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|| [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Wii_Chess_Coverart.png link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Chess"]] ||~ || **Wii Chess**,
a chess program for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo|Nintendo's]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii|Wii]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console|console]]. Wii's chess engine is based on [[Loop (Program)|Loop Express]] by [[Fritz Reul]]. In his Ph.D. thesis //New Architectures in Computer Chess//, Reul mentioned Wii Chess as implementation of Non-Bitboard Architectures based on a [[Vector Attacks#15x12|15x12 Board]] representation due to lower performance and the 32-bit [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_bandwidth|bandwidth]] of Nintendo’s [[PowerPC#G3|PowerPC 750 CL]] based main processor <ref>[[Fritz Reul]] (**2009**). //New Architectures in Computer Chess//, Ph.D. Thesis, 2.2.2 Nintendo Wii Chess, pp. 11</ref>. Reul further acknowledged thesis supervisor [[Jaap van den Herik]] who set up the contact to Nintendo in 2007, which implemented Reul's source code successfully in Wii Chess <ref>[[Fritz Reul]] (**2009**). //New Architectures in Computer Chess//, Ph.D. Thesis, Preface</ref>. 

Wii Chess was released on January 18, 2008 in Europe as part of the //Ultimate Board Game Collection// <ref>[[http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Board-Game-Collection-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B000S1L000/ref=sr_1_1_title_0?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1328522348&sr=1-1|Amazon.com: Ultimate Board Game Collection: Nintendo Wii: Video Games]]
</ref> and on September 30, 2008 under the name //Tsūshin Taikyoku: World Chess// in Japan. No release in North America or Australia has been announced, making it the only game in the Wii series that was not released in these countries <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Chess|Wii Chess from Wikipedia]]</ref>. ||
|| Wii Chess box art <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Chess|Wii Chess from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=See also=
* [[Loop (Program)|Loop]]
* [[Dedicated Chess Computers#GameConsole|Video Game Console Engines]]

=Publications=
* [[Fritz Reul]] (**2009**). //New Architectures in Computer Chess//, Ph.D. Thesis, [[http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/uiterwijk/Theses/PhD/Reul_thesis.pdf|pdf]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22257|anybody know about chess program for wiiconsole]] by [[Charles Roberson]], [[CCC]], July 09, 2008
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=213390&t=23375|Re: Bob Hyatt says that...]] by [[Michael Scheidl|Mike Scheidl]], [[CCC]], August 29, 2008
* [[http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1353|Loop 2007 / Fruit 2.1]] by [[Mark Watkins|BB+]], [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], April 18, 2011 » [[Loop (Program)|Loop]], [[Fruit]]

=External Links=
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Chess|Wii Chess from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/wii_chess_2787.html|Wii Chess - Nintendo - Games]]
* [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/wii-chess-review|Wii Chess Review]] by [[http://www.eurogamer.net/author/31|Tom Bramwell]],  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurogamer|Eurogamer.net]], January 24, 2008
* [[http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/2650/newswii-chess-screens/|Wii News: Wii Chess Screens - Official Nintendo Magazine]]
* [[http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Wii%20Chess&rh=n%3A468642%2Ck%3AWii%20Chess&page=1|Amazon.com: Wii Chess: Video Games]]

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