The Chess Maniac has used this opening with big effects, especially when wearing the full body costume of a large yellow canary," it informs. "Bobby Fischer was able to gain an advantage over the Soviets who were confused as to the meaning of the Bird. It also lists a powerful set of potential openings, including the Bird Opening-moving the pawn of Queen's Bishop while giving the finger to your opponent.
It then steps through a slightly sarcastic explanation of chess rules, like how castling works, with tongue in cheek and a fair amount of its own terminology like "playmating" (the King being taken by the Queen and so being legally forced to switch to Playmate magazine instead). It's too late, you know." (Little could Chess Maniac know that it was inadvertently predicting American McGee's family crest, translated from the original Latin.) And now you done screwed up and bought the game. Hilarious! You're also warned outright "So, you bought the ad copy. Is it a sexy goat? Details matter!Īs a parody though, it starts early, in the manual, by promising customer support on America Online. I can say that Chess Maniac is apparently immune to Kasparov's "Sod It" gambit, based on throwing units cack-handedly into the meat grinder in the hope that it will be seen as unpredictable and persuade the opponent to just give up rather than mentally process the stupidity.
The main reason I never went into the evil overlord business is that at some point you're guaranteed to be expected to play chess with a rival to prove your intellectual dominance, and I'm told it's rude to either a) cheat with your iPhone while pretending you're just getting a lot of very complicated texts, or b) demonstrate that chess as a method of warfare simulation is predicated on both sides being willing to follow the rules by simply shooting your opponent and taking their stuff while they drown in both indignation and their own blood. The chess engine is, I'm told, OK, though I have no way of confirming this with my pitiful skills. While I can't say that Chess Maniac is exactly hilarious, or really even 'funny' most of the time, it does at least try hard, and that's more than you can say for most parody games. Thing, you cheater! Someone give it a slap on the wrist, if you ever find it.
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