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From: tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chess for amiga
Summary: Checkmate multitasks, BUT...
Message-ID: <10205@lanl.gov>
Date: 3 Jan 91 15:52:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan2.204928.4525@world.std.com>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <1991Jan2.204928.4525@world.std.com>, levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder) writes:
> Soliciting opinions on most amiga-friendly chess game.  I saw something
> in a store called "Checkmate" that looked good, but couldn't tell
> if it was multitasking.  
> The only things that are important in a chess game, to me are:
> * Never crashes
> * Has a chess clock
> * Multitasks
> In particular, I don't care if it's not the best player in pc-dom - 
> I'm lousy myself.
> 
> Anything out there that meets those criteria?

Checkmate is a very nice program...It is strong even at short times,
has a wide range of strength levels, a large, user-programmable book 
and lots of features.  Digital Clocks for both players.  
I like it a lot.  It multitasks just fine if you
startup from the workbenck and THEN run the program from the CLI.  If
you run from an icon...no multitaking.  Also, You can pull down the
screen to get back to workbench ala VLT.  However, If you pull it 
down all the way, you can't get it back!  It won't pull back up!
This must be a bug.  Also, the pieces in 3-d mode are very hard
to use (distracting) except for Staunton and Futura modes.  On the
other hand, my daughter Loved the "playroom" set.  

BTW this program claims to have easily beaten Chessmaster 2000 and 
Colossus on equivalent machines.
.