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Reddit mentions of Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition
Sentiment score: 3
Reddit mentions: 5
We found 5 Reddit mentions of Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition. Here are the top ones.
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- Extensive course on the basics of chess taught by International Chess Master Josh Waitzkin
- Tutorials from Josh Waitzkin's groundbreaking book The Art of Learning
- Attacking Chess course commentary by Grandmaster Larry Christiansen
- 900 of chess's most important games presented and analyzed; single or multiplayer gameplay
- 600,000+ game database; coverage of all classic and modern opening variations
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Specs:
| Height | 1.1 Inches |
| Length | 7.4 Inches |
| Release date | October 2007 |
| Weight | 0.5 Pounds |
| Width | 5.3 Inches |
If you have a Windows PC, Chessmaster is still fantastic to improve your chess: https://www.amazon.com/Chessmaster-Grandmaster-Linux/dp/B000SL4ANE/
Works on Windows XP and 7, but not sure about Windows 8 or 10. But there are patches and people claim it can be played on Windows 10 too.
Seconded. The tutorials are amazing. You can get the 10th Edition for $5.64 on Amazon. It doesn't seem that they've made any considerable changes in the Grandmaster Edition to warrant the extra money, so 10th edition seems the way to go.
To elaborate a bit on the tutorials, if you're a beginner, and in the unfortunate habit of hanging pieces, the course will get you analyzing the whole board while you unconsciously learn how to avoid simple hangings and more complicated tactical blunders. Intermediate players may gain less from the series, but annotated games from Josh Waitzkin and Larry Christensen breed confidence in tactical and positional awareness.
I've used Chessmaster 10th Edition and I think it's pretty good if you can get your hands on it. You can check out the Grandmaster Edition too, since it's more recent. Takes you from barebones how-the-pieces-move stuff, all the way up to tactics and positional strategy, plus some good analysis of the most popular openings and a few dozen grandmaster-level games, so by the end of it you'll have a small repertoire of openings that you can build on.
This is the shit. Trust me.
deep fritz 14is as good as it gets (i was wrong, apparently they had to get another programmer and changed engines, houdini 4 seems to be the new king of the genre), if you still run xp on your box you can get chessmaster 10 for free, that game really needs a remake or at least 11 needs a digital version because this is bullshit.