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[edit] Archived news
- 2010-07-12: P2P support available. Play against other Miniature users. Full changelog here
- 2009-12-21: Miniature learns to use animations (0.1.5-1). Miniature is now using exclusive features of Qt 4.6.
- 2009-12-20: Miniature got a bug tracker component, thanks to André!
- 2009-12-18 Miniature 0.1.3-1 released for Maemo and Ubuntu, preparing for the offline mode.
- 2009-11-28: First bug report. :)
- 2009-11-27: Miniature 0.1.2-1 released for Maemo and Ubuntu with first Chess rules applied.
- 2009-11-26 Another logic analyzer update: move rules for all pieces are available, pawns promote to queens and black and white take turns.
- 2009-11-25 Logic analyzer update: only king moves and pawns' en-passant captures are missing.
- 2009-11-23 Miniature starts learning chess with rooks and knights
- 2009-11-17 Some shortcuts taken in order to get faster the minimum set of features.
- 2009-11-17: Miniature available for your desktop PC
- 2009-11-16: A first & dummy .deb package of Miniature is available in Maemo 5 extras-devel.
- 2009-11-11: "(10:52:48 PM) mikhas: well, it's confirmed: Miniature runs on Qt 4.6, on the N900"
- 2009-11-15: Basic Finger UI for board implemented - pieces can be moved freely.
- 2009-11-10: Talk thread started: Miniature development: Play chess games online
- 2009-11-09: Miniature - it moves!, first blog post from Michael Hasselmann.
- 2009-11-08: Miniature now has the following components: a main window, a board, a game controller and a scene view for the UI. It can play any game that is stored in a sequence of FEN strings.
- 2009-11-08: First running example mimicking the "first realistic mockup".
- 2009-11-07: Piece set committed, the same used by Wikipedia.
- 2009-11-06: Code repository created: http://gitorious.org/miniature - source code exists since the beginning.
- 2009-11-06: First realistic mockup for playing basic online chess (portrait).
- 2009-11-04: Portrait mode gets priority to maximize board size + chats won't come till later.
- 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
[edit] Miniature for Maemo 5 (unstable)
Miniature 0.1.3-1 is available in Maemo 5 Extras-devel, a repository recommended only to developers. End users will do good staying far from it, but there is a launchpad PPA with irregularly updated Ubuntu 9.04 packages.
New features in the last version:
- Candidate UI to move pieces: one click to select piece, second click to select destination square and click to an external button to confirm the move. Pieces and squares can be changed at will before clicking the confirmation button.
- Checks are detected now.
- Backend fixes improving the responsiveness of the moves.
Features implemented in previous releases:
- Boot a screen in portrait mode.
- Display a nice-looking board.
- Set the pieces in starting position.
- Enforce basic chess rules except:
- Checkmate
- Stalemate
- Castling
- En-passant
- Pawn promotion (works in the desktop version)
[edit] Old screenshots
This is how the real application will look like in v0.1.x-x.
 Cool little animation to show that pieces turn around between the moves
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 Situation after white's move: The player with the black pieces also is able to see it's pieces from his/her point of view
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 Starting position for human vs human, face to face.
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 Selecting one piece to move.
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 Selecting destination square.
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 Miniature learns chess in korius' development branch. Here rooks and knights know how to behave with each other.
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[edit] Old mockups
How things should look like in the future. (We are looking for real designers!)
 First boot.
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Very old. ;)
[edit] Users
Do you want to test Miniature and it's cool possibility to play against other people over the air? Or do you want to make simply a match versus someone who is part of the community?
-> A list of users should help you to get an Opponent.
[edit] References
- Crafty is a free, open-source computer chess program.
- EBoard and Crafty for the N810/N800/N770 - OS2007 Downloads page.
- Knights aimed to be the ultimate chess resource for the K Desktop Environment... years ago.
- pacaq is a chess game visualizing and analysis tool done with the Maemo 4.1 Qt4 port - Talk thread.
- From all programs on this list, this is the only one were reading the code is worth your time.
- SCID, a chess database application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems.
- See also SCID Pocket
- Xboard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms.
- freechess.org Website of the Free Intrnet Chess Server (FICS)
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