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Astraware Ltd has released Rook's Revenge ($14.95) for Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld computers.

The company said Rook's Revenge is a raucous, real-time chess game that is more about being a fast thinker and mover than a grand master. While the game features a standard checkered board and chess pieces - all moving according to traditional chess rules - and the objective is to kill the opponent's king, this is where the similarities cease. Instead of taking turns at moving their pieces, the players can move them as soon and as often as they like.

Astraware claims Rook's Revenge for Palm OS is the first game to fully take advantage of the high resolution screens and enhanced audio offered by the latest Sony Clie handhelds, with a special version using high quality 3D-rendered graphics and sampled wave audio. A version is also available which will run in grayscale or color supporting the vast majority of Palm OS devices available running Palm OS 3.0 or later.

Astraware is also releasing a version of Rook's Revenge for Pocket PC users. The Pocket PC version is designed to leverage the technologies of ARM, MIPS and SH3 machines, 16 bit color graphics, and high quality audio.

Astraware is also releasing four more games for Palm OS: