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| Chessmaster 10th Edition JC | 
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| From: Encore
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $6.18
You Save: $3.81 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1812
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Jewel Case
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 15540
Model: 15540
UPC: 705381155409
EAN: 0705381155409
ASIN: B0011UEPB8
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Chessmaster Academy - At the Academy, International Master Josh Waitzkin walks players through the basics of chess, plus introduce a variety of simple strategies for dominating your opponent. The Academy also features the best attacking moves as taught by noted chess champion, Larry Christiansen | | • | Completely revised interface - clean, clear, and easy to navigate, this all-new interface represents the biggest upgrade to the look and feel of Chessmaster in over seven years. | | • | Full-featured online chess module - more than just a place to play chess live with other players, Chessmaster online allows players to establish rankings, create tournaments, utilize teaching tools, and join a thriving chess community | | • | More fun for the whole family - Features such as animated chess sets, a variety of whimsical 3D sets, and simple and efficient learning tools, makes chess more fun than ever. Younger players and chess beginners will appreciate the specialized section just for them. As players improve, the game suggests an appropriate AI opponent | | • | Comprehensive chess engine - wise enough to teach an absolute beginner and powerful enough to defeat a grandmaster, experience the all-new edition of the King engine--the brains behind the best-selling brand in chess |
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Product Description
Want to play a game of chess? Don't know how? Chessmaster 10th Edition delivers on its promise to make you a better chess player. The program will improve your game regardless of your level of experience. This landmark edition provides the largest upgrade ever to the features and graphics of the franchise. Whether you are new to chess or a tournament-level player, Chessmaster 10th Edition allows you to master history's greatest game. Whether you're a novice or a master, this is your route to saying 'Yes' whenever someone wants a game of chess. Intermediate and advanced player options - seasoned chess players can test their skills against ranked AI opponents, set up tournaments and simultaneous exhibitions, and survey their performances using the new statistics system
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 CD protection is a nuisance November 29, 2008
I have nothing against people protecting their product but the CD protection on this product made it virtually unusable for me. I installed it on a laptop that does not have a perminant CD drive, the laptop is small and good for use when travelling. Whenever I attempt to use the product it always requests me to load the install CD -- this apparently is a copyright protection mechanism that is described in the user manual. There are claims in the documentation that it is possible to get it to only ask once every so many attempts to play but for me it always asked even if I did a "full" install of all components. Its probably a nice product if you can use it but it didn't work t all for me.
 Mediocre game from a company with bad tech support November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchase and installed Chessmaster 10th edition.
This game takes 1.6GB space on hard disk and requires keeping CD in the drive or it doesn't start. According to Ubisoft tech support, it only works for one account- administrator who installed the game.
Game has some obvious bugs, such as pop up windows sometimes stay on top of chess board and you can't see the game. Tech support said this issue may have been solved in their updates, but problem is that updating doesn't work and I was unable to resolve the issue with Ubisoft tech support. Their help is laughable: Update drivers, defragment disk, empty windows Temp directory, and empty recycle bin. None of that had any affect on updates.
Buyer be ware.
Chessmaster 10th Edition JC
media quality is suspect October 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have really benefitted from the instructional materials in Chessmaster 8000, but it is very unstable on Windows XP. So I was very eager to give this 10th Edition a try, now that the price is so low. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked for me. My 6-year-old laptop could not read disc 3 during the installation, so I obtained another copy. This time, two of the three discs were unreadable. My laptop reads other discs just fine, and my other computer (a hefty mid-tower desktop machine) seems to read Chessmaster 10th Edition OK. I guess I can't entirely rule out a problem with my laptop's drive. However, looking at the software CDs, I suspect that Ubisoft has been using very low quality discs. They contain a lot of speckling, scratches, and other surface defects which can be felt with my finger. My laptop's DVD+RW drive might not be the best at handling these things compared with what's in my desktop computer, but it seems clear to me that something's wrong with these discs - not the drive.
Since I want this primarily for my laptop, I'm going to try to return this software again. I don't think getting this to work is worth a hardware upgrade. Perhaps I'll try the next edition instead.
 great chess game September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the classic Chess tutorial and adversary - and this edition does not disappoint. Intuitive interface is easy to navigate, tutorials bring a player of any level up to speed, the sophisticated adjustable skill rating for the computer opponent is great, the advanced attacking tutorials are useful, the puzzles are good breaks for work/studying. Overall an amazing value for just ten dollars. Buy if you want to improve your chessgame or if you want a new challenge.
 Game is great, packaging is misleading. August 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, this is not a review of the game, just the packaging and contents. This "JC", or jewel case version, shows on the cover that it contains a DVD Rom and requires only 120MB of hard drive space. The package actually contained 3 CDs, the install routine copied about 1.6 GB worth of files onto the hard drive it and requires the CD to be inserted to play. This wouldn't have been a showstopper if it had been stated in the product description, but you may wish to look for a package with the DVD.
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