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From: bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: chess on the si
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Date: 23 Apr 91 06:17:11 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.204757.22035@uservx.afwl.af.mil> hillman@uservx.afwl.af.mil writes:
>In article <1991Apr8.225439.15605@neon.Stanford.EDU>, jhsu@neon.Stanford.EDU (Jeffrey H. Hsu) writes:
>> Would someone please tell me of a viable chess program for the MacIIsi?
>> 
>> These don't work:	ChessMaster 2100 (display problems)
>> 			Sargon IV  (crashes)

My company just finished work on two Macintosh chess programs that *do* work
on the IIsi.  Here are one-line descriptions of each, to avoid making this
post into a commercial.

(1) Battle Chess is a 3-D animated chess program where the pieces walk around
    and beat each other up while playing a good chess game between two people,
    one person versus the computer, or over the modem.

(2) Checkmate is the best computer chess program available; it beat
    Chessmaster, Sargon, and AI Chess in our tests, and is for people who
    want a reeeeally good game of chess, with plenty of features to keep you
    happy.


Oh yeah, Battle Chess is black & white only for the Macintosh.  The 256-color
version will be a CD-ROM product.  Checkmate uses 256 colors or black & white.
Both are compatible with every Macintosh that exists today.  They were *just*
finaled and should be shipping presently.

bill

Disclaimer:  I work for Interplay Productions, which publishes both
Battle Chess and Checkmate.