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Games » Board Games
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Uses 430KB of RAM
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Shareware
$29.95 USD
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Application Summary:
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The BEST SELLING and STRONGEST Palm chess program. For all players from beginners to experts: Teacher mode - 8 trainer levels - 100+ serious levels - World class chess engine - 6 board sizes!
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Application Specifications:
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Submitted: March 22, 2004
Last Update:
March 16, 2009
Minimum Requirements:
Any Palm OS Hardware
Palm OS 3.1
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Statistics:
Total Downloads: 9347
Downloads this Month: 19
Resolutions Supported:
Sony Hi-Res (320x320)
Sony Hi-Res+ (320x480)
Palm Hi-Res (320x320)
Palm Standard (160x160)
Handera Hi-Res (240x320)
Palm Hi-Res (320x480)
Palm Hi-Res Landscape (320x480)
Tapwave Full Screen (480x320)
Tapwave (320x320)
Palm OS5 Support:
Palm 5 Compatible
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Application Description:
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Strongest Palm OS chess program.
For all players from beginners
to experts: Teacher mode -- 8 trainer levels -- 100+ serious levels --
world-class chess engine -- 6 board sizes!
With Chess Tiger you get an opponent able to adapt to your strength and help you to improve your chess...anywhere!
"It's easily the best chess program on the Palm OS."
--Handheld Computing
"By far and away the best chess program for Palm..."
-- David Dunbar, Chess guide for About.com
"The most powerful and flexible chess program offered for Palm PDAs
is Chess Tiger for the Palm."
-- Chris Kantak's LCD Chess Information Site
NEW! version 2009 now available!!!
For beginners:
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Just tap on a piece and the program shows you
all the legal moves for this piece (this works even in the unregistered
mode)! Naturally this "teacher mode" can be disabled as soon as you become
an experienced player.
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8 realistic trainer levels of increasing difficulty
designed to improve your chess skills.
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The engine knows and applies all the official
rules of chess.
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The engine is of very high quality, the guarantee
to learn from a good professor.
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Chess Tiger is able to adapt itself to your strength
and will give you winning opportunities, so the game never bores you.
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Chess Tiger can give you a reasonably good advice
when you do not know what to do.
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Hold the stylus on an icon for one full second to get help on its
function.
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Shows the captured pieces: so you always know who has the material
advantage.
For experts:
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Chess Tiger is one of the strongest chess engines available in the world.
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Chess Tiger for Palm has an estimated rating of 2400 FIDE Elo (or 2600 USCF Elo) on a 600MHz PalmOS device.
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The Chess Tiger engine on PC has been ranked number 1 on the SSDF
list, TWICE.
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Chess Tiger 14.0 running on a PIII-866MHz PC has achieved for the first
time in history a Grand Master Norm!!! It was in Argentina in
July 2001 during an official tournament. Chess Tiger has beaten
one International Master and four Grand Masters in a row, achieving the
astounding performance of 2788 Elo!!!
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Chess Tiger for Palm includes all the chess knowledge of the PC version.
It is actually the same engine, with the only difference that support for
endgame databases has been removed and that a Palm is not as fast as a
PC.
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Chess Tiger for Palm is amongst the strongest chess engines available for
the Palm 68K platform. This has been demonstrated by playing matches against
the other Palm chess programs. More
information on our FAQ pages at www.chesstiger.com.
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You can save your games, and replay them later.
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You can exchange games and positions with your favorite PC chess program
with the built-in PGN and EPD support.
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You can set up any position.
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The engine displays its thinking, up to 20 plies ahead.
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The engine supports all kind of time controls, including blitz (any
number of minutes) and multiple controls. You can play using up to 3 time
controls, for example 40 moves in 2 hours followed by 40 moves in one hour
followed by rest of the game in 30 minutes. All the time controls are fully
customizable.
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You can analyze games with the "analysis mode".
What's new in Chess Tiger 2009 (Oct 15, 2008):
- Support for high resolution graphics with high resolution pieces sets.
- Improved
chess engine: the new chess engine retains all the strengths of
the classical Tiger engine but is now 60 elo points stronger. Most
problems will be solved twice as fast in average, and the engine
will now play moves it would have been unable to find in previous
versions. For example, Chess Tiger on a Palm T|X is now
approximately 2315 FIDE Elo (european scale) or 2515 USCF Elo
(american scale).
- Display of the computer's estimated Elo strength in the "Speed index" dialog.
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Download trial:
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Shareware
$29.95 USD
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User Reviews:
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30-Oct-07 by Paul Harker
In the world of chess programs, it seems that everyone is concerned about which is the "strongest". Chesstiger has been for years at the top, or near the top of the list. However that is not why Chesstiger is my preferred chess program. The reason I choose this over the others is because it plays the most natural game when playing at reduced strength. It feels like you are playing against another person, not a computer that plays perfectly and then tosses away a piece.
16-Jun-07 by Chan-joo Moon
The strategy is very mature. I had tried different chess games and they sometimes have ridiculous, eliminate pieces type of strategy. It's not very fun or thought-provoking when it's like that. This one makes you work hard to control the board, like chess should be played. Very challenging. Highly recommended.
20-Jul-05 by Kevin Agot
This is a great game for all levels of gameplay. I'm a newbie but have learned a lot about chess. The myriad of functions allows you tailor-make your gaming or learning experience. Fantastic! Now, if only the graphics had a smoother, hi-res finish (like it's competition), it'd be perfect. I hope the developers will come out with an updated look sometime soon...
08-Feb-05 by David Clark
This is a fantastic Chess software program (which I have been using for nearly 2 years now.) The interface is very intuitive and customizable. It has many levels from fairly easy to very difficult - I'm just an average/occasional player and I enjoy the games very much - It makes my bus journey into work pass by in no time. I also use it to study games which I sync to the Palm Memos - nice feature. I've tried other Palm Chess programs, but this is my favourite. Faultless software - 5 stars.
02-Oct-04 by Michael McMillan
For my money Chess Tiger is the best you can get on the Palm, period.
I base this claim on two things - the strength of play is excellent (Chess Tiger trades dominance with the other "serious" Palm chess program, both of which play at a level far superior to the vast majority of players.) and the user interface and display are streets ahead of the competition, making Chess Tiger the most natural and enjoyable to play.
It's also nice to see that the latest version (15.2) brings Chess Tiger up to Palm OS6 compatibility so I am confident that it will just keep getting better. How they manage to sell it for less than its main rival is a mystery!
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