Chess Titans...Does it cheat?

[Daveski17]

Does anyone play Chess Titans on Vista? I think it cheats a bit. I got the computer down to its King & a Knight. I had three Queens on the board, just because I didn't get checkmate quickly enough it called the game a draw.

I am not bloody Kasparov, why not give me a break? :huh:

 

[MrNeeds]

Dave, please get a girlfriend

 

[Daveski17]

OK....but she had better not cheat

 

[MrNeeds]

Lmao, nice comeback

 

[mansrm81]

Don't know how to play chess so I wouldn't know.

 

[smarteyeball]

Dave, please get a girlfriend

Just curious how playing chess automatically = no girlfriend?

OK....but she had better not cheat

:D

(and yeah, I reckon it does cheat )

 

[KrossX]

Well, it would depend on wich set of rules that game is based.
It probably has a custom set with an entry like:

120.25 When the computer is in a pinch, after two movements without check or checkmate.... the game is a draw.

or...

182.79 If the computer is about to lose, the player may unexpectedly lose instead or game end up as draw (random).

 

[Everlong]

Even on easy, the computer is hard to beat.

I'll stick with playing Purble Place. Cakes don't laugh at me or cheat.

 

[Daveski17]

Well, I find that I can only beat the computer about 25% of the time. It is the only game that I play on my laptop though. Chess might look a tad geeky at times, but I find it relaxes me. I think if it isn't cheating, it is using gamesmanship. Which in my book is a fancy way of saying cheating!

 

[cosmofish]

I think that its stalemate.Rather you show the diagram

 

[BigDaddyBane]

I have encountered that several times. I wiped the board clean off all major pieces and managed to only lose 2 pawns in the process and it called a draw. An earlier game today I took out both rooks, knights, 1 bishop and the queen and it started moving my pieces. Then it wouldn't allow me to move on my turn. I've had comeback games where I only had 2 pawns left and I get them both to queens and after the 2nd one queens it calls it a draw even though it still has most of its pieces on the board.

I sent a message about it to Oberon and they said "We are sorry about the inconvenience. Thank you for your email."

Not very reassuring.

 

[RaNdOmCoMpUtEr]

Does anyone play Chess Titans on Vista? I think it cheats a bit. I got the computer down to its King & a Knight. I had three Queens on the board, just because I didn't get checkmate quickly enough it called the game a draw.

I am not bloody Kasparov, why not give me a break? :huh:

are you sure you didnt stalemate the king?

 

[townsbg]

Maybe it just has some bugs. Other than Windows, no software is perfect. As for the draw just quickly go back a few spaces and try another tactic but I agree with this.

Dave, please get a girlfriend

At least it doesn't declare itself the winner if you have 3 queens and it just has the king. However if the king can't move without being in check if there is nothing else to move then it's a draw. Perhaps that's what happened.