Another user on chess.com (Stacybearden) gets chess.com on his I-phone and plays that way but it is not a computer game like you are talking about. I don't know how he does it, I am to old to look at a little bity screen.
Cell Phone Chess?
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Jul 11, 2008
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I have Kasparov Chess on my phone. I enjoy it alot. It has three different levels of play. I am a beginning chess player so it is challenging for me. I'm playing at the second level right now. It only cost $5.00 or $6.OO so if you don't like it not much is lost.
all chess games I know of on a cellphone were a mistake...
The thinking over each move takes ages and then the moves itself are extremely silly, or almost even random.
I've never had any joy in playing on a cellphone, once you come up with a plan, after 3 minutes of thinking it just trades the queen for a knight
I don't know if this qualifies as "Cell phone chess" but I got challenged by a friend to play a text-message chess. Basically just kept sending each other the moves "1-e4" "2-Kf3" and so on. It took forever and during the endgame he tried to make a move that in my board was illegal (something like taking his own knight with a pawn moving backwards) .... so one of us had messed up. nonetheless it was fun.
I have the mobile version of chessmaster on my phone. It's surprisingly good. In some ways I prefer the AI on the mobile version to the PC version. The PC version lets you be lazy when playing lower rated players - you can sit back, wait for the inevitable hung piece and then press home in a quiet endgame.
Lazy, shallow moves will get you nowhere with the phone version. Even on the low levels, the phone will make sensible (though equally shallow) moves. As such you will need to plan deeper than your phone.
A warning: getting beaten at chesss on a regular basis by your telephone is an unedifying experience :)
I've been getting into the game of chess lately and I would like to know if any of you have any chess games on your cell phone? I know that many exist but before buying one for my Samsung d407 (old but works
) do any of you have any experience with cell phone chess games and any advice as to which games are better than others? Thanks