Version 2.0 

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

• Download for desktop install. EXE file
  Click here to download now ChessGenius_WM_signed.exe. Version 2.003. 152 KB.
  Download to desktop PC. Make sure that you have Microsoft ActiveSync or Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center (for Windows Vista) installed on your desktop computer. Connect your device to desktop computer and run the exe file on desktop computer to install.
  

• Download for device install. CAB file
  Click here to download now ChessGenius_WM_signed.CAB. Version 2.003. 282 KB.
  Either download direct to mobile device or download to desktop and transfer to mobile device. To install run  the CAB file on your device.
   

 
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Landscape view.

Tested and certified "Windows Mobile Ready"

Awards:

rated by Tucows

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."

• 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.
• 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 on the small board view. 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
  A Championship icon is displayed 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

• Runs on all Windows Mobile devices  - with and without touchscreen.  (Previously non touchscreen devices required "ChessGenius for Windows powered smartphones" which had fewer features)
• 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.
• Optional toolbar on touchscreen devices. 

• 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

• 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

• 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"

• 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

• 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