Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

What does Miniature mean? Eboard means something. Xboard means something. Scid means something. Blitzin means something. I don't get Miniature.

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

Yeah, I don't get it either but didn't want to come across as sounding offensive. :(

I wouldn't even mind going with something really simple like "Chess Cutie", a play off of the Qt language it will be written in.

Oh well, it's his call. :)

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

To me "miniature" is a variation of "Problemschach" (sorry, I don't know a good translation for this), that is, "Problemschach" with only few figures.

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

If we use PGN as our generic adapter, we should be able to interface with whatever engine we want. Scid is certainly great as a engine, but looking at the code I wouldn't want to port it (it uses TCL for the UI) :)

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

Yes, I agree with that; we call them 'studies'; also, in chess we refer to miniatures, as in very short games.

But I still don't see how it refers to this program.

I don't care that much, either; I think it will be considered a weird, not so good of a name, but it's the program that counts more than the name.

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

Yes, a miniature is a short chess games generally below 20 moves when a master makes a mistake falling into the trap prepared by another master. The original latin word means "something small". It's a reference to the pocketable format of this chess game.

see http://www.superajedrez.com/escuela/celadas/index.htm It's in Spanish but maybe you know an English squivalent. At least by the names and notations you should be able to see what are we talking about.

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

Just a quick status update: Using the QGraphicsScene framework I tried to recreate the latest mock-up. Sadly, I could not trigger the portrait mode yet. The currently available Qt4 packages for Maemo don't seem to have support for it, but I've seen relevant changes in the gitorious repos (perhaps we could get more regular releases please?). So yeah, the screenshot might not be too impressive, but it's a start.

http://taschenorakel.de/pictures/scr...re_on_n900.jpg

The figures are actually QGraphicsItems, so fingertouch should be possible soon. Also, the board already understands FEN to draw itself.

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

Let's see, "a game tactically decided in twenty moves or less". Yep, more or less exactly what I just said. It's good to have the Spanish reference, though. I think this is a site I checked daily when I had a site called ChessWatch for a number of years!

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

mikhas, this is excellent! So are you saying that this is based on the Qt 4.5 community port and can be run in the SDK?

Re: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
 

Yes, Miniature is using Qt. To be precise:
For the device you also have to install it from the terminal (the version number there is 4.5.3~git20090, further instructions are here).

Also, the graphics look wierd in scratchbox/Xephyr, therefore I took the screenshot above directly from the device (SDK != N900 :)).

EDIT: If anyone can point me to a working example for activating portrait mode in Qt (I don't mind if I have to use the latest git version for now) I'd be very thankful.