ChessGenius logo Powerful, compact and fast
for the Pocket PC     Written by Richard Lang
 
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ChessGenius has superb playing strength and is packed with features for beginners and experts. It runs on all Windows Mobile devices with a touch screen (Pocket PC's) including Windows Mobile 6, 5 and 2003SE / 2003 devices. Chess Genius supports Landscape mode, Square, VGA and WVGA devices. Written by Richard Lang, ten times Computer Chess World Champion.

Version 2.0 This is a free update for all registered users. Install over the previous version. No need to enter License Key again.
 

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Try before you buy! Download ChessGenius 2.0 and try it out for free. See the FAQ page for installation instructions and for .cab file and a version for old (pre WM 2003) devices.

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Landscape view.


Tested and certified "Windows Mobile Ready"

 

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Comments by users:


"This chess program "will beat the pants off of you". Very strong yet user friendly for the weaker players too, the Genius is a clear Winner!!"

"l´adversaire peut prévoir plusieurs coups en avance et développer un jeu que le joueur naïf ne pourra difficilement renverser" [more]

"I have played the original ChessGenius 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, for the PC, So when my wife surprised me with a pocket pc, I was tickled to find out that chessgenius was available for it. Very strong and aggressive program. Excellent, very enjoyable graphics! Well done, programmer/ Keep up the good work! Highly Recommended!!!"

"Excellent. This is the best chess game I've seen for the iPAQ. A really good example of how to get a ship into a bottle!. I like the tutor."

Features of ChessGenius for the Pocket PC
  • 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.
New features of ChessGenius version 2.0
  • Support for all screen sizes. Landscape, Square, QVGA, VGA and WVGA displays. (Support for 320x320  and WVGA is new)
  • ChessGenius now offers two chess board sizes for every screen size. (Previous version did not support big chess board on landscape displays)
  • Make moves using stylus or 5 way pad. (No need to use stylus)
  • Support for screen rotation
  • Improved piece animation.
  • Improved database with load next game function.
  • Toolbar is now optional. (to comply with WM6 requirements)

 

New features of ChessGenius version 1.9
  • Full support for WM6 and WM5 square screen devices.
    A new small board view for square screen devices such as Palm Treo 700w and HP hw6500, hw6515, hw6900 and Pocket LOOX T830.  

 

New features of ChessGenius version 1.8
  • Opening Name now displayed
    for example. Book  B12 Caro-Kann defence
    Opening book is more that 100% bigger. It is deeper and has more variety. 
  • Improved Database.
    Replace game. You can load a game, modify it and replace it. Good for keeping track of postal games.
    Database now remembers the last game loaded. Much easier to load the next game.
  • Improved graphics.
    New piece set.

 

New features of ChessGenius version 1.7 (May 2005)
  • Full support for Windows Mobile 6, 5 and 2003 SE devices.
    Supports Landscape mode.
    Supports VGA screens.
    No warning message on installation.
  • Show last move option.
    ChessGenius can indicate the last move.
  • Improved pgn support
    ChessGenius is now associated with pgn files. Selecting a pgn file from "File explorer" opens ChessGenius.
  • Tested and certified "Windows Mobile Ready"

 

New features of ChessGenius version 1.6 ( August 2004 )
  • Stunning new piece set
    Three different piece sets including new Royal piece set designed by Bryan Whitby
  • Next best feature
    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..

 

New features of ChessGenius version 1.5 ( October 2003 )
  • Stronger play
    The Chess engine has been optimized for the Intel XScale processor using tools provided by Intel and now runs between 25% and 60% faster. ChessGenius can now sometimes search more than 100,000 positions per second.
  • Additional piece set
    Choice of piece sets. (Thanks to Bryan Whitby)
  • Additional main line options
    Main line can display positions searched and positions searched per second or score only.
  • Bigger user adjustable hash tables
    For stronger play the size of the hash tables can be adjusted from 64kb up to 16mb.

 


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