The video games proposed different levels of difficulty, the possibility to choose the pieces, the chessboard, the decor in which one plays. Very quickly, the pieces were replaced by colored, animated characters. to propose always more powerful programs and higher levels of difficulty), wanted to be innovative from a ludic point of view. The evolution of the video chess game, in addition to following the one of the electronic chess games (i.e. The project of making a chess game on Atari 2600 seemed at first impossible because of the technological limitations of the console, but in 1979 the constraints were overcome and the first video chess game was born. We enter the era of video chess games, even if in parallel and still today, electronic chess games are still produced, for the simple and good reason that, today, the miniaturization of components allows to propose very good programs to electronic chessboards, and maybe also because the purist (not to say the old man) prefers to play in real, on a chessboard and with physical pieces.Īccording to my research, the first video chess game is Video Chess on Atari 2600, programmed by Bob Whitehead.
WHO DEVELOPED THE DEEP BLUE CHESS PROGRAM PORTABLE
The travel chess set is being challenged by the games on portable consoles. Some electronic chess boards like the Milton Bradley from Intelligent Games have a robot that moves the pieces by itself thanks to a magnetic system under the squares of the board.Įlectronic travel chess sets are also developing more and more with brands like Novag, Tandy, or Tiger.īut the end of the 1980s also saw the arrival of PCs in homes, and electronic chess sets were quickly overtaken by the ever-increasing power of the latter. The competition develops, and at the end of the 1980s, we are truly in a mass market, which offers different programs, different ways of interacting with the computer. It is necessary to wait 1979 so that the public sees appearing chess computers at affordable prices (1000 francs all the same - approximately 150 euros) and with a good level of play.įidelity Electronics opens the ball and dominates the market with its best-seller (600.000 units sold) : the Chess Challenger 7 which has a rather good modular program (Sargon 2.5).įrom 1982 onwards, competition sets in and the programs become more and more powerful, offering an ever higher level of play. The first electronic chess sets appeared around 1977, they were expensive and not very efficient. The ancestor of the video chess set is the electronic chess set, or chess computer.
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