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Subject: Re: Question about Battle Chess

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 12:24:34 04/30/02

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On April 30, 2002 at 15:10:08, John Merlino wrote:

>On April 30, 2002 at 11:23:53, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>Since People out there seem to like older programs for aesthetic reasons, I've
>>decided to mention Battle Chess for Nintendo and ChessMaster for Game
>>Gear/GameBoy. I don't know how these compare to their PC counterparts other than
>>the obvious Speed Gap but maybe someone can shed some light on what versions are
>>they. Is ChessMaster for Gameboy the same as chessmaster 2000 or some other
>>chessmaster? What about the gamegear chessmaster which came out much much
>>earlier? What of Battle Chess? It seems to take around 2-3 minutes on level 4
>>and while it is no match for Fritz, it does appear to be making 3ply searches. I
>>figure this because the errors in games i played against it, and that fritz 7
>>set to fixed depth starts to disagree alot from 3ply and up.
>
>I'm not sure which engine is in the Chessmaster GB version (the manual does not
>say and I don't have a GB to test it on), but I would guess that, even on the
>strongest (i.e. the longest) setting, it doesn't play much above 1600, if at
>all.
>
>jm

IMHO, CM for gameboy would be absolutely great, unfortunately you should go
through a painful setup before playing (that cannot easily saved). That kills
the whole purpose for kids... like me :-)

painful for kids that they do not know exactly what to choose.

Regards,
Miguel



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