves</div>
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| - | Image:Miniature-Down_under.png |<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Situation after white's move: The player with the black pieces also is able to see it's pieces from his/her point of view</div>
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| - | Image:Miniature-20091219-1.png |<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Starting position for human vs human, face to face.</div>
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| - | Image:Screenshot-20091219-2.png |<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Selecting one piece to move.</div>
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| - | Image:Miniature-20091219-3.png |<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Selecting destination square.</div>
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| - | Image:Miniature_rooks_and_knights.jpg|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Miniature learns chess in korius' development branch. Here rooks and knights know how to behave with each other.</div>
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| - | </div>
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| - | </gallery>
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| - | === Mockups ===
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| - | How things should look like in the future. (We are looking for real designers!)
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| - | <gallery widths=200px>
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| - | Image:Miniature-playgame-portrait-start.png|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">First boot.</div>
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| - | </gallery>
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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=34242 Miniature development: Play chess games online].
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| - | * With some luck you will find us online at #miniature in irc.freenode.net.
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| - | == Development ==
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| - | See [[/Development]] for more information on developing Miniature.
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| - | There are some [[/Policies | policies]] that we follow in the project.
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| - | == Contributors ==
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| - | * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/mikhas Michael Hasselmann]: lead developer.
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| - | * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/kore Dennis Stötzel]: chess logics.
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| - | * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/hasselmm Mathias Hasselmann]: veteran programmer.
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| - | * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/qgil Quim Gil]: documentation.
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| - | * [http://maemo.org/profile/view/kittykat Ekaterina Gerasimova]: Game icon.
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| - | Special thanks to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cburnett Colin M.L. Burnett] for his free piece set used by Wikipedia.
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