Valentin Iliescu Chess

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A fully-featured freeware chess game based on Microsoft .NET Compact Framework

• easy-to-use interface with nice graphics
• 4 playing modes: play locally (against the computer or in two-player mode) or over the internet (against a chess XML Web Service or against one of your MSN Messenger buddies)
• chess engine with 6 difficulty levels
• full understanding of the chess rules: draw by repetition / by 50 move rule / by insufficient material, castling, en passant etc.
• save/load games in FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) format
• automatically resumes an interrupted game
• board editor
• move history in standard algebraic notation
• two image sets to choose from
• can rotate the board
• gives next move hints
• small size (under 200KB)

Pocket PC/Pocket PC 2002 with .NET Compact Framework 1.0 or Pocket PC 2003 is required.

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Great graphics, good engine and its't free....

by europebeat   from Chicago, IL
on Oct 15, 2004

If you don;t expect much from freebies, you're wrong on this one. Very stable with good graphics and good engine. I'm not a very good chess player (I don't know my ELO) but so far I cannot beat the game on level 4 and higher. If you are looking for a chess game, get this one and spend your money on something else. This one is a winner.

Great Chess Game

by Jonny   from Melbourne, Australia
on May 24, 2004

Graphics of this game are good and a must have chess game for Pocket PC, download it.

Great game!

by a reviewer   from New York, NY
on Jan 28, 2004

This is a great app for your PPC, no doubt about that, but the chess engine is nothing to write home about. I have already beat the computer on my iPaq h1940 in 5 of the 6 playing levels in my first 2 days after downloaging this freebie. I'm working on level 6 - the top level. For comparison, my Yahoo chess rating is in the 1600's. Nevertheless, this is a pretty fun program, and I suggest you try it before wasting your money on pay software. Of course there is the option of playing an online chess engine, which should be stronger than the local PPC engine, but I wasn't successful in my attempts to connect to the online engine, nor to the MSN messenger feature to play against other people. Perhaps others can troubleshoot that problem, because there's nothing about it in the help section. All in all, it won't be of concern to you if you play leisurely, because unless you are a chess brainiac, the computer will whip your bottom most of the time. If after using this program you are still not satisfied (and I doubt it will be the case) - then, and only then should you consider dishing out some cash for other programs. The program takes up a relatively small amount of disk-space, which is a big plus in PPC's. It has pretty much all the features the pay software have, such as saving games as files, move hints, board setup, switch sides in midgame, and undo moves, and MSN compatibility to top it off.