ChessGenius / free download

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.