Chessmaster 10th Edition (PC CD)

I play on the internet with some American friend who advised me to buy this. I was so pleased to discover Josh Waitzkin Academy. He takes you by the hand and gives a full explanation with exercises about tactics and strategy. He alo has his own annotated games and a marvellous brief description of endgames. Some say it's for kids. I am a 65 year old kid! And I thotoughly enjoy watching and listening to Josh Waitzkin enthusiastic voice. He makes clear descriptions of tactics and strategy. He puts his examples that you have to work through yourself with hints. The solution are fully explained.When you finish this Academy, there's another Academy too on Attacking chess.There are fun games to play, puzzles, different fun sets and "the expert" black pieces on grey and black chess board> If you think chess is boring, then listen and be led by Josh's voice through the intricacies of tactics and strategy and become a better player..The programme has the advantage of the audio. That's a definite plus over other programme. It makes it easy to understand, and gets you ready to play with a good standard. Highly recommended.

A very good program, which I love using - but there are issues.Minor faultSome of the lower ranked 'opponants' on the program make some very strange moves - for example, sacrificing the Queen for no reason at all - when they are winning. This turns the game around immediately.Major fault ......The program sometimes calls a stalemate - (thus ending the game) when it is clearly not a stalemate. Quite often, this happens just as I'm about to call an extremely obvious checkmate.Having said that, I would still recommend this program.

I bought Chessmaster 10th Edition at the same time as I bought Fritz 10 and have to say that Fritz is far and away the better programme in more ways than one.I successfully installed Fritz at the first attempt even though I have not been able to use the 3D function fully. However I have had no end of problems with Chessmaster. Initially the programme would not install at all because of what seems to be a problem with the 3D engine. When I eventually succeeded in installing Chessmaster it crashed after a day and I am now having to attempt to install it again.Although there is a technical support back up system you can contact there does not seem to be any straight forward answer available to the problems I am experiencing. Various patches are available to download but any which I have attempted to download have been rejected for some reason.When I buy a cd or a dvd I expect it to work without any problem. Likewise when I buy a computer game I do not expect to have to waste hours of my time trying to find answers as to why it won't work when I should be using my time getting pleasure from playing the game.I would add that Fritz comes contained on 1 disc, Chessmaster comes on 3 discs which have to be loaded in turn and if you cannot install it then you have to go through the whole process again.I cannot recommend this product at all due to the problems I have experienced and anyone purchasing it should be prepared for the worst.

I am waiting for an IT expert, or a YOUNG CHILD, TO LOAD AND INSTAL THIS AS THE INSTRUCTIONS FAILED FOR ME

Very disappointed as it would not work at all on my Win10 laptop without a number of patches applied - so gave up as its TOO time consuming..However, on my Windows XP3 PC it DID work quite well but you are required to leave an ' installation CD' in the drive while you start and play- ALL the time - unless - once again - you install a few patches into the prog which can be obtained from the internet. There are NO helpful instructions included with the 3 install disks to do any of these upgrades. Any upgrade is made purely by searching the web and looking for patches and instructions... because it does not work properly. ( Incidentally, I tried asking support for help - but you are required to fill out a long form with many personal details - which in the end - did not work either.)

I learnt how to play chess years ago as a child but in recent years I haven't found opponents to play. This game is perfect for people who haven't played for years and are rusty and for complete beginners and those who play very well. You can choose to play at any level to suit yourself. The game has many, many personalities with differing levels from complete novice to world champions. The personalities of the great chess masters are included and Shakespeare, interestingly. The tutorials include voice overs from real Chess champions and have puzzles and exercises to solve. The tutorials greatly helped and improved my game, openings are explained, tactics and endgame. There's scope to play this game for years. I highly recommend it.

Chessmaster is a good solution to sharpen your basic skills in attack and in defence.A good mid level to keep you in form until the lockdown passes. Then back to the club.

I like this Chess game as I am a strong player. Level 1 and 2 are easy, level 3 is easy but will win if careless, level 4 requires a lot of concentration, level 5 is tough and level 6 will probabbly beat the best players the other levels I have not been able to beat....yet.The board and the pieces are very well graphically rendered in nice, rich and smooth 3d graphics with an impressive appearance. The chess board and the pieces can be changed for many different styles from the normal staunton to sureal fantasy and cartoon style.Its one of the best Chess games for serious players and beginners alike, so therefore you only need this one game.