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It has been out for a while now. I got it straight away. There are some benchmarks of various WP8 devices running Chess Genius http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47607&start=10 Richard Lang is probably the most prolific app developer for all the platforms, has versions for Palm, Win Mobile, ...

new mobiles, xiaomi mi2 and google nexus4: Samsung Galaxy Note2 (4 cores) 714.000 ASUS Transformer TF300T (4 cores) 661.000 Galaxy S3 (4 cores) 574.000 LG Optimus 4xHD (4 cores) 521.000 iPad4 510.000 iPhone 5 (2 cores) 476.800 HTC one X tegra3 (4 cores...

That is exciting news, many historic games can now be judged with the aid of 7 men TB. If I remember correctly that Spassky vs Fischer where Fischer played the famous Bxh2 that experts were undecided that if best play lead to a draw or win for Spassky, some key positions required 7 men TB to correct...

benchmark for machines running chess genius: genius-benchmark 1.a3 a6 in analysis mode. output Nokia Lumia 620 (windows phone 8), 1 Ghz: 0.07 11 Nc3 d5 d4 Bf5 Bf4 e6 e3 Nc6 16937117 in 1'4" 264.642 NPS 0.01 12 Nc3 d5 e3 Nc6 Nf3 Nf6 Be2 Bg4 85517667 in 5'38" 253.010 NPS Samsung Note2 (android 4.1.2)...

mclane wrote:Yes a pity that there are only so Few Programs available.

Yes, I hope that developers will see the potential for making quality fairly priced apps on probably the worlds 3rd most popular mobile operating system as a good business case.

Never got a chance to get the early Chess Genius release, but will wait a few more weeks for it to be released again. http://www.chessgenius.com/unsupported/index.html#WinP8 Best online app for FICS is Chess Club, missing certain features that Chess Mobialia (Android) or ICC chess app on iOS has. WP...

Hi, Any info on the Nokia Lumia 920? Does it use the same processor as another phone on this list? Nokia Lumia 920 is Windows Phone 8 device, no chance to run StockFish on this device. :cry: really ? is there no chess program for windows using stockfish, can't believe that. what about scid ? I have...

simonhue wrote:A new video by Valiery Lilov on Borislav Ivanov's last two tourneys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhfCUdy2Tzk&hd=1

I wonder if Lilov will make a new video on Borislav from he latest tournament.
http://chess-results.com/tnr93301.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1

Yes, according to the Facebook page it seemed that release was imminent back in early January. Only Robert Houdart will be able to shed some information on expected release date.

Alex, I have an early working prototype for both WP8 and Android platform. But I've been overwhelmed with iPad requests: iPad and iPhone 5 must be delivered before anything else. WP8 will definitely come before Android. Android is the most popular platform, but it is also the most difficult platfor...