Doesn't spoil the fun.I'm not a particularly strong player so I can't really comment on the game's maximum playing strength. But if you're going to get creative with the design of chess pieces …? That's a relatively minor gripe though. Where are the knights!? OK, in a conventional chess set the knights are just horse's heads. The only gripe I've got is that the knights are riderless winged horses. It all gives the game a very realistic Tolkienesk sword and sorcery battleground feel. By holding down the left mouse button the board can be rotated and manoeuvred in such a way that it can be viewed from all manner of angle and perspective. Very scary – but all the better for that. It's a factor in those kind of games – but how many of us will ever find ourselves playing at that level? All of the other game play features you'd expect to be present are there though e.g., player v player, player v computer, computer v computer – that's good enough for me.The 3-D pieces, all fully animated, are of the type you wouldn't want to run into up a dark lonely backstreet. If you're playing against the computer it's always going to be able to evaluate hundreds more positions per second than you can – so what's the point of trying to out-do it on time? Some will disagree with that and perhaps point out that games involving grand masters v computers are always timed – and the computer doesn't always win. All very nifty.The game doesn't have any time controls but for me that's a mute point anyway. If you have the conventional chessboard displayed it can also be used to move the pieces in exactly the same way as with the 3-D board – or by dragging and dropping. E.g., you can show/hide the move list, the captured pieces etc., if you want/don't want them visible. At any time during a game you can call up the sub-menu and change some of the game's settings. Pressing the keyboard escape key brings up a sub-menu. When you first start up the game, in addition to the 3-D chessboard, you'll see a small conventional chessboard, plus a window for displaying captured pieces, along with a window for the move list. You just left-click the piece you want to move and right-click the square you want to move it to – job's done. However, I decided to download the free trial anyway – and I'm very glad that I did so.The interface, in fact, is quite easy to navigate and the pieces are very easy to move. My reason for doing so is that, at first, I was put off from trying this game by a couple of the more negative reviews to be found here. Rated 5 out of 5 by ThinManFat from BestChess I've never written a review before but decided to give it a go.

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