Miniature

Mobile chess freedom!

Miniature is a free chess board that is always with you, ready to let you play and learn wherever you go

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  Download from the Nokia Store.
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  Login to FICS as registered user or guest.
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  Seek and create challenges.
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  Play! Silently or chatting with your opponent, up to you.

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Platforms

Miniature is based on free software (open source & free of charge). Our goal is to run it on any Qt enabled platform.

• Supported: MeeGo Harmattan in the Nokia N9 and N950.
• Experimental: Maemo and MeeGo Community Edition for the Nokia N900.
• Contributors welcome to maintain versions for Symbian, Linux Desktop...

Feedback, features and ports to other platforms & devices are welcome!

Project news

• 2011-11-02: Miniature 0.5 RC is available! Try it on your Fremantle (N900) or Harmattan device (N9, N950)! Feedback and Bug reports welcome!
• 2011-10-06: Miniature 0.5 London 1851 plan agreed (meeting log)
• 2011-10-06: Downloads statistics available: 230 N9 users from Nokia Store after 3 weeks.
• 2011-09-22: Miniature localization via Transifex started - around 15 Translations are work in progress at this moment
• 2011-09-14: Miniature Facebook is available.
• 2011-09-14: Miniature published in the Nokia Store.
• 2011-09-13: Miniature 0.4 De Lucena released.
• 2011-09-13: Miniature bootlegged for Maemo.
• 2011-09-11: first chat playing a game in Miniature.
• 2011-08-31: First tweet sent by @MiniatureChess: e4.
• 2011-08-29: first patch from Uwe Kaminski aka jukey committed to the Miniature project. Thank you!
• 2011-08-28: "New seek" feature implemented, mikhas and jukey play the first Miniature vs Miniature game from their devices.
• 2011-08-26: First real & unstable FICS games played. First it was mikhas against himhelf, then mikhas-qgil.  :)
• 2011-08-25: How quick I got started with Qt Quick - blog post from Quim Gil featuring Miniature.
• 2011-08-25: Miniature 0.3 runs in MeeGo 1.2 CE on a Nokia N900 (with some bugs).
• 2011-08-23: Miniature 0.3 Berlin Defence released.
• 2011-08-15: New Miniature UX concepts integrated to the master branch - the new engine gets a UI (screenshot).
• 2011-08-13: Miniature can be developed using Qt Creator (instructions).
• 2011-08-01: Miniature 0.2.1 released! The new Encore engine and the new QML UI, together for the first time. The game can do real seeks but still no real games.
• 2011-07-27: New UI targetting MeeGo Harmattan developed in parallel - source & packages for Nokia N9/N950.
• 2011-07-18: engine refactored around Encore, a GNUChess wrapper. This is the beginning of a rewrite.
• 2011-07-06: request to port to Meego : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?p=25031

History

Yes, we do have some history at this point. It all started here:

• 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo

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