{"id":2191,"date":"2008-12-16T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2008-12-16T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:28:04","slug":"play-chess-on-the-mobile-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/2191\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Chess on the Mobile Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caramba Chess\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/chess.jpg\" alt=\"Caramba Chess\" width=\"181\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I just discovered a nice mobile site that lets you play computer chess on just about any phone with a mobile browser.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called Caramba! and the URL is\u00a0<a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mountmobile.com\/\">m.mountmobile.com<\/a>. When you vist the site it displays a chessboard and prompts you for your move. \u00a0Moves are entered using a simplfied form of chess notation\u00a0\u00a0where you specify the <em>from: file and row<\/em> followed by the <em>to: file and row<\/em>. \u00a0For example &#8220;c2c4&#8221; means move the piece on file c, row 2 to file c, row 4. \u00a0The files and rows are labeled on the screen and the site won&#8217;t let you make an invalid move.<\/p>\n<p>There are four skill levels to choose from; Beginner, Intermediate, Experienced and Grandmaster.<\/p>\n<p>You can save an unfinished game by bookmarking the page, the URL contains a session ID so that when you return to the bookmarked page the board reloads just as you left it.<\/p>\n<p>Caramba! responded very quickly to moves and consistently trounced me at the beginner level; which isn&#8217;t surprising since I haven&#8217;t played chess since my college days. \u00a0Any chess wizards among my readers who want to try Caramba! \u00a0and give an opinion? <em>Source:<\/em> <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.tappity.com\/tappity\/browse\">Tappity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Filed in<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/index.php?id=1621\">Wap Review Directory-\u00a0Entertainment\/Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\"><em>Ratings:<\/em> Content:\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-starOL.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/> Usability:\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-starOL.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a><span>Mobile Link<\/span>: <\/a><a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mountmobile.com\/\">m.mountmobile.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ready.mobi\/results.jsp?uri=http:\/\/m.mountmobile.com&amp;locale=en_EN\">Ready.mobi <\/a>score:<\/em> 3.49 (good)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a nice mobile site that lets you play computer chess on just about any phone with a mobile browser. It&#8217;s called Caramba! and the URL is\u00a0m.mountmobile.com. When you vist the site it displays a chessboard and prompts you for your move. \u00a0Moves are entered using a simplfied form of chess notation\u00a0\u00a0where you specify the from: file and row followed by the to: file and row. \u00a0For example &#8220;c2c4&#8221; means move the piece on file c, row 2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/2191\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[148,511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}