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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/''' |
| Miniature is a chess board that is always with you, ready to let you play and learn wherever you go.
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| * The main use case is playing online against other players at http://freechess.org (FICS)
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| * Now imagine that you can also chat with the other player.
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| * Learning is important: watch games live, review stored games and also process offline the lessons offered at FICS.
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| * Play P2P games against other players next to you or in your Contacts.
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| * And not only regular chess. See also Antichess, Chess960...
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| Miniature is based on Qt, targets Maemo as primary platform and plans to have ports for Symbian, Windows Mobile and desktop OSs (Linux, Windows, Mac).
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| == News ==
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| * 2009-11-17: [https://launchpad.net/~michael-hasselmann/+archive/miniature/+packages Miniature available for your desktop PC]
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| * 2009-11-16: A first & dummy [http://maemo.org/packages/view/miniature/ .deb package of Miniature] is available in Maemo 5 extras-devel.
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| * 2009-11-11: "(10:52:48 PM) mikhas: well, it's confirmed: Miniature runs on Qt 4.6, on the N900"
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| * 2009-11-10: Talk thread started: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=371747 Miniature development: Play chess games online]
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| * 2009-11-09: [http://taschenorakel.de/michael/2009/11/09/miniature-it-moves/ Miniature - it moves!], first blog post from Michael Hasselmann.
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| * 2009-11-08: [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=368538&postcount=117 First running example] mimicking the "first realistic mockup".
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| * 2009-11-06: Code repository created: http://gitorious.org/miniature - source code exists since the beginning.
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| * 2009-11-06: [http://wiki.maemo.org/images/2/26/Miniature-playgame-portrait.png First realistic mockup for playing basic online chess] (portrait).
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| * 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33764 Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo]
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| == Features ==
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| Miniature is still not ready for end users. It doesn't play offline games and doesn't even know how to go online.
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| [http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-devel_free_armel/miniature/0.1-1 Miniature 0.1-1] is available in Maemo 5 [[Extras-devel]], a repository recommended only to developers. End users will do good staying far from it.
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| This version can:
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| * Boot a screen in portrait mode.
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| * Display a nice-looking board (nice when the SVG transparency bug is fixed).
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| * Set the pieces in starting position.
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| * Move pieces freely with a basic finger friendly gesture: first tap to select the piece and second tap to drop it in a square.
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| * Highlight the selected piece.
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| * There is some (buggy) functionality to check the previous/next move.
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| Check [[Miniature/Development]] to follow the latest status and to get involved.
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| == Screenshots ==
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| This is how the real application looks like in v0.1-1.
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| <gallery widths=200px>
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| Image:Miniature_rooks_and_knights.jpg|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Miniature learns chess in korius' development branch. Here rooks and knights know how to behave with each other.</div>
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| Image:Miniature glossy svg.png|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Miniature with a glossy SVG board (contributed by tbf) as seen in the SDK.</div>
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| Image:Screenshot00.png|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">Miniature right after boot in the N900. It should look nice and glossy but there is a bug in the missing SVG transparency.</div>
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| Image:Miniature Screenshot01.png|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">The opening looks nice and the UI is finger friendly, very usable and actually precise.</div>
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| Image:Miniature Screenshot02 20091116.png|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">We are still teaching Miniature how to play proper chess. </div>
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| </gallery>
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| === Mockups ===
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| How things should look like in the future. (We are looking for real designers!)
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| Image:Miniature-playgame-portrait-start.png|<div style="padding:0em .5em;">First boot.</div>
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| </gallery>
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| == Contact us ==
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| Questions, feedback and contributions are welcome!
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| * Talk discussion thread: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34242 Miniature development: Play chess games online].
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| * With some luck you will find us online at #miniature in irc.freenode.net.
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| == Development ==
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| See [[/Development]] for more information on developing Miniature.
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| There are some [[/Policies | policies]] that we follow in the project.
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