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Submitted on: 11/30/2000 8:09:19 AM
By: Niall Mooney  
Level: Advanced
User Rating: By 18 Users
Compatibility:VB 6.0

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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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