Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:54:35 08/05/00
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On August 05, 2000 at 18:30:46, Larrry Smith wrote: >Yesterday I rented a Nintendo 64 game called "Virtual Chess 64." (...) In 1999, I reviewed this N64 cartridge for the CSS magazine (no. 4/99). You're lucky that you have rented it, and not bought... While it's visually similar to Virtual Chess, it is by far not as good as this french top program, which was 2nd in the Micro WCh in Paris 1997. The N64 version doesn't seem to make much use of the 94 MHz risc CPU: In 6 test positions, most of which are solved by the PC versions of Virtual within a few seconds, Virtual 64 couldn't find the solutions at tournament setting within 3...7 minutes. Furthermore, it lost each test game against progs like ExChess, Doctor? etc. Maybe the small tutorial is the best part of it. In the following example game, Virtual 64 had 30 min. for the game, and CSTal II had 8:30 at a PII/333 MHz: CSTal2 P2_333 - Virtual64 Nintendo [C89] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 15.Be3 Re8 16.Bxd5 cxd5 17.Qf3 Bb7 18.Nd2 Rac8 19.Bf4 Be7 20.Re5 a5 21.Qe2 Qd7 22.Re1 Kf8 23.Qh5 Kg8 24.Nf1 b4 25.Qe2 Kf8 26.Qd3 bxc3 27.Qxh7 f6 28.Bh6 Qg4? [28...gxh6 29.Qxh6+ Kf7 30.Qh7+ Kf8 31.R1e3 Rc6+- (31...fxe5? # in 3) ] 29.Ne3 Qg6 [29...fxe5 30.Nxg4 gxh6? # in 2] 30.Qxg6 gxh6 31.Nf5 Red8 32.Rxe7 cxb2 33.Rf7# 1-0 Regards, M.Scheidl
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