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Zillions Development & MindSports

present:

Grand Chess

The Zillions Grand Chess Master!

This program brings the exciting new chess variant Grand Chess, invented by Christian Freeling, to your Windows95/WindowsNT desktop.
It allows you to play Grand Chess against the computer whose strength you can vary to your liking. You can also use it to play against another person, letting the program operate as arbitrator and administrator. You can even let it play all by itself.

The full version of Grand Chess costs US$19.95 for 1 user license. You can try it out freely, but without registering you're only allowed 15 minutes or 25 moves of play (whatever comes first) before the program quits. You can try again, of course, as many times as you like.
After you've registered you can play without these limitations, and you will be able to save a game (as many as you like) for achiving purposes or to be resumed later on.

Program Features

Features include, but are not limited to:

  • Strong AI engine with adjustable strength and time settings
  • Legal move display, context-sensitive help, online documentation
  • Take back, rewind, forward, fast-forward, VCR-style navigation buttons
  • Game saving and loading
  • Scoresheet, click to jump to any point in the game
  • Printing
  • Animation, smooth dragging
  • "Smart Moves" feature: one-click to move
  • Coordinate display option
  • Sounds, music

Grand Chess was programmed by commercial chess programmers Mark Lefler and Jeff Mallett using cutting-edge proprietary Zillions technology.