Well Sort Of hehe
I was messing around with old video games and saw my Chessmaster for Playstation 1.
Being a sentimental old fool, I had to see if my old menace could still give me the beating it used to so frequently years ago.
Who but a chess geek would go to the trouble of buying a video game that just plays chess? 🙂
I took the white pieces and actually used a real board and pieces.
This is the highest level of this particular version, and I had it set on computer matches human time (a slight handicap for sure).
I took around 15 minutes for the entire game.
Even so, it is one pretty amazing game (full of mistakes).
I began kicking myself after 33.Qh5 ??. I felt as though 33.Rxg6+ wasn't correct for some reason. I think 33.Nh4 worked.
51.cxd3 was better too.
This was a really fun and super comlicated game.
The funny thing is it took 15 minutes to play and could take weeks to analyze properly. I really wouldn't want to annotate this one.
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsWait... Playstation 1?!?
Well Sort Of hehe
I was messing around with old video games and saw my Chessmaster for Playstation 1.
Being a sentimental old fool, I had to see if my old menace could still give me the beating it used to so frequently years ago.
Who but a chess geek would go to the trouble of buying a video game that just plays chess? 🙂
I took th ...[text shortened]... ld take weeks to analyze properly. I really wouldn't want to annotate this one.
Originally posted by moteutschYeah, I'm an old timer.
Wait... Playstation 1?!?
I played (my brothers) Atari , Nintendo (1), Game Boy (1),Sega Genesis,Super Nes,Sega Game Gear,Atari Linx,Playstation 1,Sega Saturn,Nintendo 64,and years later Playstations 2 and 3.
We used to have a real Pinball machine and Pac Man machine too !
I was quite the video gamer.
I also had Chessmaster for the playstation 1. If I remember correctly they released a few versions for that console. Believe it or not Chessmaster was probably the best chess program for playstation. I had one called Kasparov Chess and it was truly awful. It didn’t have a opening book and fell for mate in 1 even at the highest settings.
Speaking of old chess programs, I gotta download an emulator so I can play the Spectrum version of Battlechess. 😀