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Great Tool For Aspiring Chess Greats

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Chessmaster, in my opinion, is one of the tools needed to become a great chess player. I prefer this game because it has great lessons by an International Master. So it can be used by kids and adults alike. It also has a Fun Mode where you can learn the VERY basics without any pain.
One of the greater things about this is that it has so many opponents that it will always give you a challenge. Be warned that some of the opponents do not play in proportion to their rating. In Play/Training mode it readies you to face people to up your rating in Play/Rating mode. In this mode it's do or die. Basically if you win your rating goes up and if you lose it goes down. This game can help any type of player in some way. You will see your playing get better and better each time you play

CM10 is a fairly good program with flaws (does run on Vista)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good chess program for beginners & intermediate players, has a lot that helps you learn, including of course not-too-bad player simulation. It's not perfect, but I would recommend it if you're looking for something for anyone who wants to learn or get better.

There is a long list under "how this program could have been better". See some of the other reviews, but my top 3 gripes are: (1) dumb programming that chews up the CPU even when the program is supposed to be idle; (2) bugs, especially a "hang" problem on single-cpu/single-core machines, where the game program just gets stuck somewhere (looks like a race condition; solution is to temporarily lower the priority of the TheKing processes by using TaskManager); (3) explanations of bad moves, or recommendations of good moves, provide detail but not the big picture.

Finally, it does appear to run fine in Vista: I installed it normally and have been playing it without problems. (I haven't seen the hang problem, but since I have a dual-core machine now I don't expect the race condition to occur.)

game freezes, rarely works

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Whenever we have played this game it freezes up on our computer and so it discourages my son from playing chess. I believe there is a bug in the program that prevents it from working properly. I don't recommend it.

Bugs Buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the ChessBugster.

Normally Ubisoft games are boggus, like Silent Hunter etc but the
King of Bugs is ChessMaster... as a matter of fact once you buy
and run it and start playing the game ChessMaster launches another
program called TheKing.exe which sometimes gets confused and runs 3 4 5 times and kills your computer................

The King of Bugs

I am gonna try Fritz..... i hear is quite good

I managed to get Draws from Chess Master at the highest level it rated itself at 2890

what a joke.........

ChessMaster 10th edition

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: September 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The technical aspects of the game is very strong as is the visiual and audio graphics.

Can anyone tell me how much overlap there is with 9000?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: July 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Would there be any features that would make 9000 worthwhile to buy now in terms of tutoring, historical games or anything else that won't be in the 10th edition? Or should I just wait?

Thanks

I Don't Know

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I order Chessmaster 10th Edition but I never revieved it so it can't write a review about it. You will have to tell me about Chessmaster 10th Edittion.

Computers have a new way of explaining things.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fast. True. But I once memorized a whole game. 41 moves. Anyone have a comment about that. Either way Black or White. My move the same King right pawn two out!

Some Worthwhile Features But It Will Kill Your CD-ROM Drive

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Chessmaster 10 was the first chess program I bought after a 20 year break from playing chess. Initially, I found that it was fun to play with its many bells and whistles: avatars, game analysis, lessons from gms, etc. However, when I became a little more serious about chess I noticed its shortcomings.

First, the only way to run the program is by installing it on your hard drive and then putting it in your CD-Rom. The CD-Rom whirs incessantly (showing my technical ability) to the extent that the program will burn out the drive. This is especially true with laptops. Luckily for me after the program burnt out my drive, the folks at Dell Computer were kind enough to supply me with a replacement drive gratis. However, that was the last time I used Chessmaster and I switched to a far superior program, Fritz, which does not require insertion of the program disk after installation.

Second, it is very difficult to analyze your own games or the games of others using the program and the program is not especially accurate in showing the best lines of play. Again, Fritz is far superior in this regard and comes with a fairly decent initial database of games.

Third, the ratings system is well overblown. I had a rating of 2200 when I stopped using the program, while my USCF rating, at the time, was about 1500. For those who like numerical validation of their chess ability, I suppose Chessmaster will give them a nice ego boost. However, deducting at least 700 points from that assessment to achieve reality is just not acceptable.

Overall, this is a fun program for those players rediscovering or learning chess. However, I cannot recommend it because of the disk issue described above and lack of analytical quality.

chess buyer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

easy, smart, good to use from me up to my brothers. It is cheap too. Something bad: Always one CD needed to run.

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