When I originally created JustChess, I had a problem. If you were playing a game, and pressed the new game button, then started another game, you could press back and […]
Can’t play chess in landscape mode!
Another one of the great issues brought up by a user of JustChess, my simple chess playing Android app, was the fact that when the screen was rotated, you can’t […]
The game restarts on screen rotation!
After my JustChess app hit the F-Droid repository, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that people were trying it out! With every wave of players, however, came a new wave […]
Fool’s Mate Friday?
Fool’s Mate Friday is going to take a little detour, as I work on learning a new programming language. If you have followed my blog at all, you will notice […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Is the King safe from pawns?
Pawns can be scary things. They can en passant, they can form chains and islands, they can promote to the all powerful queen. Not to mention they can checkmate you. […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: UT and Chess.com
As I mentioned earlier. I jumped off the deep end and dove into the world of Ubuntu Touch. One of the principle hangups I found was that there was not […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Now with moving pieces!
According to the Guinness World Records, the biggest playable chess set was made in Canada in 2009, with a king that was about 4 feet tall! Try moving that chunk […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Identifying the board square by number.
Identification please! Did you know that there have been numerous cases of mistaken identity for the masters of chess in print? There are so many that websites have even devoted […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: JustChess, shaken, not stirred….
Well, I suppose the Bond reference does sound a bit out of place here, but perhaps if we break it down it will not seem to be so. In the […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Chess books ancient and modern….
There are many ancient writings about chess and the various pre-chess games that obviously inspired chess itself. The first recorded European chess writing was a poem called ‘Versus de scachis’, […]