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From: 2fmlempire@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Re: Which is the best chess game?
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.124831.29593@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 17:48:31 GMT
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In article <50224@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Rasiel) writes:
> Does anyone out there play chess? I'm thinking of buying a chess game and
> have narrowed the options down to Checkmate and Chessmaster 2100. If anyone
> can sway me to one game or the other I'd appreciate it. I currently have
> Battlechess and though it is cute it is also very tough and has few options;
> it's as if most of the effort went into the animations (which get boresome
> quickly) rather than the gameplay.
> Rasiel

Well, from what I've read, Checkmate is for the both the novice and *serious*
Chess players.  One of its main features that caught my interest is that 
the game learns from its own mistakes each time you play it.  It also 
watches your strategies and incorporates them into its own playing ability
(making him a tougher opponent since he can recognize your strategies.)

It also comes with a set of "chess problems" that will gauge your chess
level abilities (the one they use for master chess players, can't 
remember what it was called though.)

David Poland
2fmlempire@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu