Flash Chess & Garnet VM (Palm) Chess
 

Hi all...

I'm a very keen chess player but just don't like the built in chess app, the pieces are ugly and there aren't enough options...so I've been looking around for alternatives, flash being the obvious until somebody more familiar with developing than me comes up with a better alternative.

I've been following the 'Miniature' thread and look forward to when it's ready, thanks to qgil and others there for all your hard work.

So, this is what I have so far.....

FlashchessIII - A good looking game with the ability to save current state of play, and choose white or black.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2769/...caf011f487.jpg
as it plays in the browser you can zoom in.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/...41777bab28.jpg

FlashChessI - A simple flash chess game...good for beginners.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/...5c757c860a.jpg

Sillybullchess - Another simple game, just a different display.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/...fe0fb2c411.jpg

Flash Chesser - Just a board and pieces that you move, great for analysing games....
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/...1ec94e2cf5.jpg

Mate Master - A good chess puzzle game, includes many 'mate in' puzzles of increasing difficulty (maybe able to add more puzzles, i'll look into it when i've done them all).
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2785/...bb32f8481b.jpg

And finally, as they are played in the browser you can add shortcuts to your desktop :-)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/...a650ddb5d7.jpg

UPDATE 15 FEB 2011. Two more to add......

CrazyChess..Quite a nice chess game with several levels of difficulty, you have to take the pieces with your white piece as they advance down the board whilst avoiding being captured yourself.
A good, fun game that helps speed of thought I suppose.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/...d5d97b2691.jpg

ChessMineFields..Place your pieces safely onto the board in a given amount of time. Great little time killer.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5015/...c9448f33dc.jpg

Uploaded to rapidshare, just about 3mb....download, extract and copy to N900.
I have them in a chess folder on my SD card with shorcuts...

http://rapidshare.com/files/448025669/Chess.rar

One final thing, as i've said before, i'm not a developer but was hoping somebody who is could have a look at these links and see if there is any possiblity? :-)
http://www.dreamchess.org/
http://www.dreamchess.org/downloads.html

Incidentally, the chess game I use most now though is Chessmaster on the SNES emulator...looks and plays well in 2D mode.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/...255fae801b.jpg

Re: Flash Chess
 

Man, you deliver... :)

Are these free apps or...?

Re: Flash Chess
 

:-)... yep, all free, they're flash apps just gathered from around the web.

really looking forward to your miniature app though...would love a program to play through some PGN's.

Re: Flash Chess
 

I'm taking the liberty of bumping this because I've added a couple more games and a new link. :D

Re: Flash Chess
 

Where do you get the FlashchessIII from mate? Looks good and like you, I enjoy a game or two :)

Re: Flash Chess
 

It's in the download rar from rapidshare in my first post, just download and extract :-)

Source:- http://www.sparkchess.com/

Re: Flash Chess
 

Thanks buddy for the good and free stuff : )) Looking forward for more ) http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=578717 flash chat

Re: Flash Chess
 

AHA well done Dan we actually share the same desires for a damm good chess game, will keep you busy on them lonely bus rides home late at night hehehe.

Re: Flash Chess
 

Thanks abill, Actually , I usually ride a motorbike home most of the time and save the buses for when I fancy a drink after work - never tried playing chess while riding but it's a thought! :eek:

Should have updated this thread though because all my chess needs are currently sated by Garnet.
I have Chess Tiger, Chess Genius, Hiarcs and Openchess installed and they all work excellently...
Here are some screen shots:-

Open Chess
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/...e1f1bf1256.jpg

Hiarcs
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/...0a9ec53b35.jpg

Chess Tiger
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/...83228b328c.jpg

Chess Genius
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5019/...f6e802bfde.jpg

And they all have changeable views, similar to this:-
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5053/...8932972369.jpg

And I've also now got Eboard for playing through PGNs

Re: Flash Chess & Garnet VM (Palm) Chess
 

wow, lots of cool options .. Agree that the inbuilt chess game is pretty dumb. Shall check out couple of other games listed above !

Thanks for sharing this info mate!