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Pros & Cons
Pros
Chessmaster 9000 is the most enjoyable chess game i have ever played. It plays its multiplayer over ubi.
The solo gameplay is also outstanding. It also happens to be the strength of this game, in my humble opinion.
You get to play with players of your own age (if you were 8 or 10 years old) and the layout becomes a lot simpler. At first i thought the pictures and bios of the opponents were a little silly, but somehow it makes it more fun to have names and images... Read More
Chessmaster is the premier computer chess player for a pc. This is an excellent chess program that will be challenging and instructive for just about all levels from beginners to at least 1500.
Cons
Cdrw chess program is not compatible with some computers. Even though it touts itself as running on xp, there are severe problems with it in that environment.
There's a flourishing blackmarket on the net of cracks to remove this feature. They are two very serious problems with this program that they seem intent on never fixing. A very, very frustrating and sad christmas day for an old man.
Highlights
Quality
Excellent software for learning chess and improving your skills
The ability to toggle the skills of the computer opponent is very valuable and makes the program useful both for myself and for... Read More
On 1 desktop i restarted the program every day for the last 2 months
In the context that i kept the program running on my laptop continuously for the last 2 months and this happened only once this... Read More
Price
With the program the database and the learning tools all for 30 you cant go wrong
The bottom line in my opinion a terrific chess program that is definitely worth the 29
If you had to pay for a chess lecture that good you would easily pay much more money
Also the price is quite nice for such a complete program
Competitiveness
Ive tried kasparovs checkmate and this is definitely better
I recommend that owners of chessbase engines try out chessmaster before they condemn this product both fritz and chessmaster ar... Read More
I was waiting for the longest time for ubisoft to make chessmaster compatible with xp
Also the skill level has increased to being on par with the world champions appx
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- This product had a total of 116 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 5 2024.
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I wish there was a modern version of this that would work with windows 10
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I do have an old machine but i cant find my copy of this game
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I managed to get around the block
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And would tell others about chessmaster 9000
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The chessmaster is an extremely tough opponents
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It even beat us champion larry christiansen in a 6 game match
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Its divided up into several sections
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There at least 50100 different 34personalities34 that you can play against
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