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What are good, cheap chess computers that you can either download onto your mobile phone or buy a handheld for?

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Short of an app for an iPhone or iPod Touch (like ChessGenius or Deep Green), there's HIARCS for Palm hand-helds (reviewed here).

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DeepGreene wrote:

Short of an app for an iPhone or iPod Touch (like ChessGenius or Deep Green), there's HIARCS for Palm hand-helds (reviewed here).


Anything decent for regular phones, or a handheld device designed for chess use only?

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I've never seen anything for regular cell phones, but I haven't really looked.  There's this dedicated hand-held that I've heard people talk about, but I've never seen one up close.

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I've got Shredder on my mobile, good for tactics puzzles etc

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DeepGreene, is that thing supposed to be good? I spend a lot of time in the car and was looking for something to train me.

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The Excalibur hand-held?  Sorry, no idea.  I've never messed with one of these units that represents the figures with LEDs.  That's a turn-off for me, but maybe I'm being unfair; I've never seen one up close.  Maestro makes a similar looking unit.

You mean you spend a lot of time in the car as a passenger, right?  Smile

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On my cellphone, I installed Chess by Cellufun, which I find to be very well made (in addition to being free).

I only wish it had move animation (or at least highlighting), because sometimes it's hard to see where the program moved.

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LOOKING TO BUY HAND HELD CHESS COMPUTER,RECOMMENDATIONS WELCOME

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Anything by Mephisto by Saitek are allways good perhaps somthing from the Kasperov series might be suitable. 

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THANKS JOHN,APPRECIATE THAT.

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Chesshouse did a nice comparison table for what I guess are three of their most popular handhelds here:

http://www.chesshouse.com/Compare_Portable_Electronic_Chess_Sets_s/316.htm

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PDA with Fritz 3 installed will keep you busy!

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I still miss my Novag Sapphire...  It was a great little device, but discontinued back in the 90s for whatever reason.

It was very strong & highly configurable.  (Actually, as far as the program and set-up goes, I think it was every bit as good as the Novag Obsidian I just bought late last year.)  The LCD did a great job of communicating moves and even announcing "mAte n 3" and "re5n" (i.e. "I resign"), etc. 

It came with a neat little magnetic analysis-style board (for non-masters of blindfold chess), but of course you could easily play on any board you wanted.