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'''Video chess''' module activities are designed to give you several playing options:
 
'''Video chess''' module activities are designed to give you several playing options:
 
* '''Play Beginner Game''' - Play against the computer at the beginning skill level in a normal style of play.
 
* '''Play Beginner Game''' - Play against the computer at the beginning skill level in a normal style of play.
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* '''Choose Game Type''' - Choose the type of games you want to play against by selecting the computer's skill level and style of play (from losing to aggressive).
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* '''Use Chessboard''' - Use the Video Chess module's chessboard to play a game against a friend.
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* '''Set up a Problem''' - Set up a special chess position other than the normal games with your TI Home Computer.
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* '''Play Simultaneously''' - Play as many as nine simultaneous games with your TI Home Computer (with 16K bytes of memory).
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* '''Load Cassette Games''' - Use a cassette tape recorder to store and then re-enter a favorite fame of an unfinished game for later completion.
  
 
===Triton Catalog - Fall 1984===
 
===Triton Catalog - Fall 1984===

Revision as of 18:55, 7 February 2022

Video Chess
Video Chess Manual Cover
Video Chess Manual (Front Cover) [1] [2]
Publisher(s) Texas Instruments (TI)
Original Retail Price $69.95 (USD)
Programmer(s) Tom Merrow
Part# PHM 3008
Format(s) Solid State SoftwareTM Command Module
Release 1979 (2nd Quarter)
Genre(s) Board Game, Strategy

Video Chess is a strategy/board game software title created for the TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A home computer system.

Advertising Blurbs

Front Cover of Manual

Choose your own opponent - or play against the computer on any of 3 levels. With this module, your computer can serve as a willing teacher - or a challenging opponent.

Back Cover of Manual

For centuries, chess has been a challenging game enjoyed equally by beginners and masters. The Video Chess Command Module brings a new dimension to the game through your TI Home Computer. Now you'll always have a tireless opponent whose skill level you can set - from beginner, through novice, to intermediate. And if you want, you and a friend can play chess, with your computer making the moves, keeping track of time, noting whose move it is, all while keeping a complete record of the game.

Video chess module activities are designed to give you several playing options:

  • Play Beginner Game - Play against the computer at the beginning skill level in a normal style of play.
  • Choose Game Type - Choose the type of games you want to play against by selecting the computer's skill level and style of play (from losing to aggressive).
  • Use Chessboard - Use the Video Chess module's chessboard to play a game against a friend.
  • Set up a Problem - Set up a special chess position other than the normal games with your TI Home Computer.
  • Play Simultaneously - Play as many as nine simultaneous games with your TI Home Computer (with 16K bytes of memory).
  • Load Cassette Games - Use a cassette tape recorder to store and then re-enter a favorite fame of an unfinished game for later completion.

Triton Catalog - Fall 1984

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