Author: Elizabeth Schwartz
Date: 21:15:51 11/15/01
If I'm the only person here interested in beginner software, stop me. (maybe it would be interesting to have a separate beginner forum here?) Anyway, Chess Advantage II has five programs: Chessmaster 6000 Milton Bradley Chess Dr Shiller's Chess Championship Chess Extreme Chess As expected, the first two didn't run under WIndows 2000. The other three did. Of the three Extreme Chess was probably the most interesting, except that it can only be "dumbed down" to a 1400 estimated rating. At that strength, it wiped me across the table. I am looking forward to trying it again when I get better! This game is based on some version of the Fritz engine. Dr Shiller's Chess had a nice simple interface and four opponents. It has a view window where it evaluates the position and kibitzes a little. This was somewhat valuable for me, just to see what move made it jump from "neutral position" to "computer has clear advantage". Unfortunately, I never got more than four moves into a game that way! Championship chess had a nice set of controls for opponents, and I would probably use it the most, EXCEPT that the interface is unbelievably ugly and hard to look at! It had only one "2D" board, and that board was very hard on the eyes. It might be something to use in conjunction with Winboard. At any rate, it's an interesting set of games to play with. Sometime in the next few days I will see if CM 6000 works under VMware. I don't have any hopes at all for Milton Bradley chess as a game.
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