Sargon II

aka: Championship Chess, Sargon Chess II, Sargon II: The Computer Chess Champion, Sargon échec II

Moby ID: 22058

Released

1978 on CP/M

Credits

2 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Moby Score: 7.1
#12,032 of 24.5K
Critics: 78% (4)
Players: (22)
Collected By: 11 players

Genre: Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Top-down
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Chess
Interface: Text parser

CP/M Specs

Business Model: Commercial
Number of Offline Players: 1-2 Players

Description official descriptions

The second of the Sargon chess games.

In this version, you can play the computer or another opponent.

To move, you type the piece's location then the destination; such as A2-A4 to move the far left pawn forward 2 spaces.

If you press a certain key, you can hide the board and see the moves that have been made so far. You can even make your moves from this screen, if you want the added challenge, without seeing the board.

When you play the computer, you must select a level of play. The higher the level, the longer the computer thinks about its moves.

In levels one through six, if you press the ? key, Sargon II will give you a hint of a good, but not necessarily the best, move.

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Sargon series

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Credits (Apple II version)

By	Dan Spracklen Kathe Spracklen

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Critics

Average score: 78% (based on 4 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.4 out of 5 (based on 22 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Subject	By	Date
1979 Computer Chess Tournament	neoshock (10)	Oct 25, 2016
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Contributors to this Entry

Game added by LepricahnsGold.

Atari 8-bit added by Kabushi. Apple II added by Eli Tomlinson. CP/M added by Pseudo_Intellectual. TRS-80 added by me3D31337.

Additional contributors: jean-louis, Pseudo_Intellectual.

Game added May 7, 2006. Last modified June 15, 2024.