Cyberchess (1992 SoftDisk game)

Nothing makes me appreciate the free amenities of ChessDotCom like loading up “CyberChess”, setting the AI difficulty to six out of eight(?), and giving up on the computer’s third turn because it’s taken more than three minutes for it to settle on what to do. Lower AI seems to run fine, but the overall presentation is garish and unappealing, the futuristic aspects being used to justify an ugly color scheme and tinny bleeps and bloops. Slight credit due for warning of check and programming en passant into the game; not every chess title of its time could do that much.

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