Talk:Chess Titans

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Does anyone know if this program supports the Winboard protocol for chess engines? What about online play on FICS? Seer 20:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

It does not support Winboard protocol and online play is not a possiblity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.94.50 (talk) 22:03, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's incredibly rudimentary. You can't even print the game moves or export them to PGN (well, Mac Chess does not support PGN either, but at least you can save to an XML format that can be automatically converted to PGN). You can save only one game etc.
And for the playing strength... I haven't played against it yet, but I'm currently staging a sort of Mac OS vs. Vista showdown with Chess Titans at level 10 playing white and Chess.app at max. strength playing black, and it's rather funny to behold because Chess.app is totally wiping the floor with "Titans". Currently, black is two pawns and both bishops up, and white is totally on the defensive. And Mac Chess is probably the weakest chess program I have seen so far.
So it seems this game is all about graphics and little else. Aragorn2 00:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

This game is very poorly designed. Not only is the play poor but it doesn't follow the rules. The computer just cheated by castling across check! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.73 (talk) 00:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

It is legal for rhe rook to move through attack. It is only illegal for the king to move through check

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Watch out, someone vandalized this page. I turned it back, though. Dr. F.C. Turner - [USERPAGE|USERTALK] -

You only reverted the vandalism to the article, not to this talk page.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 13:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose of the Oberon Link

Why is there a link to Oberon at the bottom? I don't see any explanation of why it relates to the main article. Zian 19:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Oberon appears to have participated in development.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 13:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Artificial Intelligence

Does someone know the skill of the AI engine? Compared to others such as Fritz, Crafty, GNU Chess? --Ysangkok 17:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It's pretty bad. It's easy to win at all stages, and it often makes allot of stupid moves. But then again it depends on the skill of the player. I tested it against my cellphone, which uses 1 sec to make a move, while the PC use 20 sec on each move at level 10. The cellphone won. Jørgen88 12:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
It's been hard for me at beginner, I think it really has to do with the skill of the player, as I don't play chess very often. Alreajk —Preceding forge signed comment added by 69.123.220.151 (talk) 23:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I got to a point in the game where i had only my king and the computer had a king and queen, on level 9. rather than boxing me into a corner or against a wall with the queen and the king covering it, the computer put the queen right next to me with the king on the other end of the board! so captured the queen; stalemate. Terrible AI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.120.166.63 (talk) 23:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Titans is a very primitive chess program, it does make a lot of senseless moves and fails to recognize simple threats. It also has bugs that allow illegal or (so I've heard) out of turn moves. I'd recommend getting even the most basic third party chess program if you really want to learn the game. There's no point in playing against software that allows or makes illegal or stupid moves. Garyberger (talk) 18:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
All the examples of "illegal moves" I found on google have been En passants. If you have any examples of the computer really making an illegal move, it would be beneficial to put it on the article, don't you think? Miggyb (talk) 02:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why the Reported Bugs are deleted?

Why the section that described the different kinds of bugs that Chess Titans contained has been deleted. I just would like to know why. Thanks for the understanding! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.90.186 (talk) 03:56, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

There were no sources given in the section. Themodernizer (talk) 17:46, 9 March 2008 (UTC)