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Is another chess program really necessary? The answer for White Knight is an unequivocal yes - I think it will soon become the program by which all others are judged.

No less than sixteen different options are available to allow you to select speed and playing features. Tournament rules can be set up, as can clock time, orientation (black or white), and difficulty (i.e. how long the computer will 'think').

Speed of "thought" can actually be set from between 1 second and several hours.

If all these options are not enough, White Knight also displays details of its thought processes, giving insight into strategy.

In my opinion, the program played an interesting and challenging game - so challenging that I decided to let it play against Sargon II, tunning on my Apple II.

Most impressively, White Knight beat level 1 Sargon playing white,

after 60 moves. Perhaps I'll let it play itself with invisible pieces (more options!).

P.D.