Saturday, March 22, 2008

Chess problems in your phone

This little thing can make you waste serious time if you like chess problems :)
Only tested in my SonyEricsson W810i, it should run in most of the phones with MIDP 2.0 + CLDC 1.1 support. It requires a phone with at least 176x176 pixels in screen resolution.
It supports UNDO and REDO and has the first move of the solution as a hint (if you feel impatient).



The problems belong to the books:

J. W. Abbott: 121 Chess Problems (1887)
F. Healey: 200 Chess Problems (1866)
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I must thank the guy who converted those PDF files to PGN files, without that I would have been spent more time translating the positions to FEN, I only needed to prune off the bad problems and add the hints, the original PGN files can be found here:
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You can choose from 4 different sets of pieces, every set has been composed by me, so every one of those pixels belong to me!! :D
To say the truth, the "Da Vinci" set was inspired in this article:
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However I guess I couldn't capture the spirit and interchanged the knight by bishop.

DOWNLOAD:
chessProblems.jar
chessProblems.jad

Have a nice day!

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