Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge
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The Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge is a 2-D, 3-D, Chess
game by Telegames
. You can either play one player vs the game engine or two players (using the same console). The game engine uses the experience of the Fidelity company which elaborates the Master rated (2325 Elo) chess program. It certainly uses the program of the 6502 programs (Sensory 9—Excellence) series.
The program has 17 levels of play. Eight of them are time based level setting the average response time from 5 seconds (level time 1) to 4 minutes (level 8). The eight following levels restrict the program ability to lookahead. For example, level depth 1 restricts the program to a lookahead of 1 ply or 1 half move, level depth 2 restricts the computer's lookahead to 2 plies or 2 half moves, and so on to level depth 8. The 17th level is an infinite level, the computation can either be stopped by the user or by the finding of a forced mate.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
game by Telegames
Telegames
Telegames, Inc. is a North American video game company based in Gun Barrel City, Texas, with a sister operation based in England.Telegames was well known for supporting not just modern game systems but also classic game systems, after they've been abandoned by its manufacturer. Effective September...
. You can either play one player vs the game engine or two players (using the same console). The game engine uses the experience of the Fidelity company which elaborates the Master rated (2325 Elo) chess program. It certainly uses the program of the 6502 programs (Sensory 9—Excellence) series.
The program has 17 levels of play. Eight of them are time based level setting the average response time from 5 seconds (level time 1) to 4 minutes (level 8). The eight following levels restrict the program ability to lookahead. For example, level depth 1 restricts the program to a lookahead of 1 ply or 1 half move, level depth 2 restricts the computer's lookahead to 2 plies or 2 half moves, and so on to level depth 8. The 17th level is an infinite level, the computation can either be stopped by the user or by the finding of a forced mate.
External links
- The Fidelity Ultimate Chess Challenge on AtariAgeAtariAgeAtari Age was a magazine distributed to Atari Club members from 1982 until 1984. It was published by The Atari Club Inc., a subsidiary of Atari, Inc.-History:...