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Landscape. Motorola Q,  Blackjack

Tested and certified "Designed for Microsoft Windows for Smartphone

• 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. Easy take back and step forward with the numerical 1 and 3 keys.
• 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. 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, under promotion, 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 a PGN file. Multiple games per file. Easy to import and export to PC chess programs.
• 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
  

• Full support for Windows Mobile 6.0, 5.0 devices and landscape QVGA screens such as the Motorola Q and Samsung Blackjack

New features of version 1.4

• Fully compatible with all Smartphone devices.
  Runs on WM 5.0 devices and on Smartphone 2003se, 2003 and 2002.
• Full support for the QVGA screen of WM5 devices.
• Display of opening classification and name.
  For example, "B12 Caro-Kann defence"
• Next best move option.
• Improved graphics.
  new color piece set.
• Improved database functionality.
  Replace game. You can load a game, modify it and replace it. Good for keeping track of postal games.
  Database now remembers the last game loaded. Much easier to load the next game.
  

• Stronger play. 
  The Chess engine has been optimized for the Intel XScale processor using tools provided by Intel and now runs between 25% and 40% faster.
• Choice of chess sets.
  New piece set based on Bryan Whitby's Challenger set.
• Show legal moves option.
  After selecting a piece ChessGenius shows where the piece can move to.
• Show last move option.
  ChessGenius can indicate  the previous move. 
• Smart move entry option.
  This can reduce the number of key presses to enter moves.