Miniature

Miniature - Play chess everywhere you go!
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An opening in 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

At the moment we target MeeGo Harmattan running on the Nokia N9 and N950.

Feedback, features and ports to other platforms & devices are welcome!

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Miniature is not ready for end users BUT we have releases for early adopters willing to contribute feedback, fixes or new features.

MeeGo Harmattan

Miniature 0.3 Berlin Defence for MeeGo Harmattan - runs on Nokia N950, N9 and SDK emulators

Maemo

The first version of Miniature to play games offline & P2P on the Nokia N900 can be found in the Extras-devel repository. Not maintained anymore.

Features

Look also the /Wishlist to see what is coming (if someone does the homework).  ;)

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.
  • Play a game against another FICS user (under development).
  • Chat with the opponent while playing.
  • Timeseal support (under development).

Screenshots

These are real screenshots taken from Miniature running on a Nokia N9. Click the images for more details.

Contact us

We love feedback!

Get involved

See the /Development section to know more about the project status and areas welcoming help.

We welcome testers and contributors!

Miniature is a Qt application with a C/C++ backend and a QML UI. The architecture is modular, thinking on the addition of different servers and types of interaction. If you are thinking on bringing new features let us convince you.  :)

We are targeting our development on MeeGo Harmattan and the Nokia N9 but we welcome maintainers for other ports e.g. MeeGo upstream, Symbian, Android-Necessitas, Qt powered desktops...

History

Yes, we do have some history at this point. It all started here:

Check the archive if you want to know more.