This evening Iván (of Tracker hacking fame) and I tested Miniature with a real pub-chess game. Overall result: SUCCESS! One hour playing passed away just like that.

Posing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quimgil/4270188306/
And the real one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quimgil/4269447455/

He liked the rotations of the game. The display dimming was an interesting side effect, like a polite silent voice telling you to stop thinking and make your move. The game ended abruptly after one hour due to a human mistake but one of us got already enough advantage... The app itself was stable and solid.

The test was very useful to proof the fluent workflow: select piece -> select destination cell -> validate. Iván felt it was natural and useful. In fact he could save his queen once thanks to this. Observing him playing was useful to find also a tiny UX improvement.

Please, find a friend and give Miniature a go in real life. Even if it's in Extras-devel and contains some bugs the app behaves quite well with your system. Just enable Extras-devel, download the app and disable Extras-devel again to avoid potentially ugly updates of other apps you might have installed.

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