Grandmaster+Chess

a commercial chess program for the IBM PC, running under PC-DOS in [|VGA] or [|SVGA] mode, featuring 2D and 3D boards within a GUI with [|mouse] and [|menu] control. Grandmaster Chess was devoloped by [|IntraCorp, Inc.], published in 1993 by [|Capstone Software]. The chess AI was contributed by John Stanback, who modified his Zarkov 2.5 engine to be more selective. The program had the limited ability to learn from its mistakes utilizing a persistant hash table and saving any situation where the score changes against it. It will then recognize this situation as a losing one before it happens and take steps to avoid it, if it occurs in another game.
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 * [[image:grandmaster-chess.png width="320" link="http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/grandmaster-chess-cd-rom-edition/screenshots/gameShotId,255153/"]] ||~ || **Grandmaster Chess**,

The CD package further included the DOS program //Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars//, also with Stanback's chess routines , featuring sounds and characters from the movie //[|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]// as pieces, and captures animated a la Battle Chess. || toc =See also=
 * Grandmaster Chess 3D Board and dropdown menu ||~ ||^ ||
 * Chessmaster 3000
 * Excalibur Grandmaster
 * Grand Master
 * Masters
 * PocketGrandmaster
 * Zarkov

=Reviews=
 * [|Tim Carter] (**1992**). //Castling with Capstone's Grandmaster Chess//. [|Computer Gaming World], 11/1992, [|pdf]

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Zarkov vs GrandMaster Chess] by Roger Uzun, rgc, October 16, 1992
 * [| "Grandmaster Chess"] by Lin Harper, CCC, March 25, 2001
 * [|La Máquina Preservadora 5. John Stanback, Mr. Zarkov] by Luis a, Meca Foro, March 21, 2014 (Spanish)

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * [|Zarkov Development History - Grandmaster Chess]
 * [|Grandmaster Chess from Wikipedia]
 * [|Grandmaster Chess (CD-ROM Edition)] - [|MobyGames]
 * [|Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars for DOS (1993)] - [|MobyGames]
 * [|Grandmaster Chess | Home of the Underdogs], March 21, 2009
 * [|Grandmaster Chess - My Abandonware]

Misc

 * [|Grandmaster (chess) from Wikipedia]

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