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!
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The concept
Miniature is a chess board that goes always with you, ready to let you play and learn wherever you go.
- The main use case is playing online against other players at http://freechess.org (FICS)
- Now imagine that you can also chat with the other player.
- Learning is important: watch games live, review stored games and also process offline the lessons offered at FICS.
- Play P2P games against other players next to you or in your Contacts.
- And not only regular chess. See also Antichess, Chess960...
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).
There are some policies that we follow in the project.
News
- 2009-11-11: "(10:52:48 PM) mikhas: well, it's confirmed: Miniature runs on Qt 4.6, on the N900"
- 2009-11-10: Talk thread started: Miniature development: Play chess games online
- 2009-11-09: Miniature - it moves!, first blog post from Michael Hasselmann.
- 2009-11-08: First running example mimicking the "first realistic mockup".
- 2009-11-06: Code repository created: http://gitorious.org/miniature - source code exists since the beginning.
- 2009-11-06: First realistic mockup for playing basic online chess (portrait).
- 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
Features
None for real users yet. Miniature is just few days old and we are defining the features of the first relase.
Check Miniature/Development to follow the latest status and to get involved.
Screenshots
This is how the real application looks like, while being still under very initial and heavy development. Check the mockups in order to see how things should look like in the future.
Miniature on n900.jpg
Current approximation to the Play Game window in portrait mode
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Miniature new next prev.jpg
The non-hildonized menues show that we used an outdated Qt4 package ;)
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Miniature it moves.jpg
Miniature can now display any FEN position description.
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Miniature qt46 n900.png
Miniature in portrait mode, using the latest Qt 4.6 for Maemo package.
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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.