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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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| * 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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| == Features ==
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| None. Minuature is currently vaporware. :(
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| == Roadmap ==
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| Draft. Sorted by priority.
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| Items with "?" are optional/dubious and might be moved for later phases of development or removed from the roadmap once we focus the discussion on them.
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| === Play games online ===
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| # Chess game basics, demonstrated off-line.
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| ## Finger friendly UI.
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| ### Mechanism to avoid false moves. First tap to point square, second to confirm?
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| ### TODO: extract all move mode proposals from thread so we can evaluate them while comparing working examples.
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| ## Portrait mode.
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| ### TODO: find out why "setAttribute( Qt::WA_Maemo5ForcePortraitOrientation, true); setAttribute( Qt::WA_Maemo5ForceLandscapeOrientation, false);" is not sufficient (used [http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt-x11-maemo git master from here], but it now says: "don't use it". Perhaps [http://qt.gitorious.org/+qt-developers/qt/x11-maemo/commits/4.6-fremantle-rebased this] just works now?)
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| ## Pieces can be moved manually.
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| ## Only legal moves are possible.
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| ### Option to highlight legal moves?
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| ### TODO: draw a sequence diagram or similar to demonstrate the necessary interactions between remote server, our game component, and the board representation. Also indicate how the user is notified.
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| ## "Black/White Wins!" banner after a mat.
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| ## Resign.
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| ## Pawn promotion, piece selection.
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| ### Queen autopromotion?
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| ## Draw request/accept.
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| ## Timer
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| ### Time limit warning?
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| # Online chess basics, targeting http://www.freechess.org/ first
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| ## Log in & out
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| ## Register
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| ## Search challengers / by time
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| ## Propose a game
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| ## [http://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/timeseal.html Timeseal] support.
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| # Online chess advanced
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| ## Join tournaments
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| ## Full access to FICS console (might make sense only in landscape mode)
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| === Chat with your opponent ===
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| # Landscape support.
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| === Customization ===
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| # Download and select different boards and pieces.
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| # Download and select different engines.
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| === Play with other opponents P2P e.g. via Bluetooth ===
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| === Learn chess lessons with moves + text ===
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| # Positions can be set manually.
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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 ===
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichess Antichess]
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 Chess960]
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| === Display games by you or others, live or stored ===
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| (moved to back since [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=364101&postcount=58 Chessmonk] is concentrating on this for Maemo 5 - not that urgent)
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| # History of an opening.
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| # Take a picture of a printed game, process the notations with OCR and display it.
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| # Display several games at a time.
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| # Watch game via webcam stream
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