Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition

aka: Chessmaster : Edition Grand Maître, Chessmaster XI, Chessmaster: Die Grossmeister-Edition, Chessmaster: Edizione Grande Maestro
Moby ID: 34964

Windows screenshots

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The manual is 56 pages long and there's a full copy of it on the DVD in .pdf format
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The title screen
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Following the title screen there's an animated sequence showing glass chess pieces tumbling to the sound of classical music
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When loaded the player must either use an existing user id or create a new one. As well as a name they are asked for their experience level, age & gender
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Successfully logged in<br>This is the menu screen. The grey boxes open up Learn, Play & Fun areas of the product<br>This is fullscreen but the game starts in windowed mode
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This is the Chessmaster Academy, one of the options in the Learning section. The other options in this section are:<br>Famous Games<br>A games database, and<br>Openings.
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This is the Chessmaster Academy has three training sections. This is the Josh Waitzkin Academy. The 'Art Of Learning' section is flagged as a new item
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This is the Chessmaster Academy has three training sections. This is the Larry Christiansen section which focuses on 'Attacking Chess' play
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This is the Chessmaster Academy has three training sections. This is the Chessmaster section which is a series of tutorials for three skill levels.
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This is the Famous Games section, one of the options in the Learning section.<br>This shot shows the simple game selection screen. There is a very comprehensive search function
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The Famous Games section. Having selected a game the player can step through it move by move
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One of the options in the Learning section is the games database. This screen shows its comprehensive data query function
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Openings is an option in the game's Learn section.<br>The player can learn from standard openings and can even open their own book
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One of the options in the Learning section is the games database<br>Having selected a game the player can step through it move by move
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In the Play section there's an option to play in simulated tournaments at various skill levels
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In the Play section there's an option to play in simulated tournaments at various skill levels. The board, pieces and background can be changed at any time
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In the Fun section there's an option to play using the 3D Raving Rabbits animated pieces. The 2D toggle in the lower right switches to the cartoon set of pieces
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In the Fun section there's an option to play using 3D animated pieces. The 2D toggle in the lower right switches to this set of pieces. The player can zoom in/out at will
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The tutorial for the Fork My Fruit mini game. Here the player must move their chess piece so that it is attacking two or more peces
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One of the mini games in the Fun section is Minefield Chess. Pieces change colour when attacking a mine. The game's mini windows can be moved around and more can be opened
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One of the mini games in the Fun section is Pathfinder chess, it's a sort of Snake variant.
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One of the options in the Fun section is 'The Kids Academy' which uses a colourful board and set of pieces and talks the user through the basics
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One of the screens from a 'The Kids Academy' tutorial. All the text is spoken clearly though with a US accent
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One of the options in the Fun section are the chess puzzles. These can be played in 2D or 3D as can all games
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This shows the player as they are about to change the style chess pieces. This is just one of many features accessed via a drop down menu
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When the program starts up it will, if connected to the internet, invoke the Ubisoft Autopatch process
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