Distant Armies
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| Publisher: Eagle Tree Software | Sound: |
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| Year: 1988 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Chess | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 2 simultaneous | Rating: |
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This splendid program offers you ten variants (or ancestors) of chess to try against the computer or a second player. It comes with illustrated texts to discover the rules, as well as historical anecdotes. The whole thing is very well presented, featuring a choice of 2D or 3D representation, assistance for piece placement, and synthesized voices (which are a bit scary). All in English!
Here’s the list of games and variants: Chaturanga, Sit-tu-yin (Burmese chess), Shatranj, Chinese chess, Turkish, Circular (Byzantine chess), Medieval, Courier, Decimal, and Los Alamos.
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