Showing posts with label problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label problems. Show all posts

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Chess problems in your phone

This little thing can make you waste serious time if you like chess problems :)
It has been only tested in my SonyEricsson W810i, but I hope it could 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 to the guy who converted those PDF files to PGN files, without that I would have 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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DOWNLOAD:chessProblems.jar
chessProblems.jad

Have a nice day!