old 16-bit chess program

sup guys just wanted to share what i just found. some of you may remember it if you were around during the early days of a 16-bit program. anyway its called battle chess and its a 16 bit dos program. i took a screenshot of it, check out those retro graphics. totally fun to play, if any of you wish to play all you need is a 16-bit emulator. dosbox works great. just thought id share my neat relic software from the past lol.

battle chess copyright 1988 i believe

Oh yes. I remember when that game came out on Nintendo, and then I think it was 8-bit.

Chessmaster was 8-bit when it came out on the NES and was vastly better. It will kick your ass if you give it half a chance. 

I still like a bit of the old Chessmaster on Super Nintendo the odd time. (Chessmaster on the SNES is I'm pretty sure the exact same with updated graphics). I recommend trying the SNES version, and change to 2D board. Actually you can play the NES version here: 

http://game-oldies.com/play-online/chessmaster-the-nintendo-nes

"start" is enter key and use spacebar ("select") to enter the menu. 

I played that as a kid.

It was always a pain, when starting it up, to enter that code. The game came with a big paper decoer ring looking thing that had chess symbols on it. The game would present symbols, and you had to enter the corresponding symbols via use of that thing.

Maybe this was only when installing it though. All I remember is that once it was lost and we couldn't play it until it was found.

I had to be about 10 or 11 when battle chess came out. I got it for my birthday from my best friend. I remember playing it with them and I got further than they would. I think I got close to beating it, but I knew absolutely nothing about chess strategy or hadn't the necessary skills to win. I did enjoy the game though and loved the cut scenes.

Here's a link to Ed Schroeder's free (mostly DOS) chess programs:  http://www.top-5000.nl/cp.htm

Battlechess is near the bottom of the page.

Chessmaster 2100 was one of my first chess programs. A little later, I bought Don Dailey's Rexchess 2.3. Both programs, along with many others, are also available on Ed's page.

The D-Fend Reloaded front end for DOSBox makes it much easier to use DOSBox:  http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/

I played this on an Apple IIGS home computer as a kid.

My older brother had copied it from a friend.  But the game had an anti-piracy scheme.  Each time the game was loaded it asked for a certain move from a list of games that was included in the manual.  Like "Enter move 13 from Fischer-Spassky 1972, Game 5:"  So along with the copied floppies we had a thick stack of photo copies of the manual and the games it drew from.

I like the book making option of Chessmaster 9000. Chessmaster 9000 was the latest version that supports book making by importing a pgn file with games. I know Chessmaster 8000 also support obk book making from a pgn file. Are there previous versions of Chessmaster 8000 that supports this book making from pgn. And was the format of the book also obk? Ho is he programmer that invented it? There are many programmers that worked on Chessmaster. But I wonder ho programmed the book making functions.