Whatever Happened To Power Chess?
Thursday, 15th May 2008
Image via WikipediaChess… the mere word might invoke disdain in most people.
“What a boring game!”
“Only old people play it in parks!”
Yeah yeah. Chess is one of the first games that got me in contact with COMPUTERS, because back in the early 70’s, my dad would buy some “Chess computers” and play against them (as an aside, my dad was the National Champion like for 6 or 8 years running back in the 60’s) since there was nobody around who could pose a challenge to him, let alone beat him.
And us kids, well we do pretty well in chess for ourselves. That is beside the point though. The point is, although I might not be as passionate about Chess as my dad was, I still like an ocassional game now and again.
Back in the mid to late 1990’s, Sierra online made a chess game called Power Chess. To me, it was one of the best, if not the ultimate chess game ever produced. Unfortunately, Sierra didn’t update it past PowerChess 98, and it died a natural death. However, I never forgot why I loved it, and even up to today, I keep hoping to find something similar.
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