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Highly recommend Majestic CHess

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just got Majestic Chess and I think it is fantastic. I really like what the did with the Chess Adventure, great new approach to chess. I've played through 2 levels so far and am having a blast. Very innovative, and excellent graphics (about time someone did that for chess). I've bought several chess games before and this is by far the funnest and freshest to-date. I highly recomend this game.

Definitely Majestic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A great game that is easy and fun to play. Kids will really enjoy the Adventure, but it is also likely to be entertaining for adult beginners and novices. Beautiful graphics.

Best chess game I've played.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just picked this game up yesterday when I saw it at EB. The adventure part is a really good way of teaching you how to play chess. I was able to blast through the first couple levels, but now I'm working my way through the third. It's nice to learn how to play chess without having to sit through pages and pages of text. It actually makes it fun.

In multiplayer it's neat because it tracks a rating for you, so you can play against people around your skill level.

The graphics are stunning too. The 3d pieces look much better than CM9k, and it runs smoother too...

If you want to improve your chess skills, or just want a fun chess game to play through, this is the one to get, especially with the nice price tag.

Majestic Chess Rocks!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great Chess program with excellent features. I am not the greatest at chess but this program is really helping me learn. The tutorials and the learning mode are very efficient!!! Check out the demo to get a sneak peek .....

pretty good introduction to chess

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: August 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a very interesting game to give you an introduction to chess. It does a few things very right. First, there there is adventure mode where it attempts to teach you about chess without it seeming quite so dull. It pulls this off fairly well, I think. It's less instructional than, say, the classroom in the chessmaster series, but it's probably a bit more fun for some younger players.

Second, playing the game against the computer. Here, I expected it to be largely the same as chessmaster, and it is. It uses the same engine ('the king') and it is a decent player, nothing special there. I looked at some teaching modes, and here is where it shines; it explains the purpose of various moves, and seems to handle this much better than any other chess games i've seen, far better than the chessmaster series or the chessbase products (which can explain all the moves, as well as offer text analysis). This is a strong point for the game, and might be worth the cost of admission alone.

Online play, well I did not care for it. I think there are better choices. Of course, chessbase is the only game publisher i've seen that handles online play even halfway decently. There are plenty of web and ics alternatives from yahoo to fics to icc, so I don't think this is a big drawback.

It's around 30$ which is quite a bit cheaper than the chessbase products (around 50) and slightly cheaper than chessmaster (around 40), and comes with a pocketpc version, should you have a windows ce based pda, so it's a fairly good value.

If you are a strong player, you probably won't find much here (say above 1400 uscf) but if you are just a casual player, you may enjoy it.

One word about the graphics and sound; it is not as polished as chessmaster, and I found some mild issues I did not like in adventure mode. In game mode, it was not nearly as bad.

Also, if adventure mode seems unbelievably slow right after you install it, try a reboot. It was necessary for me to reboot after the install, even though I was not prompted to do so (on an xp laptop).

Majestic Chess is Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hey guys Majestic Chess is the coolest chess program!!! Adds more fun to playing chess. I checked out the demo and the advetnure part was aweome..it was like i was in a fairytale story..heheheh. Give the demo a try .

majestic chess

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This an elaborate chess title attempting to capture the imagination of players. It is probably better suited for beginner to intermediate players, but the game itself does put a spin on chess with it's adventures so to speak.

Majestic Is Cool!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: September 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hey guys Majestic CHess is a pretty solid chess program. Great graphics and images filled with action and adventure. What more can one ask for. Anyways The demo and trailer are also awesome which are avialable on the gaming site. I have been having the time of my life challening against those 24 idffernt intelligences!!! .....

Sierra doesn't know what a laptop is

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 25
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, if you have a laptop you will most likely not be able to use this program unless you reload it each time. When I first loaded this thing it worked great, and I played several games. Once I rebooted my laptop, it would not run until I uninstalled and installed again.

I called Sierra, and they said, and I quote, "Our products don't work on laptops; we don't support laptops." I asked, "Why does it work right after you load it, and continue to work as long as you don't reboot?" Sierra's answer? "We don't support our products on laptops."

So, with the book and the box in front of me I told the no-support person that there is nothing on the box that says that laptops are unsupported, and it's a major inconvenience for their customers to purchase a product that is known to not work on a substantial number of computers, and it's irresponsible for them to sell it that way. Sierra's response? The no-support person hung up on me.

Back in the old Macintosh days Sierra made good products that they supported. In my experience with them, that's not the case today. I could have run this on my desktop computer, but I returned it. I won't give Sierra any of my hard-earned dollars again.

Makes chess fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: September 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Majestic Chess is a great game, especially for people who are interested in learning chess but enjoy playing video games. The unique Chess Adventure mode in this game caught my attention so I bought the product, and am very pleased with it! It has rekindled my interest in chess and made learning the game fun. The graphics are great (the best of any chess program I've seen, especially the 3D boards) and there are plenty of other features in the game including online play, an easy to use interface, and a strong chess engine that will challenge anyone. Of course its not as feature rich as a more advanced program like Chessmaster or Fritz, but for a beginner or intermediate player looking for something different, or someone who just wants to have fun and learn the game, its perfect!

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