ChessGenius v2.2.02

ChessGenius v2.2.02

License: Free
Price: Free

Description
ChessGenius, award winning chess program. Packed with features for beginners and experts: 30 playing levels including easy and blitz - Chess clocks - Move record - Display of thinking - Save/load game. Superb playing strength. The authors chess programs have won ten world championships.

Features

• Free updates
• Incredibly strong play
  Excellent play even on the 'instant' level
• Thirty playing levels
  Ten easy levels. ChessGenius makes deliberate mistakes
  Ten time based levels. Instant, 1 sec, 2 sec, 3 sec, 5 sec, ... 3 mins
  Ten Blitz levels. Whole game in 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 5 min, .... 120 min. The Chess Clocks count down in these levels. You lose if you run out of time
• Game information
  The last moves of the game
  Chess Clocks. Total White and Black time and move time
  Main line. For example, the line may show:
  "1.03 05 cxd4 Nxd4 Nc6 Bb5" This means that:
  ChessGenius is winning by 1.03 pawns. Search depth = 5, and line of moves. ChessGenius is planning cxd4 and expects Nxd4 in reply etc
• Set-up position
  Any legal position can be entered
• Take back and Step forward
  Take back moves to start of game and Step forward to end of game.
• Hint
  Let ChessGenius suggest your move
• Players
  Play against ChessGenius, against another player or watch ChessGenius play itself
• Analyze game
  Like 2 player mode but ChessGenius calculates continuously and shows its thinking on the small board view. Useful for replaying games to see where mistakes have been made or for playing over an imported PGN Master game
• Rules of Chess
  Understands all the rules of Chess including, en-passant, underpromotion, castling, draw by repetition and the 50 move rule. Announces a draw if there is insufficient material to win
• Save and Load games
  Games can be saved and loaded in PGN files. Multiple games per file. Easy to import and export to PC chess programs
• Permanent brain option
  ChessGenius assumes that the human player will play the hint move and calculates its reply whilst waiting. It will play stronger
• Tutor option
  ChessGenius will warn if a blunder / weak move is played and give the option of take back
• Big chessboard option
  Choose between two chessboard sizes
• Show legal moves option
  If this option is enabled tapping a piece will show all the squares the piece can move to. If the piece has no moves all pieces that can move are indicated
• Championship
  A Championship icon is displayed if you have not used Hint, Taken back moves or viewed the Main line. Can you beat ChessGenius without help?
• Board coordinates option
  Coordinates can optionally be displayed on the chessboard
• Hash tables for stronger play
  The size of the hash tables can be adjusted from 64kb up to 16mb

Requirements
ChessGenius for Windows Mobile runs on all Windows Mobile 6.5, 6.1, 6, 5 and 2003SE / 2003 devices.
It runs on touch screen with stylus devices e.g. Windows Mobile 6.x Professional, Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Windows Mobile 5, 2003SE / 2003 for Pocket PC.