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From: laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Macintosh Battle Chess & Macintosh Checkmate
Message-ID: <1991May01.122516.15567@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 May 91 12:25:16 GMT
References: <281CE90A.21385@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <281CE90A.21385@orion.oac.uci.edu> bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan) writes:
>Interplay Productions introduces two new chess games for the Macintosh!
>
>"Battle Chess" features animated pieces who walk around the board and beat up
>each other as you play chess.  
>[...]
>Battle Chess costs $49.95 and you can buy it from any computer store or
>direct from Interplay at 1-800-969-GAME.

Well, since we have an advertisement here, and I played Battle Chess on
my brother-in-laws 33MHz PClone over the weekend for lack of anything better
to do, let me ask

is it as dog slow? and does it play as badly?

Bear in mind, I am not exactly a slouch at chess.
>
>"Checkmate" features the best chess algorithm available on a personal
>computer.  In our tests, Checkmate beats Chessmaster 2100, Sargon IV, and
>AI Chess.  

How about some impartially conducted tests?  What are the time controls?

And finally,

Is it as copy-protected (even asking for a move from a manual's digest
is copy protection)?

I don't know about getting advertisements here, although when they are as
blatantly one-sided as this one they are scarcely likely to mislead anyone,
and I do like hearing about chess programs.  Sargon III worked on my first
Macintosh but not on my new ones, and it may be time to either buy a new
game or think about porting GNU Chess.
-- 
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