Grandmaster Chess

Grandmaster Chess
CD Cover art
Developer(s) IntraCorp
Publisher(s) Capstone Software
Platform(s) DOS, Macintosh
Release 1992
1993 (CD)
Genre(s) Chess
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer

Grandmaster Chess is a 1992 video game to play chess for PC DOS platform develop by IntraCorp and its subsidiary Capstone that was focused on neural network technology and an artificial intelligence (AI) able to learn from mistakes.[1]

Capable of using VGA and SVGA modes, features multiple skill levels, different sets of pieces, boards and backgrounds, 2D/3D view, pull-down menus, move list with VCR style control, able to analysis moves and games and rate the user strength. Originally it was distributed in floppy discs, but in 1993 in appeared in CD-ROM. This release only relevant addition was the Terminator 2: Judgement Day: Chess Wars package, an animated chess set like Battle Chess video game representing the Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie.[2]

Reception

Computer Gaming World stated that Grandmaster Chess "falls short of the current competition in terms of overall options". The magazine criticized the game's weak strategic analysis reporting, the absence of an advertised teaching mode, and weak opening book.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Grandmaster Chess from Home of the Underdogs. Retrieved on September 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ Grandmaster Chess (CD-ROM Edition) for DOS (1993) from MobyGames. Retrieved on September 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Carter, Tim (November 1992). "Capstone's Grandmaster Chess". Computer Gaming World. p. 88. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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