It's 2021 now and this program maintains its charm for almost 30 years! The WChess chess engine is certainly no slouch and will take down most Club-level players.
I have PowerChess 98 running on my Windows 10 Dell laptop. This venerable and much beloved chess program runs only on Windows 95. I have PCEM installed on my laptop, which has Windows 95 as the virtual PC's operating system. Then I load PowerChess 98's ISO file using PCEM. It's an hour to two hours process of installing PCEM and related files to get this ancient beauty up and running on your modern PC. I used this single website to do this: https://olistutorials.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/setting-up-pcem-for-windows-95-games/
Warning: it willl take you between an hour and two hours to set everything up.
If anyone is interested to do this, you may direct message me. Or even post your questions here.
Cheers
Frankie "Durian Defense" Kam
Almost retro. ChessMaster 2000 was all of that to me. It had personalities and a real chess improvement plan decades before similar features were made available over the Internet.
I am curios how this Soviet-era dedicated chess computer plays:
CCCP Soviet Chess Computer Electronics MI-01T
Is it aggressive? Positional? Does it offer draws 60% of the time?