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With the launch of iOS 4, the iPhone has become one of the most impressive smartphones ever created. All the popular 99Games titles are being worked on to make them iOS 4 supported. |
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Chess Elite manages to capture the attention of one of the top female Grandmasters Natalia Pogonina. She is also a member of the Russian Chess Olympic team. Natalia is planning to pop in from time to time and play Chess with the Chess Elite community players. |
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| Chess Elite |
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What is?
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Create New Game
| Create New Game allows you to choose from the 3 game modes. |
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1. Local Play Mode: Lets you play against the device or against an opponent locally.
2. Play With Contacts: Lets you play against your address book contacts by following a simple registration procedure.
3. Play With Community: Lets you play against players anywhere in the world by following a simple registration procedure. |
Local Play Mode
In Local Play Mode, you can select between Device and Pass & Play. Tap on  to make a selection. |
Playing Against Device
To play against the device, Select your coin color as Black or White. |
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Next, set the Engine Strength between 4 and 120 seconds. In the screenshot above, the response time chosen is 10 seconds. |
Pass & Play
In Pass & Play Mode, you can play against a human player.
To get started, enter the opponent's name in the space provided.
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Choose the Flip Type by tapping on . |
1. No Flip: Makes the board remain stationary after a move
2. Coins Flip: Flips the coins after a player makes his move
3. Board Flip: Flips the entire board after a player makes his move |
Play with Community
Play with Contacts
Game Status
The two options available in the Game Status are:
1. Local
2. Online |
| Local Game Status lets you see all the games in progress and shift between them to play multiple boards at a time. |
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| Online Game Status lists all the challenges received, challenges sent and moves made. |
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| The game can continue as long as one of the players makes a move every 14 days. |
Replay & watch
Replay & Watch lets you watch and review all the games that you have won and lost. |
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Just choose the game you want to watch and hit Play to see how the game progressed. |
Settings
Settings lets you view and edit the game settings. You can change the look of the board, turn off the sound or Legal Moves indicator if you want and choose not to highlight the last move.
The default settings look like this: |
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Settings can be accessed from within a game by tapping on  |
Toolbar
Engine Strength
| The Engine Strength determines how well the device plays. As you increase the Engine Strength, the time taken by the device to respond increases and it will be able to analyze its moves better. This will increase the difficulty in beating the device. |
Turn Indicator
The Turn Indicator at the top of the screen shows who is supposed to make the next move, ‘White’ or ‘Black’. |
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Push Notification
Push Notification alerts you when you receive a new challenge request. This enables you to know that a challenge has been received directly from the main menu. |
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Notifications will be displayed on the App icon in case you have quit the App.
You also receive a Push Notification in case the player you’re playing against makes a move in an online game.
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Note: Push Notification works only if you have logged into your account and enabled Push Notification in the device settings. |
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How to?
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Send a challenge
To send a Challenge Request, Go to ‘Play with Community’ and login by entering your email id and password. The list of players who have registered with us will appear.
When you hit the Challenge button, a notification will be sent to the player and the challenge request will then appear under ‘Challenges Sent (awaiting response)’ in your Game Status screen.
If the player accepts your challenge, a notification will appear on your Game Status screen stating that the challenge has been accepted. Next, the player with the white coins (‘My Turn’) must make a move to start the game.
If the Challenge is ‘declined’ then it is removed from the ‘Challenges Sent (awaiting response)’ list.
Note: A Challenge request expires if not accepted within 7 days. |
Receive a challenge
To accept a Challenge, Go to ‘Play with Community’ and login by entering your email id and password.
Next go to the Game Status page and tap on the ‘online’ tab, the Challenges Received will appear on the screen. Tap on the check/cross mark to accept/decline a challenge. If you choose to accept, the Challenger will be notified and the request will disappear from your screen.
The game will appear in the ‘My Turn’ or ‘Opponent's Turn’ section when the challenger responds to the Challenge accepted notification. Next, the player with the white coins (‘My Turn’) must make a move to start the game.
Note: A Challenge request expires if not accepted within 7 days. |
Move a piece
To move a piece just tap on it, lift your finger and then tap on the destination square where you want to place it.
An alternate way of moving the pieces is by dragging the piece with your finger and dropping it where you want to place it. |
Adjust engine strength
To adjust the engine strength, select Local Play mode and then choose Playing Against Device option. |
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Set the engine strength by dragging the slider. The strength will be updated as you drag. |
Pick an opponent in local play
| Go to the Create New Game option in the main menu and choose Local Play mode. Tap on to choose between the device and human player. |
Play with contacts
Play With Contacts mode lets you play against your address book contacts by following a simple registration procedure. |
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To begin, tap on New Registration and register by entering your email address and password.
Next, select an opponent from your address book to send an invite if the opponent is not registered. The invite must be accepted within 7 days. In case the opponent has already registered, you can directly send a challenge request. |
Play with community
| To play with any of the players around the world who have registered with us, register yourself with 99Games by tapping on New Registration and entering your email id and password. |
| Next send a challenge request to any player around the world and check for a response notification on the Game Status screen. If the player accepts your challenge request, you will receive a notification of the same on your Game Status screen. |
Change the theme
| To change the look of the board and coins, choose from the various themes available. Go to Settings in the main menu and select Chess Board option. Now tap on any one of the 9 themes to select it. |
Highlight last move
| To highlight the last move made, go to Settings and switch on the Highlight Last Move option. |
Get a hint
To get a hint for your next move, tap on  in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, and the next best possible move will be highlighted. |
Undo a move
To undo a move, tap on  in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This option lets you undo as many moves as you want. Using this option, removes the last two moves from the board. |
Redo a move
To redo a move, tap on  in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This option lets you redo as many moves as you want. Using this option puts back the last two moves on the board. |
Start a new game
| To start a new game, select Create New Game from the main menu and click on the mode you want to play in. |
View game status
| To view the game status, select the Game Status option from the main menu. You can view the list of current local games being played and also the Challenges sent and received online. |
Watch a game again
| To watch the replay of the games played, select the Replay and Watch option. The list of all the saved games will appear and you can choose any one of them to watch again. Hit Play to see how the game progressed. |
Check whose turn it is
| To keep track of which player has to make the next move, watch the turn indicator at the top left corner of the screen. The turn indicator shows who is supposed to make the next move, ‘White’ or ‘Black'. |
Flip the board after a move
| To enable rotation of the board after a move, select Create New Game option from the main menu and go to Local Play mode in it. Selecting Pass & Play option here will allow you to choose the flip type. Choose Board Flip to rotate the board after a move. |
Flip the coins after a move
| To enable rotation of the coins after a move, select Create New Game option from the main menu and go to Local Play Mode in it. Selecting Pass & Play option here will allow you to choose the flip type. Choose Coins Flip to rotate the coins after a move. |
Check for updates
| The Online Game Status can be checked from within the game. Just tap on the Update button on the top right corner of the screen to check the Online Challenges received and sent. |
Forfeit a game
To forfeit a game, tap on  in the toolbar and then click on OK. The particular game would then be listed under Games Lost. |
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License acknowledgement for the word lists used in WordsWorth
SOWPODS and TWL word lists are freely available for download from many sites
on the Internet and appear to lack any licensing terms.
The nearest thing to a license text for ENABLE is as follows:
The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble community,
as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers may feel free
to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please mention the source
and credit us as originators of the list. Note that if you, as a game
designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, you may still copyright and
protect your product, but you may *not* legally copyright or in any way
restrict redistribution of the WORD.LST portion of your product. This
*may* under law restrict your rights to restrict your users' rights,
but that is only fair.
M Cooper and Alan Beale
More information on the respective word lists can be availed from the following websites:
TWL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWL
SOWPODS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOWPODS
ENABLE: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1736033, http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/software.html
Please get in touch with 99Games Support
team if you have any questions or feedback.
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| Our Chess Apps |
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There are three versions of Chess from 99Games. Which one is suitable for me?
Chess Lite is for beginners or for those players who would like to learn a few tricks and Chess Rules. You can play against the iPhone, or vice versa.
This version has a medium level complexity, with the last, next and legal moves highlighted, limited Save/ Load option, and a demo to show you how iPhone plays Chess.
Chess Pro is for the seasoned Chess players, who know the rules of the game and wish to be challenged with different complexity levels and variants such as Suicide and Losers. This version has 3 levels of complexity, 3 variants, 3D themes, Save/ Load/ Resume options, legal moves hint, last move and next move hint and many other features.
Chess Elite is for Online play where you play against real-players across
the world. Chess Elite fuses the power of one of the strongest Chess Engine in App Store with the power of Web to keep you connected on the go and provides you with the best challenges. The game is perfectly crafted for both the beginners and the advanced players.
How to play Suicide and Losers variant?
Suicide: Suicide is a form of chess where the goal is to
lose all your pieces. Your king acts like a normal
piece and can be captured, and you can promote
pawns to a king. If you can capture, you must.
Suicide is sometimes referred to as giveaway or anti-chess,
although there are minor differences between variants.
In suicide, castling is not allowed, but in giveaway
it is. If a player is stalemated, he loses in giveaway,
but in suicide he wins if he has less material than his
opponent.
You can get more
information about this variant from Wikipedia.
Losers: Losers is similar to suicide with the exception
that the king may not be captured, you cannot
promote pawns to kings, and if you are checkmated
you win.
How do I play Chess?
Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. You can also play the game against a device such as iPhone, Mac or a PC.
If you have an iPhone/ iPod touch, download Chess from iTunes store and launch the game. Run the 'Demo' option to see how iPhone plays the chess game. For more detailed moves, visit Wikipedia for detailed Chess rules.
What is Castling? How do I do it in your Chess game?
As mentioned in Wikipedia - Castling is a special move in the
game of chess involving the king and either of the original rooks of the
same color. Castling consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook,
then moving the rook onto the square over which the king crossed. Castling
can only be done if the king has never moved, the rook involved has never
moved, the king is not in check, and the king does not cross over or end on
a square in which it would be in check. Castling is considered a King move.
How do I do a pawn promotion?
Which Chess engine do you use?
You are making use of GNU Chess. Can I get the source code?
Sure. We have modified the Sjeng source code and as per the GNU GPLv2 terms we will be providing the entire source code on demand, free of charge. Please email to our support team. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for the modified source code.
We thought of packaging the entire source code with the Binary uploaded to App Store. If we do this, there is no way that a user can extract the source code from the application downloaded on the iPhone/iPod touch. So we have given the above provision.
Why do you charge fee for a GNU GPL Program?
As per "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION" of GNU GPL Programs, "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
We have invested a lot of effort in bringing this Chess Engine from a PC platform to the iPhone platform and also optimized the UI and the performance to suit the iPhone standards. We are also providing necessary support and future bug fix releases. Thus we charge a very nominal fee to support our effort in catering you with the best and most memorable iPhone Chess experience.
Does this Chess implement "en passant" rule"?
Yes, Chess Lite and Chess Pro implements it, as well as any other chess rule known to FIDE.
Please check Wikipedia for the rules of En passant. You can check the complete chess rules from Wikipedia.
Can I upgrade from Chess Lite to Chess Pro by just paying the difference amount?
No. Chess Lite and Chess Pro are two different editions. You have to purchase them separately from iTunes App Store.
Do I have to pay for updates?
No. If you have purchased Chess Lite or Chess Pro, you are entitled for free bug fix updates. The updates might include some exciting new features as well.
There is a bug in this game and I have some suggestions as well, where do I send them?
You are welcome to report bugs, suggestions, and feedback or give testimonials. Send them to support@99games.in We will respond immediately.
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