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Chessmaster 5500
''Chessmaster 5000'' is a 1996 chess video game developed and published by Mindscape for Windows. It is part of the ''Chessmaster'' series. An upgraded version, ''Chessmaster 5500'', was released in 1997. An online game, ''Chessmaster Live'', was included with ''5500''. The chess engine was designed by Tasc ChessSystem. Gameplay ''Chessmaster 5000'' uses a 32-bit chess engine and can be optimized for stronger play if used with a Pentium chip. The computer opponent can adopt over 70 different styles of famous grandmasters. The player can also design their own style for the computer. The multiplayer supports hotseat, network, and online play. Included with the game are 20 tutorials and a 27,000-game chess database. ''Chessmaster 5500'' added voice instruction to the game. Included with the purchase of ''5500'' was a copy and free subscription to ''Chessmaster Live'', an online game that was also available separately on the chessmaster.com website. Reception ''Chessmaster 5000' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Hare
Will T Hare (March 30, 1916 – August 31, 1997) was an American actor who appeared on television and films, often playing elderly figures and father/grandpa roles. He is perhaps best known for his role as Otis "Old Man" Peabody in ''Back to the Future'' (1985). Early life Hare was born in Elkins, West Virginia, the son of Frances Laetitia (née Satterfield) and George Thomas Hare. Career Hare had appeared on stage, screen, and television since he was 15. Becoming a veteran of stage for over a half of a century, Hare's film debut was Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Wrong Man'' (1956) and his final theatrical appearance was ''Me and Veronica'' in 1992. Hare's other distinctive film credits include roles in ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'' (1972), '' The Rose'' (1979), ''The Electric Horseman'' (1979), ''Enter the Ninja'' (1981), '' Eyes of Fire'' (1983), ''Silent Night, Deadly Night'' (1984), '' The Aviator'' (1985), ''Back to the Future'' (1985, as gun-totin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandom
A fandom is a subculture composed of Fan (person), fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy involved with their interest, often as a part of a social network with particular practices, differentiating fandom-affiliated people from those with only a casual interest. A fandom can grow around any area of human interest or activity. The subject of fan interest can be narrowly defined, focused on something like a Media franchise, franchise or an individual celebrity, or encompassing entire hobby, hobbies, genres or fashions. While it is now used to apply to groups of people fascinated with any subject, the term has its roots in those with an Sports fandom, enthusiastic appreciation for sports. Merriam-Webster's dictionary traces the usage of the term back as far as 1903. Many fandoms are overlapped. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer Online Games
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. ''World of Warcraft'', ''Call of Duty'', ''DayZ''). Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity. Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games. The history of multiplayer video games extends over several decades, tracing back to the emergence of electronic gaming in the mid-20th century. One of the earliest insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer Hotseat Games
Hotseat or hot seat, also known as pass-and-play, is a multiplayer mode provided by some turn-based video games, which allows two or more players to play on the same device by taking turns playing the game. The term was first used as a reference to playing a PC game and trading seats with the other player, but the mode dates back to early 1980s arcade games. A notable example of games that use this mode is the '' Heroes of Might and Magic'' series, which allows up to 8 players to play locally on the same computer. Hotseat multiplayer has also seen prominence on some console video games, especially certain multiplayer games that are intended to be family-friendly, within the party A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a Hospitality, host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will oft ... genre, or both. For example, the Wii games '' Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer And Single-player Video Games
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. ''World of Warcraft'', ''Call of Duty'', ''DayZ''). Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity. Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games. The history of multiplayer video games extends over several decades, tracing back to the emergence of electronic gaming in the mid-20th century. One of the earliest inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindscape Games
* ''Mindscape'', an upcoming 2027 indie mini game based video game (demo released in 2025)
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Mindscape may refer to: * Mental world, an ontological category in metaphysics, populated by nonmaterial mental objects, without physical extension * Mindscape (company), a video game developer * ''Mindscape'' (1976 film), a pinscreen animation short film by Jacques Drouin * ''Mindscape'' (2013 film), an American psychological thriller film by Jorge Dorado * ''Mindscape'', a podcast by Sean M. Carroll Sean Michael Carroll (born October 5, 1966) is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Software
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Video Games
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Fritz (chess)
Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist. With version 13, Morsch retired, and his engine was first replaced by Gyula Horvath's Pandix, and then with Fritz 15, Vasik Rajlich's Rybka. Fritz 17 switched to the Ginkgo engine, written by Frank Schneider. The latest version of the consumer product is Fritz 19. This version supports 64-bit hardware and multiprocessing by default. History In 1991, the German company ChessBase approached the Dutch chess programmer Frans Morsch about writing a chess engine to add to the database program which they sold. Morsch adapted his ''Quest'' program, and ChessBase released it for sale that year as ''Knightstalker'' in the U.S. and Fritz throughout the rest of the world. In 1995, ''Fritz 3'' won the World Computer Chess Championship in Hong Kong, beating an early version of '' Deep Blue''. This was the first time that a program r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
REBEL (chess)
REBEL is a world champion chess program developed by Ed Schröder. Development of REBEL started in 1980 on a TRS-80, and it was ported many times to dedicated hardware and the fastest microprocessors of the day: *1980s – Running on a TRS-80, Apple II, and inside of Mephisto (chess computer), Mephisto brand dedicated chess computers, it won the Dutch open computer chess championship four times. *1991 – Ported to the ARM architecture family, ARM ChessMachine and named Gideon, it won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship. *1992 – Gideon won the World Computer Chess Championship, the first time a microprocessor came ahead of a field of mainframes, supercomputers, and custom chess hardware. *1990s – REBEL was ported to MS-DOS and then Microsoft Windows and sold commercially **1997 – REBEL won a match with GM Arthur Yusupov 10.5–6.5, the first successful challenge of a chess grandmaster by a commercial program. **1998 – REBEL won a match with GM Viswanathan Anand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portable Game Notation
Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a standard plain text format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software. History PGN was devised around 1993, by Steven J. Edwards, and was first popularized and specified via the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.chess. Usage PGN is structured "for easy reading and writing by human users and for easy parsing and generation by computer programs." The chess moves themselves are given in algebraic chess notation using English initials for the pieces. The filename extension is .pgn. There are two formats in the PGN specification, the "import" format and the "export" format. The import format describes data that may have been prepared by hand, and is intentionally lax; a program that can read PGN data should be able to handle the somewhat lax import format. The export format is rather strict and describes data prepared under program control, similar to a pretty prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Chess
''Power Chess'' is a chess-playing video game originally released in September 1996 by Sierra On-Line for the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. Later revisions of the software were released as ''Power Chess 98'' (1997) and ''Power Chess 2.0'' (1998). ''Power Chess'' was also the "intermediate" game included in ''Sierra's Complete Chess'' (1998) along with '' Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess'' (1995) and '' Extreme Chess'' (1996). Engine Its chess engine is "Wchess" by David Kittinger, which played against Deep Blue in the 1995 World Computer Championship in Hong Kong. The game is included as a watchable "Great Game" in ''Power Chess''. Gameplay ''Power Chess'' had two major innovations: the program would adjust its level during the game trying to match that of the player (presaging Chessbase Fritz's Friend Mode). In addition, after each game, a female voice, the Queen, walks the player through the game, pointing out and explaining where the player could have played bette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
