#Chessmaster for mac for mac os#
#Chessmaster for mac portable#
#Chessmaster for mac software#
#Chessmaster for mac windows#

Individual piece values can also be adjusted. The King engine allows users to create new playing styles, called 'personalities', by manipulating several dozen different settings, such as King Safety, Pawn Weakness, Randomness, Mobility and others. CCRL placed it 121st on its August 2020 list (15th among engines only available via purchase). The latest version, Chessmaster 11th Edition, was released in 2007, and has lagged behind more current chess engines. As of MayВ 2008, Chessmaster 9000 remained the most recent version rated by the SSDF. If multiple versions of other engines are stripped out of this list, Chessmaster 9000 ranked 14th among all engines tested. The second edition had an engine designed by Kate and Dan Spracklen of Sargon fame.ДЄccording to the September 2009 Swedish Chess Computer Association (SSDF) rating list, Chessmaster 9000 had an estimated Elo rating of 2718 on an Athlon-1200 PC. It was introduced in Chessmaster 4000 the first edition featured a chess engine written by David Kittinger, who went on to develop the engines for Interplay's USCF Chess, WChess for the German company Millennium 2000, and Sierra Entertainment's Power Chess, Majestic Chess and Disney's Aladdin Chess Adventures. The Chessmaster chess engine is called The King, written by Johan de KГ¶ning of the Netherlands. It includes numerous tutorials by International Master Joshua Waitzkin and Grandmaster Larry Christiansen for players of all skill levels, 900 most important chess games in history, 190 personalities of opponents, children puzzles with Raving Rabbids and other minigames.

#Chessmaster for mac portable#

A portable version for Nintendo DS and PSP is titled Chessmaster: The Art of Learning.

#Chessmaster for mac windows#

2007: Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition (also Chessmaster 11: Grandmaster Edition) is the current version, which was released on 30 October 2007 for Windows XP/ Vista.

2004: Chessmaster 10th Edition was published for Windows XP.

2004: Chessmaster, the mobile Java version was published, also for Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.

Compared to the previous title, a French translation was added.

#Chessmaster for mac for mac os#

In 2003 for PlayStation 2 and in 2004 for Mac OS X.

2002: Chessmaster 9000, first published by Ubisoft for Windows 98/ ME/ XP.

In addition to the English version, a Russian translation was created.

2000: Chessmaster 8000 was published for Windows 98.

1999: Chessmaster 7000 was published for Windows 98, named as Chessmaster II was published for PlayStation.

1998: Chessmaster 6000 for Windows 95/ Windows 98 and Macintosh.

1995: Chessmaster 3D for PlayStation (had the Chessmaster 4000 engine).

1995: The Chessmaster 4000 was published for Windows 95.

Modem and LAN play was available for the first time.

1993: The Chessmaster 4000 Turbo, first published by Mindscape for Windows 3.x and Macintosh.

Moves are now explained with voice output.

1991: The Chessmaster 3000 was published for DOS, Windows 3.x and Macintosh.

1989: The Chessmaster was published for NES, in 1991 for Game Gear and Game Boy and in 1992 for SNES and Sega Genesis.

A version for the Sega Mega Drive was planned but never released.

1988: The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 was published for Apple II/ Apple IIGS and Commodore 64.

#Chessmaster for mac software#

In July 1986, CM became the first commercially available software to win the Personal Computer class of the United States Open Computer Chess Championship in Mobile, Alabama. USCF rated it over 2000 in reality, it is unknown at what strength it plays because the testings were done on slow 1980s computers. The game had a chess engine (without mouse control) written by David Kittinger and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo. It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS.

First published by Software Country, and soon after by The Software Toolworks.