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20th November 2007: For the third time in a row PocketGrandmaster won Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards. It was the fourth victory since 2003. Click here to register the four times winner now!
Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine Best Software Awards

21st October 2006: Yes, they did it again! PocketGrandmaster 3.0 was selected as the Winner of the Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards 2006 in the "Games: Chess Games" category. This is PocketGrandmaster's third victory after 2005 and 2003.
8th March 2006: a new description by Gary Morton describes, how to connect the DGT electronic chessboard to PocketGrandmaster.

18th December 2005: PocketGrandmaster 3.0 released. PocketGrandmaster 3.0 supports Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and runs on devices with VGA, QVA, 240x240 and 480x480-screens.

5th November 2005:PocketGrandmaster 2.1 was selected as the Winner of the Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine's Fifth Annual Best Software Awards 2005 in the "Games: Chess Games" category. This is PocketGrandmasters second victory after already finishing first in 2003.

20th September 2005: Dr. Axel Schumacher published a very comprehensive comparison of more than 60 PDA chess programs, which lists PocketGrandmaster as Winner Pro for Pocket PCs.

27 July 2005: PocketGrandmaster and PocketGrandmaster for Smartphone are nominated in Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards 2005. Update (5th of November): PocketGrandmaster won!

29 September 2004: PocketGrandmaster is now Finalist in the "Games: Chess Games" category of Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards 2004
19 August 2004: Pocketgrandmaster has been nominated by Pocket PC Magazine as a Best Product in the "Chess Game" category (Pocket PC version) and in the "Board Games" category (Smartphone version).

10th July 2004: a new installer for Mac is available from the download page. It also works for PCs and it can install PocketGrandmaster on devices with XScale/StrongARM/Mips or SH3 processor.

23th October 2003: Heureka! PocketGrandmaster 2.1 was selected as the Winner of the Pocket PC 2003 Award in the "Games: Chess Games" category.

2nd October 2003: PocketGrandmaster and PocketGrandmaster for Smartphone are now Finalists in the "Games: Chess Games" and "Games: Board Games" category of Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards 2003
13th August 2003: PocketGrandmaster 2.1 released. PocketGrandmaster 2.1 supports Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 now, features are identical to PocketGrandmaster 2.0.

8 August 2003: Pocketgrandmaster has been nominated by Pocket PC Magazine as a Best Product in the "Chess Game" category (Pocket PC version) and in the "Board Games" category (Smartphone version).

1st May 2003: Pocketgrandmaster for Smartphone released (see press release)!
PocketGrandmaster for Smartphone runs on Windows powered Smartphones like the Orange SPV. It features a strong engine, three chess sets and various boards, many different levels, an openingbook and a training mode. You can get it from Smartphone.net or Handango.
PocketGrandmaster for Smartphone Screen PocketGrandmaster for Smartphone Menu
1st Dezember 2002: Pocketgrandmaster is "Todays Choice" ("Tipp des Tages") on Shareware.de and won the Editors' Choice Award for the month of November 2002 on pdaPointer.com.
1st November 2002: PocketGrandmaster 2.0 released (screenshots).
New features include:
  • more piece sets and squares
  • many new features like load next/previous game, jump to start/end of game, send game
  • new coach- and training-mode
  • comfortable context-menu to access frequently used commands
  • spoken announcements of moves
  • PocketGrandmaster 2.0 supports the DGT electronic chessboard
    PocketGrandmaster and the DGT-Board

    3rd October 2002: Pocketgrandmaster is now Finalist in the "Board Games" category.


    21th August 2002: Pocketgrandmaster 1.2 has been nominated by Nitin Gupta of Pocket PC Magazine as a Best Product in the "Board Games" category.

    12th May 2002: PocketGrandmaster light released. Highlights:
  • very easy to use
  • strong chess engine
  • more than 10 levels
  • loads/saves .pgn files
  • low price
  • discount for upgrading from PocketGrandmaster light to PocketGrandmaster

  • 16th February 2002: PocketGrandmaster 1.2 released.

    15th Feburary 2002: new FAQ-page in the support section.

    4th January 2002: PocketGrandmaster 1.1 is rated
  • 5 cows at Tucows
  • 5 stars at Pocket PC Life

  • 19th December 2001: PocketGrandmaster 1.1 released.

    15th December 2001: final beta of PocketGrandmaster available!