Fritz Mobile in the test phase
Like to watch the games that are being played in Khanty-Mansiysk
on your cellphone? While you are travelling in a train, sitting in your garden,
or lying in the soapy foam of a winter evening bath? Or would you like to play
a game on your cellphone, against someone who is probably thousands of miles
away from you?
All this is now within your reach. All you need is a cellphone,
one of the newer kind, which has GPRS and Java installed (they all do). Dial
into a special site, http://fritzmobile.com/wap, and download the software
that is provided there. All of this will probably take five minutes to do. After
that all systems are go for Fritz Mobile.
Full instructions for the download and installation are provided
at our special site: Fritzmobile.com.
But you probably will not have to bother with them at all, since all modern
cellphones are properly equipped by default. Simply dial in, download and start
Fritz Mobile. Chances are it will work without further ado.
Access to the Playchess server is handled by GPRS, which stands
for "General Packet Radio Service". This is a "packet-switched"
service, which means that many users share the same transmission channel, only
using it when they need to send data. The advantage is that they get the full
bandwidth for each transaction (and none when they don't require it). In addition
GPRS transmission is billed per kilobytes of information sent or received, not
on a per minute basis. Thus when you are playing a game of chess you will only
be billed for the move transmission, not the entire time you are engaged in
playing or watching the game.
Access to Playchess
This is very simple and intuitive. You can log in as a "Guest"
or use your current Playchess account. Type in your user name and password.
This will not affect your normal access to Playchess from a PC with Fritz.
There is a help function which explains all the functions
that are available for your Mobile Fritz access to the Playchess server.
Feedback
We have set up a special feedback
form which you can use to tell us whether your cellphone access
to Playchess was successful or not. In the latter case please be very specific
and tell us exactly where things went wrong. You should also specify exactly
which cellphone and service provider you are using, and of course which country
you are in. We are also interested in suggestions for improvement and additional
features. We cannot, however, at the current stage provide any guarantee that
the software will work on your cellphone.
