Chessmaster 10th Edition

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $11.98

Features:

• Chess teacher, mentor, and ultimate opponent with intuitive user interface
• Chessmaster Academy teaches the basics, plus a variety of simple strategies
• Animated chess sets; whimsical 3D sets; simple and efficient learning tools
• Full-featured online chess module; comprehensive chess engine
• Intermediate and advanced player options; for ages 6 and older

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Is a better game now from patches [Posted on 2007-11-08]
Most or even all of the problems with this chess game have been fixed with patches over the years, and you dont have to have the Cd in the drive anymore either to play. And its a better value then the new Chessmaster 11 Grandmaster Edition thats out now,which is almost the same game just re-packaged. So unless your a Pro chess champion then this game is pretty good for new to moderate players and the price.

CM10 is a fairly good program with flaws (does run on Vista) [Posted on 2007-12-05]
This is a pretty good chess program for beginners & intermediate players, has a lot that helps you learn, including of course not-too-bad player simulation. It's not perfect, but I would recommend it if you're looking for something for anyone who wants to learn or get better.

There is a long list under "how this program could have been better". See some of the other reviews, but my top 3 gripes are: (1) dumb programming that chews up the CPU even when the program is supposed to be idle; (2) bugs, especially a "hang" problem on single-cpu/single-core machines, where the game program just gets stuck somewhere (looks like a race condition; solution is to temporarily lower the priority of the TheKing processes by using TaskManager); (3) explanations of bad moves, or recommendations of good moves, provide detail but not the big picture.

Finally, it does appear to run fine in Vista: I installed it normally and have been playing it without problems. (I haven't seen the hang problem, but since I have a dual-core machine now I don't expect the race condition to occur.)

Computers have a new way of explaining things. [Posted on 2008-01-05]
Fast. True. But I once memorized a whole game. 41 moves. Anyone have a comment about that. Either way Black or White. My move the same King right pawn two out!

chess buyer [Posted on 2008-02-11]
easy, smart, good to use from me up to my brothers. It is cheap too. Something bad: Always one CD needed to run.

Great program w/ small annoyances [Posted on 2008-04-07]
This is a great program on so many levels. It's a very strong chess-playing engine (w/ many interesting personalities), plus some terrific analysis that you can do. Altho' I don't play too often against the program itself, I LOVE the analysis feature for games I have played over the board. It recommends stronger moves I cd've played and suggests the next 7 strongest moves in the continuation. There are also some excellent tutorials included by top-notch chess players and targeted to diff. levels of players, so they don't all go over the head of a beginning player. (Occasionally there are errors in these, but rarely.)
It's annoying that you can't play w/o having the CD-ROM in the disk drive and I could do w/o all the weird board and piece combos. Also counterintuitive is adding a new player (e.g., the name of a friend whom you just played w/). It's MUCH harder than in CM9, for some reason.
I love watching two diff. personalities play games against each other and then replaying them later w/ diff. variations. Like what wd a Ruy Lopez game between 2 excellent players look like? Ok, now what wd happen if Black had chosen Nc3 on move 5? Comparing these games is instructive. It's an amazing chess learning tool at a great price.

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