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For the third time in a row PocketGrandmaster won Pocket PC
magazine's Best
Software Awards.
It was the fourth victory since 2003.
PocketGrandmaster
is a fully featured and extremely strong chess playing program for
Pocket PCs running Pocket PC 2002/Windows CE.
You will find great features for every skill level, including:
- Toolbar and context-menu for quick access to the most used functions.
- Two different, flippable board layouts with six chess sets and eight chessboards.
- Move animation, realistic sound effects spoken announcements of moves.
- Unlimited take back and move forward in current game
- Save, load, append, replace and delete games from pgn-databases.
- Search for games in databases with adjustable filter send/receive games as mail auto-saving of current game
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For Beginners:
- Easy move input (checks and shows legal moves)
- Coach and training mode
- "Show threat" lets PocketGrandmaster tell you his plans
- "Hint" lets PocketGrandmaster suggest a good move for you
- Analysis mode to browse through your games and find mistakes
- "Easy" levels
- Help available for all functions and dialogs
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For Experts:
- Extremely strong chess engine (Amateur World Champion 2001)
- The multi engine feature lets you choose between different chess engines
- Fully configurable time controls
- multiple levels for both blitz and tournament modes
- Opening book with 200,000 moves
- Quick move input (one tap logic, piece dragging)
- Pondering (permanent brain)
- Information about thinking process (main line, depth, score, nodes)
- Adjustable hashtable size, clear hashtable command
- Supports the DGT electronic chessboard
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PocketGrandmaster is developed for Pocket PCs using the operating system Pocket PC 2002 or Windows CE 3.0, 990KB is required for the program files (executable, opening book and sounds). 2MB memory space is needed when running (increasing or decreasing the hashtable size can change this figure).
Now compatible to Windows Mobile 2003!!
Supported
are Pocket PCs with StrongARM or XScale processors, like the Compaq
iPaq 36XX 37XX 38XX, HP Jornada 565/567/568, Casio E-200 and Toshiba
e570, but PocketGrandmasteris also known to run on most MIPS |