What is Chess++?

Chess++ is a program written in Symantec C++/TCL 1.1.3 which, as you might guess, plays chess.  It was used as the demo project for the introduction of Symantec's new THINK Project Manager at the World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in California in early May, 1993.  During that introduction, the project unexpectedly quit, but no one knows why, and noone can reproduce a crash on any machine.  If you can, let me know how you did it!

Chess++ does in fact play chess, offers different levels of play, and can be great if you're learning to play chess because if you option click on one of your chess pieces, the squares that you can move to will be highlighted.  Chess++ will "think" in the background, and you can alter its degree of "multifinder friendliness".  Take a look at the options dialog and you'll see. The "Back propagation" option in the dialog is bogus.  Sorry. Chess++ can show you the current piece it's thinking about, and can optionally beep everytime it finds a better move to make against you. One other feature which has been in there since the very beginning of the Mac version is a "Tell Time" command.  Like it says, it tells the time, in my voice. It's a little cheezy, but I couldn't resist leaving it in there. The about box is kinda neat, and comes in three flavors, which are chosen at random.

 

Download Chess++ for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

System 7 - Mac OS 9.2.2

At least 1MB of free RAM

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II