LS Chess Blackberry
Matt Dreher
Here's hoping you guys can get something going for blackberry users, even if it is a static image of current game position (baby steps you know, something simple like that). I know the BB browser doesn't have ajax.
I also badly want a chess program for blackberry - ideally with strong AI and database and pgn file support. I don't have high hopes but I don't want to have to buy a pda so I just want the strongest game out there for blackberry.
What is confusing is whether software for mobiles actually works on the blackberry. Karlis it's interesting that you have ChessGenius running on a different mobile but can anyone who actually has one of the good programs running on their blackberry let us know what you have.
Try Medieval Kings Chess II. I wouldn't say that the engine is particularly strong (there are 6 levels), but the game has nice graphics and it works on Blackberries. You can also play people online, but little glitches here and there make it more annoying than enjoying. One other gripe I have is that there is no "flip board" feature, so if you play black, you'll be looking at your pieces from white's perspective.
I have Sumsung C5212. It supports java apps. It doesn't have internet and is not touchscreen.
But it is my second phone after my smartphone
Smartphones have become very affordable especially if you buy it with a certain plan in a certain telecommunication company. So even almost 100% schoolchildren now have smartphones It is in Russia. I don't know what is in other parts of the world.
I think Java can best fit for most non-smartphones, specially Nokia non-smartphones. I had and already have a Nokia phone which is Symbian but I use Java apps of chess.com for several years and it will work well but for a period of time that was unavailable. Now it's fine and I will use it whenever I'm in a road or in a place where there is no internet connection.
Also what i feel is the interface need to be more interactive and web page need to be more light.There is tremendous room of improvement in it.You need better developer ;) May creative Algorithm expert.
I don't know why you would bother supporting an app for "non-smart" phones, since it seems like at least 95% of people have smart phones. Within the next few years, I wouldn't be surprised if all non-smart phones are taken off the market completely.
... which I would turn around and buy in a heartbeat. I just don't think battery technology is there at this time. It's more of a thought experiment to determine the effect of the status quo bias on choices. Specifically, I have a watch right now, where the battery lasts maybe 2 years, and it works more or less 100% of the time. (It works well over 99.999% of the time.) Do I really want to trade that for a watch which is a little more capable but requires charging every couple of days, or every day? If the answer is no, then would I make the equivalent choice for my cellphone?
Personally, I think I would choose a phone which only needed to be charged once per year. But most of the rank and file would not, I suspect. Further, I think there is a large utility gain when you get to zero devices which need charging on a daily basis, but not as much before that.
I have a Firefox OS phone - Intex Cloud FX. The phone is so basic that I wouldn't consider it as a smartphone. However, it has some really cool features like context search that provides apps related to your search query. They call it the 'single window search'.
This Lemon Blackberry Chess Pie recipe is from a fun new cookbook Marbled, Swirled, and Layered by Irvin Lin. Irvin blogs at Eat the Love and this recipe is a streamlined version of the contest winning pie that received national attention.
I changed up the recipe slightly. I used my favorite pie crust instead of the whole wheat vodka crust Irvin used. There was also a little bit more filling than would fit in my pie plate, so I just refrigerated it and ate it with a little graham crackers crumbled on top.
Irvin adds a blackberry filling to the lemon, which adds a great contrasting color and the fun swirl to the top. All the recipes in the cookbook have creative flavor combinations and simple decorations that turn ordinary desserts in o stunning desserts.
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That said, I totally made it more complicated by deciding to put a decorative checkerboard pattern on top of the pie itself with blackberry curd. How did I do that you ask? Well I built a grid out of balsa wood placed the grid on the pie gently and then individually filled every other square and lifted the grid straight up from the pie so I could make even squares on top of the curd. Yes I am that insanely crazy. Talk about tedious. I probably would have been better off making a double crust pie. But oh well.
Please remember that even though I used four types of fat in my pie (leaf lard in the crust, butter in the crust and the filling, heavy cream in the filling and egg yolk in the filling) it has absolutely NO CALORIES and if you weigh more tomorrow, it because of the other pies you ate, not mine. Please everyone visit my blog where you can read the long epic journey of how I came to stand at this very spot, after suffering through trials and tribulations!
The blackberry curd makes more than enough for one pie and can be made ahead of time. Or you just use store-bought blackberry jam if you want to save some time. But I think the curd is pretty awesome. Save the rest of the curd and use it for toast or as a filling for a cake or drizzle it over the pie in place of the jumbleberry sauce. Speaking of the jumbleberry sauce, you can make the sauce in advance too. It keeps for a couple of days. The sauce, by the way, is awesome on pancakes and french toast.
4. In a double boiler, or a metal bowl placed over a barely simmering pot of water, add 3 egg yolks, the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar, 1 Tbsp of lemon juice, the arrowroot flour/tapioca starch and 1/2 cup of blackberry puree. Stir the mixture with a whisk until it thickens up to the consistency of thick pudding. Pour mixture into the food processor and process until smooth. Set aside to cool.
5. Once the pie crust has chilled, preheat the oven to 425 F. Roll out the pie dough for each pie tin you are using, making sure to use a generous amount of flour (the pie dough will be sticky so use as much flour as you want). Fit the dough into the pie tins and crimp the ends decoratively. Take a fork and prick the bottom of the pie dough several times evenly across the bottom of the pie tin. Line the pie dough with parchment paper or a coffee filter and fill with pie weights or rice or dry beans. Bake the pie dough by itself for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, and then carefully lift up the parchment paper/coffee filter filled with weights/rice/beans and bake the crust for another 5-7 minutes without anything on top of it. The pie crust should look a little dry and the edges just starting to turn golden. This process is called blind baking.
6. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 F. Cool the pie crust while you are making the filling. Cream the butter and sugar in a standing mixer until it looks light. Add the eggs one at time, beating between each addition. Add the milk and cream and mix until incorporated. The filling should look quite liquidy. Add the cornstarch, cornmeal, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla extract and mix until smooth. Spread a thin layer of the blackberry curd on the bottom of the prebaked pie crust (I used about 3 Tbsp of curd, but you might want more if you like it sweeter, or are using a deep dish pan). I wanted just a bare hint of the blackberry taste as a counterpoint to the tart lemon, but you might want more. Keep in mind the more blackberry curd you use, the sweeter the pie will be.
Congrats!!! That is so exciting! SF Food Wars events are so fun and completely crazy if you are competitor. I can only hope they do another baking themed compeition soon so I can enter again. I don't really have any salsa making skills ?
Thanks for the shout out for Team Gleeks! As Susan said, your pie was fantastic and they had a great look to them too. Great to read that we weren't the only ones with logistical horrors that weekend. ?
You absolutely deserved those wins! BIG congrats! I made so many mental comments to you as I read this, but now can't remember half of them. Except that it totally rocks that you built a balsa wood grid! Love it! (And again, lazy?? I think not.)
@Sara. Hmm. I don't think I look too much like the trophies. I am not shiny gold. Well, most of the time I'm not shiny gold. I do, on occasion, paint myself in gold leaf and walk to the tourist district and stand really still until someone put a coin in my metal tin, wherein I "wake up" and do a little jig.
@Susan & Phuong First off Susan, HOW could you NOT be a fan of pie and still compete? That's ABSURD! Secondly, of COURSE I would do a shout out to you guys! You're pie looked great (I'm actually bummed I didn't have a taste of it) and you guys get mad props for making it on the fly like that!
@Allison. I KNOW! I was so excited to compete (coupled with slightly hysterical)! I would love to compete again, but I'm afraid any competition I enter now would just be a disappointment (what? I only won the judge's first place and People's choice honorable mention? That's so disappointing!!!!). Better quit while I'm ahead.
@Tara. Heh. Well I ACTUALLY do think of myself as lazy, but I guess it's all relative. I mean I didn't sit there and peel 20 lbs of peaches or apples and I didn't weave double crust tops for 20 pies. So it's a relative laziness I guess.
@Karen. Ha! I still stand my original statement that the grid pattern is ridiculous, but I had it in my head that I needed to do it. I'm just pleased with the balsa wood idea! And double win. Ridiculous again! I'm actually still riding high on it!
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