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| Submitted on: 11/30/2000 8:09:19 AM
By: Niall Mooney
Level: Advanced
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By 18 Users
Compatibility:VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 13159 times.
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| | | ChessMASTER version 1 is a fully fuctional internet chess game. Offline you can play two player or the in-built artifiscal inteligence engine. The chess pieces are drawn with a variable translucency, including transparent backgrounds. Online you can chat and send popup messages in the Game or using the ChessMaster website. You can save the board at any time and reload it to view (& theorize) or to play the computer on. Three boards are included (one 'borrowed' from RJSoftChess) and are saved as resources.
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11/30/2000 4:16:33 PM:RJ Soft of West Tennessee
I analyzed your chess game and found
that it needs more work. Here are my
results:
1. Does not check
correctly for Checks. I had a Bishop
inline with the King and it did not see
the check. It moved another piece
instead of getting the King out of
check.
2. Your colors are very dark.
The pieces look to faded. It's hard
to tell Black from white or in this
case red. The pieces should be
pronounced and detailed, not faded.
3.
So nice of you to let people know I
designed the alternative board graphic.
To bad you did not include that little
piece of info in the About
screen...
4. ChessMaster is a Trade
Mark of Mindscape Inc. You really
should change the name.
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11/30/2000 4:19:25 PM:RJ Soft of West Tennessee
I gave you 5 globes for this great
effort. I know how hard it is to
program a chess game:) Mine still
needs work too...
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12/2/2000 1:22:38 PM:Jason Foral
Good code! You are a very excellent
programmer.
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12/2/2000 2:03:09 PM:RJ Soft of West Tennessee
Maybe you did not understand the issue
on the name. Mindscape, Inc owns the
name Chessmaster. If you insist on
using it, they have the right to sue
you and since theirs is a chess game
and so is yours, they would
win.
Infringement on a trademark is
not a wise thing to do since they have
a lot more money than you do and it's
wrong to do it...but if you add
something to the name like "Chessmaster
Mark 7" then they may have anything to
grip about.
Also, it's a little
confusing when you refer to Chessmaster
since I have Chessmaster 6000.
Sometimes I don't know if you're
talking about your game or theirs...
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12/2/2000 6:30:19 PM:Billy Conner
I doubt they would actually sue the
author for putting that name unless
he/she intended to sell the product. I
would just change the name to
Chess-Master or something simular.
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12/5/2000 4:43:28 PM:Niall Mooney
Thank you for your comments & votes
people. My Chess games' trademark name
is technicaly ChessMASTER Mk.II any
way. So Mindscape can kiss my beautiful
game title. ChessMASTER coming soon
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12/17/2000 9:31:41 AM:SqueakMac
Hmm, it does need a little more work, I
had the king in check, and it didn't
reconize it so I killed the
king...doesn't work that way. I'll give
you a 4.
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12/26/2000 6:35:34 AM:McGoat
There is an error in the game...
Ive
beat the computer in offline mode, and
when I said Play again then king on his
side were missing... BIG MISTAKE
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1/2/2001 1:04:39 PM:Smarty Brainy
How come when i downloaded the file
there was nothing in it!!!???
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1/6/2001 7:27:19 AM:Tryke
...i think this is a neat game but
really need improvement to compete with
other chess games around... at least,
its free...
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1/6/2001 7:31:19 AM:tryke
this is a nice program, although it
needs improvement...
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1/6/2001 9:41:30 PM:Eisen Teo
Whoever actually cares to program chess
AI? Congrats pal, you deserve a good
pat on the back.
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12/24/2001 12:15:43 AM:Danny
UUUuuuugggggghhhh..... it's
alright..... perhaps more of a 2 player
thingy though cause it's not a very
intelligent opponent(playing the puter)
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6/27/2002 3:22:18 PM:Coding Genius
1: It cannot check, the way to win is
not take the king but get it in
checkmate
2: It cannot castle
3: You
should get a choice of pieces if your
pawn reaches the other side of the
board
4: This rule is too hard to
explain, but its the one that stops
every pawn moving 2 on the first
time.
All these rules are missing,
fix that and it'll be chess. Then it'll
be perfect. :)
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10/26/2002 9:21:33 PM:
I have found that this code has some
bugs, because I'm struggling to make it
even run. MSWINSCK.OCX cant be loaded,
ChessM.log, as well as with
ChessMClient.log. After all the
problems the program just wouldn't
run!!!
Please fix, because i want
to see a good example of a chess
program.
Yours Vanslly
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