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Subject: Re: Virtual Chess II

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 10:51:09 12/09/00

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On December 09, 2000 at 04:34:07, Mike S. wrote:

>There was also a windows version before VC II, called "Virtual Chess" (for
>Windows), which was much better than the DOS (Virtua) version.

Yes, I totally forgot,you are absolutely right, it hit the stores quite quickly
after the DOS version I remember. My version is V 1.04 and is indeed from 1995.

The program leans heavily on the graphics, the animations (also under DOS) were
quite impressive. In the meantime they created a strong chess engine most people
overlooked. A bit like the Power Chess engines.

They should have taken more time running it stable and without some ugly
Interface bugs. The 3D-board in VCII is one of those examples. Beautiful yet
"virtally" unplayable. Too bad.

Jeroen ;-}



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