Re: Chess Program -Do you know a good one?

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From: Curt Stevens
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 1990 18:08

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In article <22550@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> rsvp@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (R. Scott V. Paterson) writes:
>I once saw a chess game for an IBM PC that actually had the
>chess pieces move by animation.  The pieces would actually
>battle with one another.  This is chess, so you always know
>which piece will kill another, but it's fun to watch two
>pawns going at it or a queen vaporizing a bishop...

A friend of mine has this. It is called "Battle Chess" and it is quite
entertaining. Of course it takes longer to make a move since you have to
wait for the animation to play. As far as I know there is nothing like
this for the mac :-<

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Subject: Re: Chess Program -Do you know a good one?
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