Chess Tiger is one of the strongest chess programs in the world. It has been rated as the world's strongest chess program TWICE. Now it is available for all the Palm handhelds and all compatible computers, phones and PDAs, including the Palm Centro line, the Palm Treo line, the Palm Tungsten line and all the handheld computers made by Sony.

With Chess Tiger you get an opponent able to adapt to your strength and help you to improve your chess... Everywhere!

For beginners:

• Just tap on a piece and the program shows you all the legal moves for this piece (this works even in the unregistered mode)! Naturally this "teacher mode" can be disabled as soon as you become an experienced player.
• 8 trainer levels of increasing difficulty designed to improve your chess skills.
• The engine knows and applies all the official rules of chess.
• The engine is of very high quality, the guarantee to learn from a good professor.
• Chess Tiger is able to adapt itself to your strength and will give you winning opportunities, so the game never bores you.
• Chess Tiger can give you a reasonably good advice when you do not know what to do.
• Hold the stylus on an icon for one full second to get help on its function.
• Shows the captured pieces: so you always know who has the material advantage.

For experts:

• Chess Tiger is one of the strongest chess engine available in the world. It has been rated as the world's strongest PC chess program TWICE by the SSDF (an independant organization which is regarded as the most reliable source in the field of computer chess).
• Chess Tiger for Palm has achieved a rating of 2101 SSDF elo, or 2101 FIDE elo (more than 2300 USCF elo). The SSDF list is the worldwide recognized and independent computer's rating list.
• The Chess Tiger engine on PC has recently been ranked #1 on the SSDF list.
• Chess Tiger 14.0 running on a PIII-866MHz PC has achieved for the first time in history a Grand Master Norm!!! It was in Argentina in July 2001 during an official tournament. Chess Tiger has beaten one International Master and four Grand Masters in a row, achieving the astounding performance of 2788 Elo!!!
• Chess Tiger for Palm includes all the chess knowledge of the PC version. It is actually the same engine, with the only difference that support for endgame databases has been removed and that a Palm is not as fast as a PC.
• Chess Tiger for Palm is the strongest chess engine available for the Palm platform. This has been demonstrated by playing matches against the other Palm chess programs. Chess Tiger has won all the matches. More information on our FAQ pages at www.chesstiger.com (click on the "FAQ" link located at the top of the page).
• You can save your games, and replay them later.
• You can exchange games and positions with your favorite PC chess program with the built-in PGN and EPD support.
• You can set up any position.
• The engine displays its thinking, up to 20 plies ahead.
• The engine supports all kind of time controls, including blitz (any number of minutes) and multiple controls. You can play using up to 3 time controls, for example 40 moves in 2 hours followed by 40 moves in one hour followed by rest of the game in 30 minutes. All the time controls are fully customizable.
• You can analyze games with the "analysis mode": just browse through a game and let Chess Tiger give its opinion about each move. You can detect blunders and missed opportunities. Use it to analyze your own games and improve your play! The engine is able to prepare its answer while its your turn to move with its "Turbo mode" feature (also called "Permanent Brain").
• The amount of "hash tables" (a cache memory that helps the engine to be stronger) is configurable, from 12Kb to 12Mb.

Most recently added features:

• Support for high resolution graphics with high resolution piece sets.
• Improved chess engine: the new chess engine retains all the strengths of the classical Tiger engine but is now 60 elo points stronger. Most problems will be solved twice as fast in average, and the engine will now play moves it would have been unable to find in previous versions. For example, Chess Tiger on a Palm T|X is now approximately 2315 FIDE Elo (european scale) or 2515 USCF Elo (american scale).
• Display of the computer's estimated Elo strength in the "Speed index" dialog.

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