A World Champion, award winning chess program. Hi-Res and full screen display for 320x480 devices. Packed with features for beginners and experts. Superb playing strength. ARM native chess code option is up to 20 times faster, 400 ELO stronger. The authors chess programs have won ten world championships.

Features

* Free updates

Buy ChessGenius once and all future updates will be free.

* Incredibly strong play

Excellent play even on the 'instant' level

* Forty playing levels (standard engine)

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

Ten Problem solving levels. Solve newspaper checkmate in x moves problems

* Thirty additional playing levels (ARM engine)

OS5 Palm devices support the ARM native engine. This has 30 playing levels. Ten Easy, ten time based levels and ten Blitz levels.

* 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 5-way Navigator/ Jog dial / scroll up/down buttons

* 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.

* Infrared play option

Play against another player who has ChessGenius installed on a Palm device using the infrared port

* Rules of Chess

Understands all the rules of Chess including, en-passant, under promotion, castling, draw by repetition and the 50 move rule.

* Save and Load games

Games can be saved and loaded as (PGN compatible) memo's. Games can be transferred between Palm and Desktop PC. For details see the FAQ page

* 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.

* Three board views

Choose between three chessboard sizes

* High-Resolution Support

ChessGenius supports high resolution on Sony Clie's and on all Palm OS5 devices. It also supports the Handera 330

* 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.

Updated Description:

v2.3

* Opening Name displayed.

For example. Book B12 Caro-Kann defence. Requires OS5 and above

* Bluetooth play.

You can play against another player who has ChessGenius installed on a Bluetooth enabled Palm device

* Next best move option.

After ChessGenius has played a move "Next best" will force ChessGenius to take back its last move and compute the next best move. This is useful for forcing ChessGenius to play a particular opening and for analyzing positions..

* Improved graphics.

New piece set

v2.2

* New full screen display for all 320x480 models from Palm, Sony and Tapwave in landscape and portrait mode.

Play on a big chessboard and see full game information!

* Buttons for commonly used game functions.

* Show last move option.

Display of the last move made can now be disabled

* Now easier to play a game with the black pieces.

v2.0

* ARM native chess engine

OS5 devices can optionally use the new engine which supports hash tables. On a Palm Tungsten T3 with 400Mhz Intel XScale processor it runs 20 times faster than previous versions. It is around 400 ELO stronger. The original world champion engine is also included for full compatibility with older Palm devices.

Note: OS5 or higher is required to run the ARM engine.)

* Ability to switch between engines. (OS5 only)

* Auto-off time can be adjusted.

* Setup position allows castling rights to be set.

* Option to view position count and positions searched per second