When you'all get your chess game see up, I'll spot anyone here 10 seconds in a 1-min game or 1 min in a 3-min game if you'll promise to play me on the N900. I'm confident I'll come out way ahead.

Even without such a test, I'd love to see a video of someone playing speed chess on any tablet or phone.

But then, I've tried playing on FICS with my tablet. What has been the experience of any of you who might disagree with me? My bet is that no one else in this thread has ever tried speed chess on a tablet.

My USCF rating was something like 2178 when I was active...That was before I started working for Garry Kasparov.

I used to play competitive chess as a teenager. But we never gotten higer than state level. And I suck at speed chess. So I guess I am not playing against geneven.

geneven, 1 min is indeed a fast case thit might not be optimal for a Maemo device. Although moving pieces with a mouse on a PC screen also takes time!

However, the FICS default is 4 12 if I recall correctly and I never had problems finding quickly players for 5 0 or 15 0.

Watching games is another case, indeed!

So we have already a garage project in its way? Cool! Now I have to run for dinner but I'll be back later, or tomorrow.

That is a good reference, yes. For the 4.6 and official Maemo support part see http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-for-maemo-developers

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/chess/

Great, but... which services do you plan to use?

I just went through the ICS protocol description. Or what I could find of it.
(That is the protocol used by FICS)

Wow, that is from the middle ages of the internet... It is wordy and seems redundant in some places. It is basicly an interactive telnet session with pretty much plain English as commands and resonses.
The first challenge will be to write or adept an interface for that.

It would be worth to investigate whether there is a Qt engine already doing that, not to repeat work.

http://knights.sourceforge.net/ comes to mind.

I will check that out.

I am also looking at the XBoard client.
http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
It is written in C and the ICS parsing might be reusable.
Also the project seems to be still very active.

andybehr and I have made already the first project decision:

Miniature

http://wiki.maemo.org/Miniature

See also: [Announce] Chess game analysis tool with Qt based GUI

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacaq/