Cchess
| Filename | cchess.sit |
|---|---|
| Size | 17.5 KB (17920 bytes) |
| Downloads | 13 |
Cchess is a Macintosh shareware implementation of Xiangqi, or Chinese Chess, distributed on Info-Mac as Chinese Chess Pro v1.0.1. Released in November 1993 by Tie Zeng (then at Apple), it pairs a single-player engine with AppleTalk network play and an in-game chat window, all targeting System 7 or later.
About Xiangqi
Xiangqi is the traditional Chinese strategy board game played between two armies of sixteen pieces on a 9x10 grid divided by a central river. Pieces such as the General, Cannons and Elephants move under rules quite different from Western chess, and the game has been played in China for roughly a thousand years.
Features
Chinese Chess Pro offers a computer opponent whose strength scales with CPU speed, two-player matches over an AppleTalk network, and a chat panel so networked opponents can talk while they play. Additional options are documented in the package's bundled materials.
System Requirements
The program requires System 7.0 or later. It was authored as a 68k application; on faster Macs of the mid-1990s the bundled engine becomes notably stronger thanks to deeper search.
Preservation Notes
Uploaded to Info-Mac as chinese-chess-pro-101.hqx on 17 November 1993 by zeng@apple.com. The file is preserved through the Info-Mac mirror tree under game/brd/ alongside other board-game implementations of the era.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is a StuffIt/Compact Pro archive — use The Unarchiver to extract it.
