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Comment on The Best Chess App for iPhone Keeps Getting Better by Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:12:12 +0000

Love the game, thanks! It would be great if you could update it with high res graphics. I saw you just updated it for iOS 4 but the graphics are still blocky. Thanks again for a great UI.

Comment on Happy New Year by Joachim Bondo

Joachim Bondo — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:15:03 +0000

Hi Justin,

I’m working on a universal update that will support the larger screens of the iPad and iPhone 4. Unfortunately, circumstances beyond my control have made it very hard to get the work done, so it’s taking longer than I’ve wanted it to. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised, though…

Comment on Happy New Year by Justin

Justin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:04:26 +0000

Any plans to update the graphics in Deep Green for the iPhone 4?

The graphics that Mikio crafted are so beautiful, it would be really great to see them updated for the new high-res display. Perhaps this will be part of Deep Green 2?

Comment on Happy New Year by Alderete

Alderete — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:34:36 +0000

Adding another vote for an iPad version. What a lovely piece of software!

Comment on The Best Chess App for iPhone Keeps Getting Better by Tomboy

Tomboy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:01:10 +0000

I think this chess engine (v. 1.1) is not very clever: im am not very good to chess – I am always close to winning over this chess engine (in relation to such Kasparov Chess, where I often is far from winning). Therefore, i need a faster and much smarter chess engine.

Comment on Happy New Year by Ethan Sherbondy

Ethan Sherbondy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:34:56 +0000

I hope that on Wednesday you added “Launch Deep Green for iPad” to your list of things to do this year.

I’m looking forward to it.

Comment on Happy New Year by Michy Kant

Michy Kant — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:01:50 +0000

Happy New Year to you too!

Deep green really looks beautiful, I just love chess!

Comment on The Deep, Green Sounds by Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:28:49 +0000

Keep up the great work, Joachim!
I just wrote a review of your game but (forgive me ;-) I didn’t make any words about the new sounds. It was written a few months ago and was a draft only until now. Maybe you translate and read it if you have time.

Comment on The Deep, Green Sounds by Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:57:02 +0000

Hi Joachim,

the sound integration you have done into Deep Green is great. It gives the game a whole new dimension.

I would suggest to add also an option for some additional background noise – like the sound of a chimney fire and the chiming of a grandfather clock every 15 minutes. Or maybe the squabbling and babbling of an large library.

Comment on The Best Chess App for iPhone Keeps Getting Better by Joachim Bondo

Joachim Bondo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:11:50 +0000

Carlos,

I’m sorry to hear this. Which iPhone OS version are you running?

After having upgraded to version 3.0, I’ve noticed that my iPhone 3G gets very hot too. Also when not running Deep Green at all. Evidently hotter than under version 2.2. And I’ve noticed that some of the animations don’t run as smoothly under version 3.0. I talked to an iPhone engineer during WWDC who told me they still had some optimizations to do. I haven’t checked if they’ve done so in the just released developer seed of iPhone OS 3.1.

I submitted an update, Deep Green version 1.1.2, to Apple two weeks ago that tries to work around some of these issues when running on iPhone OS 3.0. It should be available soon, I hope.

Having said this, Deep Green is a CPU intensive app when the engine runs. But I never noticed any issues like this under iPhone OS 2.x.

Finally, which device are you using? The new iPhone 3GS has been said to run very hot.