Chess

31.12.1992
An early computer iteration of Chess for Windows, released as part of Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4.

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Microsoft Entertainment Pack (last 3 games)

30.05.2001

A trimmed-down port of "The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack" for PC, including the following titles: - FreeCell - LifeGenesis - Minesweeper - SkiFree - TicTactics - TriPeaks - Tut's Tomb

01.08.2000

A Game Boy version of the Windows puzzle suite of the same name, featuring 6 of the 10 games released on PC, designed by Alexey Pajitnov, the original Tetris designer, on one Gameboy Color cartridge. Jewel Chase. A level based game. Every level consists of a labyrinth of colored pathways, scattered valuables, locked doors, keys, a thief (the player), on some levels an opposing thief and a door marked exit. The goal is to reach the exit to proceed to the next level, valuables can be 'stolen' for score. If the opposing (computer controlled) thief reaches the exit before the player, the game is lost. Movement is not possible between differently colored tiles, unless a special, multicolor 'bridge' stone is used. 99 levels total. Spring weekend. A rotation puzzle, where a given pattern needs to be recreated by rotating elements on the playfield. Lineup. Using 'Tetris' style blocks, a continuous line from a screen border to an opposite screen border needs to be build. Elements appear on an element stack, and can be selected freely from that and subsequently placed anywhere on screen, without overlapping each other. If the element stack is full, the game is over. As soon as a line is complete, the elements of that line are removed from the screen. Elements appear faster over time. Finty Flush. A grid on top of the screen fills slowly with multicolor balls. The player can pick one out of 4 squares on the bottom of the screen to shift balls in one line into and out of these squares. The squares can be rotated in 90 degree steps. As soon as any square is completely full with balls of the same color, its content empties to make room for more balls. 3 filled square grids grant a bonus point, and the next level begins (tiles appear faster). The game is over when the upper grid is full. Color Collision. A 'Qix' style ray ( no better way to describe this - for the younger audience - imagine a flapping fan ) moves with increasing speed through a screen full of obstacles. The player can only indirectly control it - any time the direction pad is pressed, it gets 'reflected' into the direction that has been indicated. Objective is to hit obstacles with a given color and pattern, avoiding all other elements. To top things of, the patterns change over time. The game ends if the wrong obstacles have been hit too many times. Rat Poker. Little differently colored rats are automatically fed into labyrinths, with labyrinth design changing and getting more complex during level progression. Switches allow rerouting of the rats to arrange certain color combinations ('hands') of rats. If a given combination is achieved, the contributing rats exit the playfield through a door. You progress to the next level if a given number of rats has been removed from the game. The game ends if there is no space left on the playfield for additional rats. .

31.12.1997

The Microsoft Entertainment Pack was a pack of simple casual games released in 1990. At the time it was one of the first Windows only PC games on the market. Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection features ten new puzzle games, designed by Alexei Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. The puzzle games are: - Fringer - Finty Flush - Mixed Genetics - Rat Poker - Lineup - Jewel Chase - Color Collision - Charmer - Spring Weekend - Muddled Casino

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01.01.1970

A Spanish language chess game.

01.01.1970

An online board game published by Berkeley Systems in which a group of players race to the top of the ziggurat, their number of steps each turn determined by the popularity of their answer to an opinion-based poll question, and the traps and bonuses set on each step of the ziggurat.

18.04.2009

1500DS Spirits Vol. 7: Chess is a Japanese Chess game for the Nintendo DS.

01.01.1970

Silver Star tries its hand at a western board game.

20.08.1998

01.01.1970

Turochamp is a chess program developed by Alan Turing and David Champernowne in 1948. It was created as part of research by the pair into computer science and machine learning. Turochamp is capable of playing an entire chess game against a human player at a low level of play by calculating all potential moves and all potential player moves in response, as well as some further moves it deems considerable. It then assigns point values to each game state, and selects the move resulting in the highest point value. Turochamp is the earliest known computer game to enter development, but was never completed by Turing and Champernowne, as its algorithm was too complex to be run by the early computers of the time such as the Automatic Computing Engine.

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31.12.2008

A Chess game released in the Digital ez LG bundle, being one of the two original games in it.

29.12.2009

Become a chess master! Train and master the game of chess with the greatest of ease on your Nintendo DS with Learn Chess. Learn the rules, tactics and strategies of Chess through different exercises. All the game modes are accessible right from the start allowing experienced players to test their skills immediately.

11.09.2011