Also contains the minigames Fork my fruit (which practices forking), Minesweeper (practices safety of pieces) and the tail game (where the player chooses a long-range chess piece, then trying to make a long tail using captured pieces, and avoiding the enemy pieces to capture the main piece or tail parts). It includes numerous tutorials by International Master Joshua Waitzkin for players of all skill levels.
2004: Chessmaster 9000 was published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.2004: Chessmaster 10th Edition was published for Windows XP.2002: Chessmaster 9000 was published for Windows 98/ME/XP.2000: Chessmaster 8000 was published for Windows 98.1999: Chessmaster 7000 was published for Windows 98 and Chessmaster II was published for PlayStation.1998: Chessmaster 6000 was published for Windows 95 and Windows 98 and Macintosh.1997: Chessmaster 5500 was published for Windows 95.1996: Chessmaster 5000 was published for Windows 95.1996: Chessmaster 4000 was published for Macintosh.1995: Chessmaster 3D for PlayStation had the Chessmaster 4000 engine.1995: Chessmaster 4000 was published for Windows 95.
In July of that year it became the first commercially available software to win the Personal Computer class of the United States Open Computer Chess Championship in Mobile, Alabama. The game had a chess engine written by David Kittinger, and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo USCF in reality, it plays at approximately 1550-1600 Elo (1750-1800 USCF). It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS. 1986: The Chessmaster series started with The Chessmaster 2000 by The Software Toolworks.It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002. MS Windows, MS-DOS, Game Boy, PlayStation Xbox 360 (XBLA), PSP, PS2Ĭhessmaster is a chess-playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. Home :: Chess :: Computer chess Chessmaster Chessmaster