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| You love chess. You love Maemo and its devices. You believe they fit so well... yet you haven't found a convincing implementation of a chess game for Maemo. '''Miniature''' to the rescue!
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| == The concept ==
| | '''We are moving to http://miniature-chess.org/''' |
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| More or less:
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| * The main use case is playing online against other players at freechess.org
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| * Now imagine that you can also chat with the other player.
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| * Playing against the computer is a given (chat is optional)
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| * Learning is important and it would be great to watch games, review stored games and also process offline the lessons given at certain times in freechess.org
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| * A variant would be to play against othe player with a compatible device via local network or bluetooth.
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| * I guess if we got at this point then implement variants such as suicide chess, random house, etc is peanuts.
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| Basing this on Qt 4.6 would be useful to assure the Fremantle - Harmattan path, be fully compliant with whatever the Ovi store brings and have ports for Symbian, Windows Mobile and desktop OSs (Linux, Windows, Mac).
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| == Project status ==
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| Kicking off. Nothing exists. Just a [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33764 Talk thread], a [https://garage.maemo.org/projects/chess/ Garage project] and this wiki page.
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| The developer mailing list is [https://garage.maemo.org/mail/?group_id=1107 chess-developer@garage.maemo.org]
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| == Mockups ==
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| These are the current sketches.
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| [[Image:Miniature_normal_mode.jpg|frameless|caption]] [[Image:Miniature_normal_options.jpg|frameless|caption]]
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| === Old ;) ===
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| [[Image:Miniatura-playgameh.png|frameless|caption]] [[Image:Miniatura_alternative.png|frameless|caption]]
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| == Use cases and features ==
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| Draft. Sorted by priority.
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| # Play games online
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| ## http://www.freechess.org/ support
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| # Display games by you or others, live or stored.
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| # Learn chess lessons with moves + text.
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| # Chat with your opponent.
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| # Play with other opponents P2P e.g. via Bluetooth.
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| # Play local tournaments e.g. via Telepathy Tubes.
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| # Play against computer.
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| # Chess variants (suicide, randomhouse...)
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| == Technology selections ==
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| How to make the most from existing free projects avoiding forking and duplicated work as much as possible.
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| * Qt 4.6 for UI layer. The goal is to have Maemo as primary development platform, aiming for straight ports to Symbian and other Qt compatible platforms.
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| ** Can we save work by looking at [http://pacaq.sourceforge.net/ pacaq] and [http://knights.sourceforge.net/ Knights]? Others? --[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:22, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
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| * What starting point to get the online chess features?
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| * What starting point for chatting?
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| * What starting point for game analysis?
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| ** [http://scid.sourceforge.net/ Scid] ([http://packages.debian.org/lenny/scid see dependencies]) would be nice by itself and as gateway to [http://www.craftychess.com/ Crafty] ([http://packages.debian.org/lenny/crafty see dependencies]) and other engines.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:22, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
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| == Architecture ==
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| Logic:
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| * Game - the logic for a particular game, right now that would be just chess, but other board games could be possible too. (Chess based or other)
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| * Pre-Game - How to find players, select a server or engine
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| Domain:
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| * Board - Represents the data structure of the board (duh)
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| * Player - information about the other player, like online status, skill level
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| Communication:
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| * ICS
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| * Bluetooth
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| * Telepathy
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| * Computer Chess Engine - an offline engine should be accessed the same way any online game is, the engine does not have to be in the same task
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| == References ==
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| * [http://www.craftychess.com/ Crafty] is a free, open-source computer chess program.
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| * [http://www.v7f.eu/public/n800/chess/ EBoard and Crafty] for the N810/N800/N770 - [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2007/chess OS2007 Downloads page].
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| * [http://knights.sourceforge.net/ Knights] aimed to be the ultimate chess resource for the K Desktop Environment... years ago.
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| * [http://pacaq.sourceforge.net/ pacaq] is a chess game visualizing and analysis tool done with the Maemo 4.1 Qt4 port - [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=21793 Talk thread].
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| * [http://scid.sourceforge.net/ SCID], a chess database application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems.
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| ** See also [http://scid.sourceforge.net/scidpocket.html SCID Pocket]
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| * [http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/ Xboard] is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms.
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