Xref: utzoo rec.games.chess:5161 rec.games.misc:11325 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:1832 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!woan!ron From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Chess program recommendation wanted (for IBM) Keywords: GNU Chess pretty good Message-ID: <3587@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 90 22:27:22 GMT References: <1399@pedsga.UUCP> <6302@hub.ucsb.edu> <1248@ashton.UUCP> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: woan@peyote.cactus.org Followup-To: rec.games.chess Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks Lines: 28 In article <1248@ashton.UUCP>, tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) writes: >In article <1399@pedsga.UUCP> mikes@pedsga.UUCP (Mike Shulman ) writes: >> I am looking to buy a good chess program for my IBM PC. The 2 I am >>currently considering are Chessmaster 2100 and Sargon IV. If >>anybody can recommend one over the other, or knows of a program >>which is better then those two, please let me know. >> Thanks in advance! Tom> If you insist on _buying_ one, go ahead. However, why not give Tom> the recent DOS port of GNUCHESS at try? Sure, its character Tom> based interface is simplistic, but you also get full C source Tom> code. I'd like to second the recommendation to try GNU Chess.. It isn't as slick as the two commercial products mentioned because it lacks features like historical replay and stuff, but it is basically as strong from reports in gnu.chess... I own Sargon 3 and Chessmaster 2100 and find that both are good for teaching tools, but GNU Chess for MS Win 3.0 (on cica.cica.indiana.edu in pub/pc/win3/games?) is the one I play the most these days while downloading files or reading news... Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan@austin.iinus1.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +