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Chessmaster 8000
  

Chessmaster 8000

by Focus Multimedia Ltd
Platform:   Windows 98
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Game Information

  • Platform:   Windows 98
  • ELSPA Minimum Age: 3
  • Media: Video Game
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Product Features

  • Voice commentary
  • Natural – Language – Advice option that analyse and vocally suggest position
  • Data base containing over 500 000 games
  • Online game available: 2 players, Internet, LAN, Modem
  • Choice of 3D or 2D chessboard

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  • ASIN: B00005QDN7
  • Release Date: 28 Sep 2001
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,597 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
For more than 12 years, the Chessmaster series has been the leading force in computer-based instructional and competitive chess game play. With more than four million copies sold worldwide, it's not surprising that Mindscape, now part of The Learning Company, continues to update the venerable series to accommodate the cutting-edge technology of the times.

With Chessmaster 8000, the designers have created perhaps the most well-rounded chess game to date. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced chess player, you'll find something in Chessmaster 8000 to suit your style. If you're new to chess or wish to improve the fundamentals of your play, you can head into the classroom section and receive audio walk-throughs and visual game analysis from renowned chess master Josh Waitzkin, the subject of the hit movie Searching for Bobby Fischer.

When you're ready to move on to the tournament scene, Chessmaster 8000 offers over 80 computer-controlled (yet very humanlike) opponents, each with a distinctive playing style. Furthermore, 35 grandmaster personalities are provided, including Kasparov and Fischer, when you're ready to challenge the best of the best.

Chessmaster 8000 includes so many excellent features that it's difficult to mention them all. A "kid's room" helps teach children 6-12 the basic fundamentals and strategies of chess. A complete game database with more than 500,000 classic grandmaster chess encounters can be viewed and analysed. Also, Chessmaster 8000 includes multiplay over network, modem, or their Internet gaming service ChessmasterLive. An excellent package for any chess fan.--Doug Radcliffe Amazon.com

Manufacturer's Description
Chess game that allows play against a great champion or to play online with a one player game. Fourth game of the Saga. Chessmaster 8000 integrates evolutions from it's predecessors, resulting in better looking 2D & 3D views. All complete with new and improved chess pieces.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great training aid, 8 Mar 2002
Being a saddo, I bought a chess computer when I first saw them hit the streets. In the next 30 years the games have improved beyond my most vivid imaginations.

Chessmaster 8000 is the first professional chess game I have had for some 10 years. It knocks 3mb downloadables out of orbit. The levels of play available enable players of all standards to meet their match. Mine is Alicia, a young hairdresser. The score
P36
W16
L16
D4.

Love best....

.... the rating system. It clearly tells you how good you are. You start with a rating of 1600 and then, unless you're very good, you cry foul as you watch it plummit.

You will hit a level, though, and then you can use the excellent training exercises to bring it back to at least where it started.

I used the game to show my mother in law how to play and she was hooked.

Downers......

.... I would love a paper based handbook. It would be my bedside read for months. I found it hard to navigate through the many loaded games. I wanted to watch and analyse the very best as they made moves. I still don't know how. I am probably using less than 20% of the games functionality.
Please show me how to have even more fun.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Chessmaster 8000, 8 Dec 2001
A remarkable, flexible, powerful & intuitive program. The help levels and tutorials are excellent & can be tailored to your own skill level, run it flat out & you'll get splatted unless a grandmaster. An excellent program, improving my chess significantly.

Only concern is that it can consume too much of your life!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for the price, 23 Aug 2002
Like all the Chessmaster products, this is an excellent piece of introductory software. It plays at a wide variety of strengths (the strongest is very strong) and some of the tutorial modules are useful.
That said, its not a path on Chessbase's Fritz (or Junior / HIARCS). Fritz may not have as much eye-candy, but the training features are superb and the added database functionality (partial position searches, annotation searches etc) are a real godsend.
If you're buying a first chess programme, Chessmaster is undoubtedly your best bet. But if you already play and want to move things on to the next level, there are better programmes out there.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I preferred earlier versions for my purposes
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