News
- 30th June 2010: PocketGrandmaster 4.3 released!
PocketGrandmaster 4.3 is now compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and newer devices.
- 18th December 2009: iGrandmaster 1.0 released!
iGrandmaster is a chess program for iPhone and iPod touch and
is developed by xenoon GmbH,
Timm Knape Softwaretechnik and
Mediengestaltung Thomas Kolb. View the video below to get a first impression
of iGrandmaster in action!
- 14th March 2009: PocketGrandmaster 4.1 released!
Most improvements over version 4.0 are changes to the FICS/ICC mode:
- New dialog to show and load previous games played on FICS/ICC (history).
- New dialog to display finger-notes of players.
- Integrated timeseal on FICS.
- More space in the Chat/console-window.
- A notification is shown when a chat-message comes in.
- New "Formula"-checkbox in the Seek-dialog.
- Draw/resign must be confirmed before sending it to the server.
- Bugfixes
- Playing with black on FICS didn't work for some customers.
- Starting games when one players Elo is below 1000 does work now.
- The clock now works correctly when playing games with slow timecontrols (>1h).
- Some minor bugfixes.
Other new features include:
- The "Replay" mode can now be used to let the engine play/finish a game
(autoplay).
- The coach shows the thread-move when warning.
- Highlight legal moves now shows unattacked squares.
- The super-strong chessengine Naum for PocketGrandmaster is available
from it's author.
- 9th December 2008: PocketGrandmaster 4.0 released!
PocketGrandmaster 4.0 runs on devices with VGA, QVGA, WVGA and
square-screens. New: PocketGrandmaster 4.0
comes with a built-in FICS-
and ICC-client, so
you can play people from all over the world on two
of the most popular chess servers.
- 2nd October 2008: Again PocketGrandmaster 3.0.1 won Pocket PC
magazine's Best
Software Awards! It was the fifth victory since 2003 and the fourth
in a row.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
PocketGrandmaster 2.0 supports the DGT electronic chessboard
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- 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:
- 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
- 19th December 2001: PocketGrandmaster 1.1 released.
- 15th December 2001: final beta of PocketGrandmaster available!
