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Email Games: Chess, Checkers, Backgammon
Price: $38.90 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Hasbro
EAN: 0076930993187
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: Hasbro Interactive
Manufacturer: Hasbro Interactive
Model: 99318
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Publisher: Hasbro Interactive
Studio: Hasbro Interactive
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Editorial Review:
E-mail isn't just for letters anymore. With Hasbro Interactive's Email Games: Chess, Checkers & Backgammon you can use your e-mail account to send game moves to friends, colleagues, and family members.
You can still append a little text message to each turn you send, so you won't have to follow up each move with a separate message. Of the three games included, chess is best suited for e-mail play, as it's nice to have a lot of time to mull over your moves and plot a strategy. Checkers and backgammon can get really frustrating, especially when the person you're playing with doesn't answer e-mail often.
The best thing about the software is that only one person playing needs to own it. You can buy a copy, initiate several games with a variety of people, and all they have to do is install a free client program to participate. Email Games is a good way to have fun and stay in touch at the same time, and the low price only adds to the game's appeal. --T. Byrl Baker
Pros: - Other players don't need to own the game to participate
- You can attach text messages to the game turns you send
Cons: - Waiting for someone to send back a checkers or backgammon turn requires patience
Now you can send your best chess, checkers, and backgammon moves to your friends or family when you send them e-mail. Make your move, add a message, type in an e-mail address, and then click the "Play Turn" button. It's that simple. Your opponents can send e-mail back to you with their moves. Both of you will see the full game displayed on a realistic classic game board.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Poor, as are all Hasbro interactive games.
Okay, call me a sucker. I own Scrabble email by Hasbro and have had nothing but problems with it. First, it does not work as on the CD, but has a "patch" that is hard to install and use. Then, every move goes thru the Hasbro server, and they have lost more than one of my Scrabble games midgame.... so, sucker me, thinking Chess would be better, bought this game. It is horrible. I cannot even play at all, my opponent cannot even send back one simgle solitary move. We have a call out to Hasbro, ... Read More
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