Chess for Android on a Smartwatch

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A few days back I got a very kind email from Branko with some pictures of Chess for Android running on a Galaxy Gear smartwatch. I never tested a much smaller screen, and was glad the scalable drawing methods displayed the board rather well. Thanks Branko for these pictures and your nice email!


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Branko said…
You are very welcome ;)
November 30, 2013 at 4:33 PM
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