It includes numerous tutorials by International Master Joshua Waitzkin and Grandmaster Larry Christiansen for players of all skill levels, 900 most important chess games in history, 190 personalities of opponents, children puzzles with Raving Rabbids and other minigames.
A portable version for Nintendo DS and PSP is titled Chessmaster: The Art of Learning. 2007: Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition (also Chessmaster 11: Grandmaster Edition) is the current version, which was released on 30 October 2007 for Windows XP/ Vista.2004: Chessmaster 10th Edition was published for Windows XP.2004: Chessmaster, the mobile Java version was published, also for Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.Compared to the previous title, a French translation was added.
In 2003 for PlayStation 2 and in 2004 for Mac OS X. 2002: Chessmaster 9000, first published by Ubisoft for Windows 98/ ME/ XP.In addition to the English version, a Russian translation was created.
In July 1986, CM became the first commercially available software to win the Personal Computer class of the United States Open Computer Chess Championship in Mobile, Alabama. USCF rated it over 2000 in reality, it is unknown at what strength it plays because the testings were done on slow 1980s computers. The game had a chess engine (without mouse control) written by David Kittinger and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo. It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS. First published by Software Country, and soon after by The Software Toolworks. If I had a dollar each time someone complained they could not get their Chessmaster to Run on Windows 10, I would be rich. No version of CM was ever meant to Run on Windowsġ0 (nor 7 and 8 for that matter). Occasionally you will see someone hawking to sell their supply of USED Chessmaster 10 software on sites like Amazon and claim something like "for Windows 10". ME or XP ONLY- there are no patches for newer versions of Windows] :Ĭhessmaster 10th Edition FAQ - READ THIS FIRST! | Forums
While there no current updates or patches for Chesssmaster, I found this old UBISOFT support forum site which will provide updates and patches for Chessamaster 10 [but, again, these support updates/patches were meant for running Chessmaster on Windows 98, Windows XP on it- JUST so I can play Chessmaster on occasion.
I like Chessmaster so much I have thought about buying a second hand old PC and installing In other words, if you want to play your Chessmaster 9, 10 or 11 you will need to do it on a Windows Operating System an earlier version of Windows-Windows 98, ME or XP. Support Chessmaster software nor are there, nor were there, any Updates / patches to get any version of Chessmaster to run on newer versions of Windows 7, 8 and 10.Ĭhessmaster 9000 (year 2002), Chessmaster 10 (year 2004) and Chessmaster (11): Grandmaster Edition (year 2007) were the three most recent versions of Chessmaster for PCs and those three versions were meant to be compatible with Windows 98 (1998), ME(2000)Īnd XP (2001), XP Professional(2005) only. In other words, UBISOFT no longer offers current technical Most UNFORTUNATELY for all of us Chessmaster lovers and aficionados, the UBISOFT company STOPPED producing its CHESSMASTER software for PCs BEFORE Microsoft ever came out with Windows 7, 8 or 10.