Re: Chess programs for GS?

[NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
: Gary Wheeler wrote:
: > 
: > For Father's Day, I am trying to locate someplace where I can
: > buy/obtain/(steal?) a chess program for the AppleIIGS.  I'd like to give
: > to my Dad for Father's Day.
: > 
: > He has a used AppleIIGS that I bought for him a few years ago, which
: > came with (among other sundry items) a chess program designed for the
: > II.  However, being that it's not a GS-specific program, the lower
: > resolution and limited colors makes it difficult to distinguish the
: > pieces at times.
: > 
: > Does anyone know where I might be able to locate a suitable program?  I
: > searched through my old Apple magazines and the only GS-specific chess
: > game I could find was BattleChess. ....
: > 
: >

:      BattleChess is cute and worth having; but, it does not play very good 
: chess. Another problem with BC is that you cannot replay games with the 
: action graphics.

:      As far as I know, the most recent good GS chess playing program is 
: ChessMaster-- ChessMaster 2100 may have been the last for-GS version. 
: There is a good selection of displays, including a nice 3-D board display, 
: along with the options you expect in such a program (listing of moves 
: during play, replay, etc.).

:      At 'tournament speed' on an unaccelerated GS, CM2100 plays well 
: enough to beat most wood pushers, especially those who play 'book' 
: openings. 

A bit of old trivia from Nibble, April 1988:

"I set out to write the Great American Chess Program but none
of the assemblers could come close to holding that kind of
memory.  I was so new at programming that I didn't know that
you couldn't put an IBM mainframe-style assembler on an Apple
II.  So that's what I wrote.  To this day, I don't think any
of the other Apple II assemblers comes close to it in features.
In fact, I don't think any of the IBM assemblers comes close to
its features.  I still haven't written that chess program....."

Now, without looking it up, how many of you know who said that?

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