Chess for the Gameboy Advance?

[Guest]

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Does anyone know of any Chess games for the Gameboy Advance?
The only one I found was Ultimate Brain games from 2003, and that
is hard to find... Anything later that anyone knows of?

Thanks

Bharat

 

[martin]

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There's Chessmater. Hard to find. Search Ebay.

Also, true to CM tradition, the UI is a pain.

-Martin


"R. Bharat Rao" <rao_bharat@yahoo-nospam-this.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of any Chess games for the Gameboy Advance?
> The only one I found was Ultimate Brain games from 2003, and that
> is hard to find... Anything later that anyone knows of?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bharat
>

 

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"R. Bharat Rao" <rao_bharat@yahoo-nospam-this.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of any Chess games for the Gameboy Advance?
> The only one I found was Ultimate Brain games from 2003, and that
> is hard to find... Anything later that anyone knows of?

I found both Chessmaster and Ultimate Brain Games (8 games one of which is
Chess) for Gameboy Advance.

Anyone with experience with both -- which would be best for a 9-year old kid
who is really into chess -- (just looking at the chess mart, ignoring the
value of
the other 7 games on Ultimate Brain Games).

Thanks in advance

Bharat

 

[Guest]

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There's also Kasparov Chess for Gameboy Advance - I have absolutely no
idea if it is any good, just that it exists.(there's also an ancient 4-
in-one game that was just hideously awful and unplayable)

Chessmaster for Gameboy is easy to find on ebay but be careful. Ther are
four different versions and the first one was pretty lame. Sellers tend
to describe them all as "gameboy color advance" even if they aren't. You
don't want the oldest one which only has two levels of play. I am not
sure but I **think** the other three are all basically the same game.

It's not really very much fun to play; the interface doesn't work well
and the screen is tiny and it's a pain that you can't save a game. But if
you are going to have a Gameboy anyway it's nice to have chess for it.
But don't spend a lot of time or money on this.

If there's no box: the Advance version is a smaller cartridge, the Color
version has a big yellow knight and blue king on the left side of the
label, the Original has a big picture of the Chessmaster with a little
white chessboard, then the "new" Chessmaster has the same picture as the
Original but the word "new" is in tiny type above "Chessmaster".

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/567124.asp
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/g/game_boy/new_chessmaster/overview.php
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/g/game_boy/chessmaster/overview.php
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/g/game_boy_color/chessmaster/overview.php