Miniature
You love chess. You love mobile devices. You believe they fit so well... yet you haven't found a convincing implementation of a free chess game. Miniature to the rescue!
Miniature is a chess board that is always with you, ready to let you play and learn wherever you go.
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Features
Miniature is not ready for end users BUT we have releases for early adopters willing to contribute feedback, fixes or new features.
Play online - FICS (under development)
- Login to FICS as registered user or guest.
- See offers to play a game.
- Filter offers by type of game, time, increment and type of rating (under development).
- Create a new offer to play a game (under development).
- Play a game against another FICS user (under development).
- Chat with the opponent while playing (under development).
Screenshots
These are real screenshots taken from Miniature running on a Nokia N9. Click the images for more details.
Playing... (still not for real)
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 Login to FICS
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 List of games available
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 A game is selected
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 Filtering search by type of chess
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 Filtering search by time
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 Filtering search by type of rating
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 Initial position
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 Selecting a piece
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 Aiming to a destination square
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 Move completed
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 Chat area expanded
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 Typing in chat area
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 Leaving a game
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 Example of confirmation dialog
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Contact us
Questions, feedback and contributions are welcome!
- Talk discussion thread: Miniature development: Play chess games online.
- With some luck you will find us online at #miniature in irc.freenode.net.
Development
See /Development for more information on developing Miniature.
There are some policies that we follow in the project. Check Miniature/Development to follow the latest status and to get involved.
Miniature is based on Qt and targets MeeGo Harmattan as primary platform. Repackaging and ports to other Qt platforms are welcome.
Contributors
- Michael Hasselmann: lead developer.
- Dennis Stötzel: chess logics.
- Mathias Hasselmann: veteran programmer.
- Dariusz Mikulski: P2P telepathy integration.
- Quim Gil: documentation.
- Ekaterina Gerasimova: Game icon.
Special thanks to Colin M.L. Burnett for his free piece set used by Wikipedia.
Users
Do you want to test Miniature and it's cool possibility to play against other people over the air? Or do you want to make simply a match versus someone who is part of the community?
-> A list of users should help you to get an Opponent.
History
Yes, we do have some history at this point. It all started here:
- 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
Check the archive if you want to know more.