Chessmaster 5000
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Chessmaster 5000 is the 10th Anniversary release of the game.
This implementation features a revised Windows interface, new tutorials, a new chess database with over twenty seven thousand entries, new time controls, sound effects and music.
The game can be played against an AI opponent, against another person or against a remote player.
The game's documentation lists the following as the top fifteen new features of this game:
- New engine optimised for a 32-bit Pentium
- New graphics including more than ten new chess sets both 2D and 3D plus a number of new boards
- A new chess database with twenty seven thousand entries. This is not installed with the game, it stays on the CD-ROM
- Over 20 new tutorial courses written by Eric Schller, the Californian State Champion
- A new Windows 95 interface which makes use of pop-up menus and context sensitive help. Chessmaster 5000 also supports long file names
- A NEW Coach window which shows a quick summary of all possible moves.
- Custom True Type chess font which lets Chessmaster 5000 support figurine notation and embedded board diagrams in annotations.
- Over sixty new opening books customised to simulate the play of a famous grand master.
- Over thirty new personalities of all levels
- New time controls including the Fischer time control, the hourglass time control and a new LCD-style digital clock in addition to the analog clocks.
- Two thousand named opening variations, a great increase on earlier versions which recognised two hundred. Among the new openings are the hippopotamus, the tumbleweed gambit, and the Latvian Defence/Corkscrew counter gambit
- A glossary with over sixteen hundred entries
- Enhanced annotator now generates summary statistics for the game and additional commentary on inadvisable moves.
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- 国际象棋大师5000 - Simplified Chinese spelling
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Game added by Brian Hirt.
Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, Rainer S.
Game added March 1, 1999. Last modified April 4, 2024.