Chess?

[Solaris]

Who else plays this fantastic game?
I've got wonderful chess memories. I've always liked it, played it in Primary School and always won, then I went on a student exchange to Spain, and the Father of the person I exchanged with played very good chess, and smoked a big fat cigar and kept a colt 45 and a Tompson as memory of the civil war. Anyway, I've recently got back into it after bying the 'Grandmaster' Chess game on my mobile phone, it's great fun and has like 20 classic games, each with lots of writing at the beginning and after some important moves, very intresting. I actually laughed after watching one very famous game.

It's great, if anyone else is a fan I'd love to give them a game sometime:

Maybe if anyone else is a fan we can discuss opening and stratergies, or else just talk about how cigars and guns are cool.

 

[oldagerocker]

I enjoyed playing chess on Steam friends, i hope they bring it back. And i used to play it during breaks in school, its a good game, really tests your thinking.

 

[Venmoch]

Battlechess > *

 

[VirusType2]

Chess seems cool but I never learned it.

Archon was the only video game I loved that sort of resembled chess.

I will die happy if I get to play a 2006+ version of it (it was like a 1983 game) If I ever get good enough at programing I'll make a clone of this game with modern 3D graphics and gameplay


This game was fun as ****. The cool thing about it was that you actually fight. To attack you move your piece to a square occupied by the opposing team. The two pieces would be taken to an arena to fight to the death for ownership of that square.


I can just imagine a modern version with cutting-edge 3D graphics.


Some pieces are really fast and can move many spaces but had low health, some - like the pawns - have no projectile and have to use a sword or club (light or dark side respectively), etc. There were many different aspects to each piece.

its awesome. I liked the shapeshifter on the darkside.

Every turn the board cycled from night to day, and for example, standing on the dark square if you were playing the dark side would give you much more health, so it was very strategic, not just twitch gaming. The trick was to catch a powerful piece standing on the wrong side's colored square - to even the odds.

Each side had a powerful piece that could do things like reverse the cycle of day/night, summon an elemental that you could use to fight, and other things.


Screenshot:
1980 version emulated on a mac: http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/Images/Screenshots_OSX/Archon.png

The Banshee was ****ing awesome. I prefered the dark side pieces but I was a master at either side.


Im glad you reminded me of this game.

Battlechess came out later, but I didn't have a PC and my Atari PC was no longer supported. Was Battlechess anything like this?

 

[Adabiviak]

I play just enough to know how. My dad is a total online chess hustler - it's pretty funny.