Underplayed Gems

Virtual Chess (1995)

Virtual Chess cover
Platforms
DOS
Where to get it
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How it feels

a quiet, deliberate experience of matching wits with a computer opponent in a classic board game simulation.

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About

Released in 1995 for DOS, *Virtual Chess* offers a chess simulation experience on the operating system platform of that era. The entry represents an addition to PC gaming libraries from the mid-1990s without further specified details regarding its specific mechanics or content.

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.