Chessmaster 10th Edition JC | 
| From: Encore
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 4269
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: Chess Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Jewel Case
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 15540
Model: 15540
UPC: 705381155409
EAN: 0705381155409
ASIN: B0011UEPB8
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Chessmaster Academy - At the Academy, International Master Josh Waitzkin walks players through the basics of chess, plus introduce a variety of simple strategies for dominating your opponent. The Academy also features the best attacking moves as taught by noted chess champion, Larry Christiansen | | • | Completely revised interface - clean, clear, and easy to navigate, this all-new interface represents the biggest upgrade to the look and feel of Chessmaster in over seven years. | | • | Full-featured online chess module - more than just a place to play chess live with other players, Chessmaster online allows players to establish rankings, create tournaments, utilize teaching tools, and join a thriving chess community | | • | More fun for the whole family - Features such as animated chess sets, a variety of whimsical 3D sets, and simple and efficient learning tools, makes chess more fun than ever. Younger players and chess beginners will appreciate the specialized section just for them. As players improve, the game suggests an appropriate AI opponent | | • | Comprehensive chess engine - wise enough to teach an absolute beginner and powerful enough to defeat a grandmaster, experience the all-new edition of the King engine--the brains behind the best-selling brand in chess |
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Product Description
Chessmaster® 10th Edition will improve your game regardless of your level of experience. Whether you re new to chess or a tournament-level player Chessmaster 10th Edition allows you to master history's greatest game. Features include: The Chessmaster AcademyAt the Academy International Master Josh Waitzkin will personally walk players through the basics of chess plus introduce a variety of simple strategies for dominating your opponent. The Academy also features the best attacking moves as taught by noted chess champion Larry Christiansen. Full-featured online chess moduleMore than just a place to play chess live with other players Chessmaster online allows players to establish rankings create tournaments utilize teaching tools and join a thriving chess community. More fun for the whole familyFeatures like animated chess sets a variety of whimsical 3D sets and simple and efficient learning tools make chess more fun than ever! Younger players and chess beginners will appreciate the specialized section just for them. As players improve the game suggests an appropriate AI opponent. A comprehensive chess engineWise enough to teach an absolute beginner and powerful enough to defeat a grandmaster experience the all-new edition of the King engine - the brains behind the best-selling brand in chess. Intermediate and advanced player optionsSeasoned chess players can test their skills against ranked AI opponents set up tournaments and simultaneous exhibitions and survey their performances using the new statistics system. System Requirements:Windows® XP (Home and Pro) SP2¹ Pentium III 450 MHz or AMD Duron 600 MHz processor (Pentium III 1 GHz or higher recommended) 128 MB RAM (512MB RAM recommended) 120 MB of free hard disk space DVD-ROM drive Video Card: 4Mb DirectX 9.0 compatible video card (For 3D game play the supported graphic cards are GeForce 1/2/3/4/FX Families and ATI Radeon 7500/8000/ 9000 Families) Minimum Screen Resolution: 1024
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 it's chessmaster November 17, 2009
Kjh (Columbus, OH USA)
what can you say? it's like all the other chessmasters.
It typically beats the pants off me.
I find it's tutorials useless. The recommended moves are pretty silly. And it projects your opponents moves badly, even when the opponent is your computer. I've never once had the analysis be right or even very helpful.
The bad-move alert is cool though. And the graphics are great. The computer opponents are quite challenging.
It's about what I expected. Personally, I'd stick with this version, rather than buying the latest one.
 Poor Programing November 1, 2009
Daniel J. Warme (Van Nuys, CA USA)
Program uses up 1.6 Gigs of space on my hard drive and still requires the CD be installed in the drive to play a game. Installed as the system admin, single user, and still have this problem. Enough said. Don't waste your time or money.
Very good for beginners September 12, 2009
Rajasekar Ramakrishnan (St. Louis, MO)
I bought this product for my two children and they love it. The interface is engaging to 5 & 7 year olds as well as adults. The different levels of expertise and the analysis after the game help my kids stay challenged and develop a love for the game.
there are a few bugs in this version - occasionally, the ownership of the pieces get mixed and thus you can't move your own. Despite that, I think this is good value for the money and to develop interest and skill in the game.
 Fantastic! July 30, 2009
Sean Gainford (London)
Chessmaster 10th Edition offers so much.
First of all, it is very user friendly. Nothing is complicated about it and everything can be found easily. The logical beauty of the program resembles the logical beauty of the game of chess.
There is so much you can do with the program, a lot I haven't even discovered yet. There is training mode, in which you can use the Chess Coach to give you hints and show you paths, tactics, threats and openings that you might have missed otherwise. You can also take back moves, which let's you realise your mistake and gives you a chance to try another path.
There is ranked play, in which you can choose all different types of 3D chess boards and pieces, even 3D animated ones like the Fairytale, which is brilliantly done and which my kid loves. You can choose all different types of computer generated opponents and watch your rating go up, or down. Unfortunately no take back moves in this section. You can also choose different time settings, like hourglass, moves per minute, minutes per game, or Fischer style.
There is also a section where you can set up different positions, which is good when studying with chess books or going over past games that you have completed.
One of the most amazing things about this program is the wealth of knowledge that comes with it. In the Learn section you have grandmasters giving you essential knowledge of the game that will jump your rating up considerably. And there is a huge advantage of doing tutorials on the computer because certain paths, tactics, strategies, and more are highlighted far better than if you just had a book. I'm almost finished with the grandmaster Josh Waitzkin's Academy, and it is brilliant. So much knowledge and stated in a clear, philosophical way.
Other features of the program are being able to play online, setting up tournaments, analysing your game with the program (which to me doesn't seem that helpful) and a Fun section where you can do chess puzzles and sorts.
I have recently started playing a lot of chess960, which is a variant of chess, created by the former World Champion Bobby Fischer. Fischer's goal was to create a chess variant in which chess creativity and talent would be more important than memorization and analysis of opening moves. His approach was to create a randomized initial chess position, which would thus make memorizing chess opening move sequences useless. The initial position is set up in a special way and there are 960 such positions, thus the name 'Chess960'. This is a great contrast to orthodox chess, which only has 1 set up position, and is now usually referred to as chess1. Since the opening book for each possible opening position would be too difficult to devote to memory, each player must create every move originally. From the first move, both players have to come up with original strategies and cannot use well-known thinking patterns. Chess960 thus becomes a game more of tactics, strategy, and creativity rather than just memorisation.
[...] The starting positions can be automatically set up by mychess.de or you can choose a number out of 960 and the set up will be created by mychess.de. Once you make a move, an email is sent to your opponent to tell him or her it's their turn, and vice versa. You can also play live over the internet, join tournaments or create your own. It' a great site and I recommend it to people who are interested in chess960. However you can also play chess1 or orthodox chess on the site too, and is a great site for that also.
I hope Chessmaster one day introduces a way of playing chess960 in their program, or one of the other shuffle chess variations; maybe something that gets out of tradition and invents a better, more logical way of castling then chess960 has. I've invented my own actually: One player mixes his minor and major pieces together, along with his King, then without looking picks up a piece and sets it on the back rank of the first square starting from the left. This continues until all pieces and the King are in their positions. The only rule, like chess960, is that the Bishops have to be on opposite colours. However unlike chess960 the King does not have to be between the two rooks. So you can have a setup of a King on the H1 square and the two rooks to the left of the King. The King still has the power to castle with both rooks, and all the same castling rules apply. However, unlike the strange castling in chess960, in which wherever the rook and King is, the final resting positions after castling results to the position of how chess1 or orthodox chess castling position is; with my way, the King just moves two places to the right or left and the rook goes on the other side of the King. If the King can not move over two spaces, because of being to close to the edge of the board, then it just replaces the rook's position, the King thus only moving one position over. If when setting up the pieces and you lay a bishop down on the same colour as an already laid Bishop, just move the Bishop to the next square to the right, making it thus on a different colour. If the last piece you lay happens to be a Bishop and the last square would make the Bishops on the same colour, then just take the second to the last piece you put down and switch it with the Bishop. The ponds are set up like in chess1 and the other player sets up his pieces so that black and white have a symmetrical position, like chess960, which insures that there is no start up set advantages. This chess variation creates even more random set positions then chess 960, making it even more interesting and with more possibilities in the opening, and throughout the whole game.
Concerning Chessmaster 10th Edition - it really is a must buy and will develop your chess game tremendously, along with giving you many fine, entertaining days of chess play. I highly recommended it, and hope one day to see an updated Chessmaster with shuffle chess incorporated.
Why bad mouth your own mistakes? July 9, 2009
Sudev Mukherjee (Newbury Park, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Chessmaster franchise has already crossed the point where it needs any kind of review on how good or bad it is. For a child or young adult to a newbie to chess, it is undoubtedly the best software. If you are an advanced player, there are other options out there.
Installing and running the game was as simple as any windows software, the annoying part was to enter the CD every time, then from another review I found the link to the update, after installing the update, it is running fine without the CD.
Here is the link:
http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/Info.aspx?pId=1103&tab=download&dcId=63
My son is loving it, even I am enjoying it, the mentoring mode is awesome, a very good gift for any one who enjoys cerebral activity.
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