- Platform: Windows Vista / NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / 3.1 / XP / 95
- Media: CD-ROM
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Product Features
- Superb crafted piece sets.
- Easy installation.
- Beautifully rendered and fully scalable piece sets.
- Multiple perspectives including overhead view.
- Custom user interface.
- 6 classic board and piece sets.
- Open and play in any number of windows.
- Five levels of difficulty.
- VCR-like replay controls accompany all player/piece actions.
- Ability to print the list of moves from a current game.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Quick to set up, easy to navigate and beautifully rendered, Corel Chess aims to give chess lovers and novices alike a real chess experience--without a physical chess set. In its place, Corel Chess provides 2-D and 3-D virtual chessboards. Players can choose between different styles (e.g., wood or glass pieces), each of which comes with its own backdrop and sometimes irritating (but easily turned off) soundtrack. Players can keep a number of windows open at the same time, showing the chess board at different angles and sizes, in 2-D and 3-D. There is a moves list, a record of captured pieces, and/or games clocks. Players can play through the animated history of a finished game or switch sides easily.
There are several ways to play a game. Single players can play against the computer. The computer's skill level can be set at various levels--novice, weak, moderate, intermediate, expert, and there's a custom option, which allows players to set search depth (the number of moves ahead the computer is allowed to plan a move and calculate every possible move you could make in response) from 1 to 48, and capture aggressiveness (which measures how aggressively the engine chooses a capturing move over an equally effective non-capturing move) from 2 to 12. Two players can play against each other on one computer. Alternatively, players on different computers can play via a telephone network, LAN or the Internet (via Winsock). The setup documentation is good.
For beginners, the help files include chess rules, and there are in-play hints available. More advanced players wishing to improve their skills may wish to import a PGN (Portable Game Notation) game. Portable Game Notation is a standard way of describing chess games in a computer-readable format. A number of files with PGN notation are included in Corel Chess, and others are available on the Internet and can be imported. The included PGN games range from the mid-1800s to the 1990s. While the program doesn't allow users to play against the masters, it does allow users to scrutinize the games in live-motion, pause and fast-forward through thousands of championship chess games. In a world where PCs are more common than chess-boards, Corel Chess renders the history and experience of this complex game vividly. Kasparov wannabes take note. --Kathleen Keefe
Manufacturer's Description
Great interactive play, dynamic views and sizzling graphics combined with exquisite 3D modelled and rotatable boards produce a truly awe-inspiring multimedia chess game. Play the computer, have the computer play against itself or alternatively stage your own championship with opponents over the Internet, via a modem or over a network.
In true 24-bit colour with multiple chess sets and elaborately rendered game settings, the customisable user interface enables you to display any number of open windows or views of the chessboard, at the same time, at any angle and scaled to any size.
Gain an interesting insight into the minds of the Grand Masters as you view and study over 4,000 championship chess games or import other classic games (PGN format only). With a variety of user options, levels of difficulty and amazing visual and sound effects, there's never a dull moment.
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