ChessGenius
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- 1.6
- April 19, 2005
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Description
ChessGenius is a world championship winning chess program for the Palm,
PocketPC, Symbian Platforms. Superb playing strength and packed with features
for beginners and experts.

Features of ChessGenius
- Free updates
- Incredibly strong play
Excellent play even on the `instant` level - Thirty playing levels
Ten easy levels. ChessGenius makes deliberate mistakes
Ten time based levels. Instant, 1 sec, 2 sec, 3 sec, 5 sec, ... 3 mins
Ten Blitz levels. Whole game in 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 5 min, .... 120 min. The Chess Clocks count down in these levels. You lose if you run out of time - Game information
The last moves of the game
Chess Clocks. Total White and Black time and move time
Main line. For example, the line may show:
"1.03 05 cxd4 Nxd4 Nc6 Bb5" This means that:
ChessGenius is winning by 1.03 pawns. Search depth = 5, and line of moves. ChessGenius is planning cxd4 and expects Nxd4 in reply etc - Set-up position
Any legal position can be entered - Take back and Step forward
Take back moves to start of game and Step forward to end of game. Easy take back and step forward with the up/down keys or directional pad. - Hint
Let ChessGenius suggest your move - Players
Play against ChessGenius, against another player or watch ChessGenius play itself - Analyze game
Like 2 player mode but ChessGenius calculates continuously and shows its thinking. Useful for replaying games to see where mistakes have been made or for playing over an imported PGN Master game. - Rules of Chess
Understands all the rules of Chess including, en-passant, underpromotion, castling, draw by repetition and the 50 move rule. Announces a draw if there is insufficient material to win - Save and Load games
Games can be saved and loaded in PGN files. Multiple games per file. Easy to import and export to PC chess programs. - Permanent brain option
ChessGenius assumes that the human player will play the hint move and calculates its reply whilst waiting. It will play stronger. - Tutor option
ChessGenius will warn if a blunder / weak move is played and give the option of take back. - Big chessboard option
Choose between two chessboard sizes - Show legal moves option
If this option is enabled tapping a piece will show all the squares the piece can move to. If the piece has no moves all pieces that can move are indicated. - Championship
The word `Championship` is displayed on the small board view if you have not used Hint, Taken back moves or viewed the Main line. Can you beat ChessGenius without help? - Board coordinates option
Coordinates can optionally be displayed on the chessboard. - Hash tables for stronger play
The size of the hash tables can be adjusted from 64kb up to 16mb.
