OpenChess

can it be that there is really so far NO serious web os chess program ?

that is - amazing.

in old days we had tiger chess, hiarcs, naum, open chess, genius etc....

and now, there is NOTHING ??

ah moment. it seems there is a port of stockfish/glaurung:

http://www.nexave.de/forum/39191-app-pre-chess-pdk.html

in the moment i am testing advanced chess by
version 0.1.2 with stockfish 1.7 engine
by Matthias Eck.

In the about box, he thanks:
Niel Pearce, Rick Boatright, Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kliski,
Salvo Spitaleri.

the chess program for palm pre and palm pre plus can be downloaded as freeware
and gives a good b/w chess board, you can also choose many different levels, also 3' average, so that i can play tournament chess games (40/120) with it.
you can set it up the way it shows main-line and evaluation (in this version 0.1.2 no search depth is shown, but matthias promised to make it visible in later releases).

the gui is written in java, but the engine is a true full speed running application,
such as droidfish for android phones.

due to the fact that i cannot see any search depth and no NPS, it is difficult to relate
the speed of the device with other hardware/mobiles/tablet pcs.

maybe matthias can, in later releases, show search depth / NPS so that we can relate the hardware/OS.

on the 500 mhz original palm pre speed, stockfish 1.7 under advance chess gui is doing ~8.000 NPS.

you can overclock the device to 800 mhz or 1 Ghz and the engine is computing either 13.000 or 16.000 NPS.

of course it would be the best to relate the engine , if it is 1.8 version of stockfish.

The 1ghz processor in iphone 4 was clocking about 75 kn/s with StockFish 1.7.

thanks for the info.

APAD rockchip 600 mhz: 10.000 NPS
Palm pre 500 mhz: 8.000 NPS (oc. 1 Ghz 16.000 NPS)
Snapdragon 1 Ghz handy: 100.000 NPS
Iphone4: 75.000 NPS
ZT-180 10,2" Pad : 15.345 NPS
HD2 2.2 Froyo ~109000

HIARCS Palm Chess Pro has been updated to include the latest HIARCS 13.1
chess engine with a +70 Elo improvement over 12.1, new games databases and
the latest HIARCS opening books.

This is the major upgrade over Palm HIARCS 9.7 and has the following major
enhancements:
1) New Hiarcs 13.1 chess engine well over 170 Elo stronger than the 9.
series!
2) Configurable Set Elo opponents from Beginner to Grandmaster depending on
the speed of the PDA. Settable by class or exact Elo. These levels can be
applied to any time control so better simulate playing a human opponent.
3) Energy Saving Handicap levels to dramatically save battery life.
4) Energy saving analysis for prolonged battery life.
5) Load Game Databases - many game databases available for free from
http://www.hiarcs.com
6) Load Next Game from database
7) Delete Game Database
8) Reduced database record size means more game storage
9) Game Variations using Game Branches
10) Game Branch Navigation, Previous and Next
11) Game Branch Set Deletion
12) King and Pawn v King Database Heuristics for exact play
13) Offer Draw to Hiarcs
14) Resign Game, Hiarcs also resigns
15) Adjudicate Game Result
16) New opening books with latest opening theory and new book learning
17) Openings automatically named using large ECO reference
18) New Elite Piece Set

this is nice but palm web os is not compatible with palm os.

new versions of mathias ecks advanced chess do now have a nicer chess board in blue and show the search depth.

well done !!