To me, there are three important things to understand before taking on any type of new project. And that is research, research and research.

That all night, coding marathon on programming legal piece movement has been done before, several dozen times over by others, and I'm sure that the open source code for this was already available somewhere just looking to be found.

I think someone should step up and volunteer as a sole researcher for Miniature. Find parts of open source coding that is currently needed, play virtually every available chess program that could potentially fit within the framework of this project, and document all records if certain coding is being used from another author. You know, junk like that.

Maybe I missed the post somewhere but I don't remember reading any type of research that has been done already. It will save time in the long run.

Don't look at me to do this though.

I have no intention of getting a N900 and I wouldn't have the first clue how to run Ubuntu on my computer.

I can donate some iTunes cards though if needed. It's my wife's iPhone that I don't ever use. If no one else has one either I guess I could always ask her if it's okay to borrow it for awhile.

By the way, I think that this was the program that Miniature could borrow the most from since it features finger friendly touch screen controls and a dynamic UI. No stylus needed.

T Chess Pro