• Fun chess game for beginner, intermediate, or advanced players
• Learn from more than 800 classic games; new Blunder Alert function
• Improved chess engine; compete against 150+ different opponents
• Over 30 new chess sets and optional, true 3-D gameplay
• QuickStart and "speed chess"; variety of online, multiplayer options

• PC Gamer (1-year)

Chessmaster 9000 places you where you must master one of history's great challenges -- the age-old game of chess! Avoid common mistakes with Blunder Alert Speed up the action in Speed Chess mode You are invited to test your brain by mastering history's greatest game!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesomely Kewl
Comment: Super good chess game, has extraordinary playing bots that respond extreamly well. You will not be disappointed. Highly reccommended! AAA+

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Chess master Software is cool but power hungry
Comment: I have used chessmaster around 12 years ago and the chessmaster 9000 interface is still the familiar old. However, I ran in to an issue which I remember running in to 12 years ago as well. In the middle of the chess master session, my computer freezes. Looks like the software is really power hungry. My laptop is not all that great for running this type of a game. However, I did not expect it to freeze my laptop regular basis. Once in a while would have been ok. I am working on this issue now and will update my review based on the outcome.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I relied on Amazon
Comment: This is the only Chessmaster game I have owned.I did not buy the latest version based on Amazon reviews. The bottom line is I like it. My chess ability being what it is, I will never even come close to beating it. I recomend it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Chessmaster 9000
Comment: If you enjoy spending hours fiddling with software that doesn't run properly, searching every possible website imaginable to help troubleshoot that software, and reading a 40 page PDF file hoping to find a morsel of useful information on installation, then Chessmaster is the game for you. A colossal waste of time. I have purchased many other games and had no trouble installing and running them, but this one is pure frustration. I managed to get a few false starts with this game which merely let me watch the introductory video that tells you how great the game is. Funny thing is, that's the only part of this software that worked. Now I get to find out how difficult they will make it for me to return it for a refund.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Full install fails
Comment: Chessmaster 9000 fails to install the complete package. I bought two of them, returned one, the unopened one I got for my kids. Maybe it would work on an older version of Windows than XP, but I wouldn't bet on it.

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