My favorite chess app is
http://www.chessgenius.com/

With the Palm OS VM from access
http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/
this
http://www.chessgenius.com/palm/index.html
could also work on a N810.

I can't try it myself because the N810 is not available here yet.

Chess Genius + Palm OS VM from access seems to be a good solution, but... it seems that the game will use only part of the screen area ?? Can it play full screen ?

Eboard, which was ported to the N800, is better, but it is for playing chess vs human opponents on FICS or ICC, which are chess servers that people from around the world play on, 24 hours a day. But it hasn't been made available for the new software yet; I hope it is.

Personally, I would rather play a person any day than a computer. In general, computers play boring chess.

I don't know but I'm not visually impaired so I don't care. The screen is big enough on my Palm TX and it will be the same size on the N810 in the VM. I just care about the chess functions and I don't know anything better.

Eboard and the crafty engine are now ported for OS2008:

http://www.v7f.eu/public/n800/chess/

works fine on my N800. :-)

Ciao jukey

Sweet! I just installed it on my N810 and it looks great. I haven't started exploring eboard's features yet, but just having crafty is a big plus.

In addition to playing games, I'd like to load a pgn, be able to enter (and save) variations, and call on crafty to analyze a position. Scid does all this, but requires java. I'm not sure where the Java port for OS2800 stands at the moment; once it (Java) is done, scid should be straightforward, right?

anywa, thanks for eboard & crafty!

scott

Scid doesn't need java as far as I can see..
It needs tcl/tk
Yesterday I ported tcl.
"Only" tk remains (tough actually) and scid should be ported.

But don't count on me for testing the capabilities ahah, I'll leave this to you.

Thanks for the correction. can't think why i was thinking java; i must have been focusing on java/kaffe when i installed scid & conflated requirements.

Anyway, I'll eagerly await the tk port (good luck with that!). Scid+crafty+eboard makes the N810 as complete a pocket-chess device as I can imagine.

scott

In 2mn, it will be available.



I really have no clue what this program is actually..

Scid packaged for OS2008. Consider this release candidate, not stable without user testing.

Installation works at least..

You'll need to add my repository. If everything is fine, scid should be displayed.

Hope you have fun with it.