Miniature

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!

Contents

The concept

More or less:

  • The main use case is playing online against other players at freechess.org
  • Now imagine that you can also chat with the other player.
  • Playing against the computer is a given (chat is optional)
  • Learning is important and it would be great to watch games, review stored games and also process offline the lessons given at certain times in freechess.org
  • A variant would be to play against othe player with a compatible device via local network or bluetooth.
  • I guess if we got at this point then implement variants such as suicide chess, random house, etc is peanuts.

Basing this on Qt 4.6 would be useful to assure the Fremantle - Harmattan path, be fully compliant with whatever the Ovi store brings and have ports for Symbian, Windows Mobile and desktop OSs (Linux, Windows, Mac).

Project status

Kicking off. Nothing exists. Just a Talk thread, a Garage project and this wiki page.

Use cases

Draft. Sorted by priority.

  1. Play games at http://www.freechess.org/
  2. Display games by you or others, live or stored.
  3. Learn chess lessons with moves + text.
  4. Chat with your opponent.
  5. Play with other opponents P2P e.g. via Bluetooth.
  6. Play against computer.
  7. Chess variants (suicide, randomhouse...)

References

  • EBoard and Crafty for the N810/N800/N770 - OS2007 Downloads page.
  • Knights aims to be the ultimate chess resource on your computer. Written for the K Desktop Environment.
  • pacaq is a chess game visualizing and analysis tool done with the Maemo 4.1 Qt4 port - Talk thread.
  • Xboard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms.
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