![]() ![]() ![]() This means they often obscure other pieces that are in front of them completely, making it impossible to see what is going on. Speaking of which, this option must be the dumbest option I’ve seen in a chess game – if you want to play with a computer that makes mistakes, you might as well not play chess, because it really is an insult to your intelligence (well, to mine anyway )).Īnother big problem is that the game’s animated pieces, while very nice to watch, are a tad too big. I don’t consider myself a good chess player by any means (I often lose in the easier levels of Chessmaster, perhaps the penultimate “computer chess for the mass.” Yet I can beat the computer player in Combat Chess regularly, even with the “computer makes mistakes” option turned off. ![]() More important is the cumbersome user interface (which, among other things, require a few rapid clicks to undo a computer’s move before it quickly moves again) and the woefully weak chess engine. Similar to other animated-chess-piece games, it takes some time to memorize which chess piece is which, although that is not a major concern. The 3D-rendered animated pieces are fun to watch, and the fantasy theme is evoked quite well with dragons and knights on the battlefield. Combat Chess by Empire Interactive is a decent clone of Interplay’s venerable classic Battle Chess that is long on glitz but short on computer intelligence – the most important aspect of a computer chess game. ![]()
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