iPhone beta testers wanted

[Tord Romstad]

Hi all,

It's taken a long time, but Glaurung 2 for the iPhone (which uses Stockfish 1.6 as the internal chess engine) is finally getting close to finished. Because I've long since lost contact with my old beta testing team, I'm looking for new or returning testers.

Because I don't want binaries, screen shots or information about new features to get leaked before the program is released, I'm looking for a small number of people who I feel sure I can trust. I probably won't accept everyone who asks to test. But if I do decline your request to become a tester, please don't take this to mean that I don't trust you: It could just as well mean that I have already found a sufficient number of testers.

Those of you who are interested in testing, please drop me an e-mail (tord at glaurungchess com) or a personal message. Make sure you mention what model of iPhone/iPod Touch you own, and whether you are a Windows or Mac OS X user.

[M ANSARI]

Sure Tord let me know what you need.

[supersteve3d]

hi Tord,

I think I helped test Glaurung and Abaia ( Cydia - prior to App Store approval).

I'd be happy to help you test the Stockfish engine.

Cheers,
Steve.

[Andre]

Hey Tord,

I just sent you a pm in case you're interested

[towforce]

Slightly off topic, but I would think that a good option would be to write the program in Java - then maximising the potential of any given hardware or OS becomes the job of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and not the chess programmer?

[sockmonkey]

Slightly off topic, but I would think that a good option would be to write the program in Java - then maximising the potential of any given hardware or OS becomes the job of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and not the chess programmer?

But then it won't run on the iPhone, at least not for the foreseeable future. Virtual machines are explicitly prohibited by the SDK license (there have been some exceptions mde for emulators and the Frotz VM, but I am pretty sure that the clause was made to avoid Java support).

Jeremy

[towforce]

Slightly off topic, but I would think that a good option would be to write the program in Java - then maximising the potential of any given hardware or OS becomes the job of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and not the chess programmer?

But then it won't run on the iPhone, at least not for the foreseeable future. Virtual machines are explicitly prohibited by the SDK license (there have been some exceptions mde for emulators and the Frotz VM, but I am pretty sure that the clause was made to avoid Java support).

Thanks - wasn't aware of that. IMO, customers would be better off buying phones that support Java applications.

[M ANSARI]

Actually not having Java support in the Iphone is really a PIA. I use it to check up on my stock portfolio locally, where they use a Java applet to show the live stock prices with supply demand of each stock. I think it is not a technical issue but rather something that has to do with Apple wanting to compete with Java.

[maxchgr]

What about for Blackberry. Would it run? (If not, are there any good chess programs for the Blackberry?)
I like Stockfish, this is cool news.

[Sean Evans]

Hi all,

It's taken a long time, but Glaurung 2 for the iPhone (which uses Stockfish 1.6 as the internal chess engine) is finally getting close to finished.

Hi Tord,

Sorry to ask you this newbie sounding question:

I use Glaurung on my iPod is it not utilizing the "Glaurung engine"??

Or is Glaurung just the GUI and you place other programmers engines in Glaurung.

Oh and thank you for your hard work and offering your product as a free download. I still have not beaten it, but I do wish you had made the opening book significantly larger as it plays the same moves over and over.

Thank you,

Sean