Chessmaster 8000

Chessmaster 8000 Review

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Chessmaster 8000 Feature

• Works as a chess teacher, mentor, and ultimate opponent
• Animated chess sets with whimsical 3D sets
• Intuitive user interface, with simple and efficient learning tools
• Comprehensive chess engine introduces the basics and simple strategies

Chessmaster 8th Edition will make you a better chess player, showing you how to master history's greatest game!. These interactive games will improve your strategic skills, regardless of your level of experience. Whether you are new to chess or a tournament-level player, Chessmaster 10th Edition allows you to master history's greatest game.

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Customer Reviews

Mostly good, but I'd buy Chessmaster 9 or 10 for stability - Kai Kay - Dayton, OH
I bought this and it's a pretty darn strong chess program. Has lots of useful features and good master games to play through. Some good teaching components in it as well.br /Weaknesses: when you start the game there is a quiz of what's the best move or how to checkmate and it's OFTEN completely wrong! (E.g., sometimes it says checkmate in 2 moves and it's showing the opening setup.) No biggie, tho'. I just clicked thru to the game mode. The worst thing (remedied in CM9 and CM10--I own all 3) is that when you're accessing the pull-down menus and you mouse across horizontally the program freezes almost every time. br /If you're careful and don't do this move you're fine. Another annoyance: you have to have the disk IN the drive when you play (also unfortunately true for CM9 and CM10--bad move for them). One more small annoyance: there's a plethora of boards and game pieces and little focus on the 5 most likely to appeal to players. I mean, does ANYONE really play chess using these bizarre star wars-ish pieces??? Just give me lots of nice Staunton and similar pieces and have done w/ it. br /But CM9 and CM10 are both great w/ surprisingly excellent play and tutorials across a variety of levels. Don't own CM11 yet.



May 09, 2010 02:58:07