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How good is vista ultimate at chess?

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I'm an avid chess player (roughly 2200 strength) and the first thing I did when I built my new Vista machine was load up the chess program and play it on it's highest strength. I beat it pretty easily. GNU chess (as mentioned) is much stronger and professional programs like Fritz, Shredder and Rybka are far stronger still.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Meh, took me 10 seconds to disable UAC on my machine. And it's a wonderful feature on my wife's machine so she won't fuck it up.
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You forgot the restart that's required 😛.
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Yes ChaoZ, it is called "Chess Titans" and it is in the games folder. 🙂
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I hear when you go to make a move, though, it's a three step process with two verifications, and you need admin level rights.
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Yes, but if you have readyboost, it will cache every possible move you can make to flash memory for increased performance.
 
I suck at Chess. I play Chess Titans (Vista Home Premium) at Level 3 (slider goes up to 10) and struggle to maintain a 40% win rate. But it's fast at that difficulty setting on a Pentium T2310 (1.46GHz, 1MB L2, dual-core).
 
I can beat it consistently at 9, about 85-90% of the time. I haven't played it enough at 10 to know exactly how good it is for sure, but I've won 4/6 games against it. Even at 10 it falls for a lot of obvious moves.

I would guess it's a USCF Class C player on level 10.

My iPhone's GNU chess port is wayyyyyyyyyy better and significantly faster.

Between the two of those, though, I could happily live the rest of my life without ever again seeing the Center Counter Defense.
 
I personally can't stand playing against a computer. A big part of the fun for me is trying to figure out what my opponent is planning, but a computer doesn't really plan, it just makes the best possible move it can find at a given time.
 
Originally posted by: Sureshot324
I personally can't stand playing against a computer. A big part of the fun for me is trying to figure out what my opponent is planning, but a computer doesn't really plan, it just makes the best possible move it can find at a given time.
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Or calls you a cheating whore (sic) when you take its queen. :|
 
Its not too good.
Still its good enough for beginners.


Ever played battle chess ?
That one is fun to watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess


Pick up fritz any version from 7 on.

I think chess is one of the easiest games to learn how to play and a lifetime to master.
Its a shame its been promoted too much as being nerdy or something only for high iq people.

I meet people all the time that play checkers but when I mention chess they act like its the most complicated game in the world and that they could never play it.

I learned when I was 8 from the instructions in one of those cheap, cardboard and plastic versions.
 
does anyone know how to get it to work for XP? chess titans that is...

I'm trying to learn how to play and I find the game pretty good so I would like to know how to get it to work on xp as well...

thx
 
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