Would anyone be interested?

I've got the gameloft game of chess, but it's obviously amateur when compared to a Chessmaster 8000, which I assume would be easily just "converted" to work on an iPhone/ipod.

There would be nothing better than a tutorial rich / ai opponent rich game on the small handhelds to play on my frequent trips to the loo or perhaps even the train ride to work.

Anybody heard anything about a release possibility?

Question:
Would anyone be interested?
(iPhone / iPod Chessmaster 8000 or over)

Choices:
Yes
No
Why would you, chess is best on PC only
Only if it was better than "mobile edition"

 

I've heard that a Mac version is in the works; unfortunately, no release date has been set.

If I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an iPhone release...

You know what actually would be pretty cool? If someone wrote a well-featured correspondence chess app for the current crop of smartphones, one that gave you alerts when it's your turn in a game, when a player sends you a message, or whatever. It couldn't possibly be that hard to do, and it would be nice to get "push" chess on an iphone or blackberry or windows mobile or something.

I don't know... I still wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Ubisoft...

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...one that gave you alerts when it's your turn in a game, when a player sends you a message...

While I really like Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition's correspondence chess, this is a large oversight... you have to log into the server in order to get messages or find out if a move has been made. Why they didn't think of e-mailing you when a move has been made is beyond me.