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Chessmaster
Genre(s)	Chess
Developer(s)	David Kittinger, Kathe and Dan Spracklen, Johan de Koning
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft Feral Interactive(Mac OS X)^[1]
Platform(s)	MS Windows, MS-DOS, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, PlayStation, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2
Original release	1986–2007

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Chessmaster is a chess-playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.^[2]

Since Chessmaster 3000 for Windows 3.x the moves are explained with voice output.

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Timeline[edit]

1986: The Chessmaster series started with The Chessmaster 2000 first published by Software Country, and soon after by The Software Toolworks. It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS. The game had a chess engine written by David Kittinger and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo. USCF rated it 2100; in reality, it is unknown at what strength it plays because the testings were done on slow 1980s computers. 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.^[3]
1988: The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 was published for the Apple IIGS.
1989: The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 was published for DOS.
1990: The Chessmaster was published for the NES, and the Game Boy.
1990: The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 was published for the Amiga.
1991: The Chessmaster was published for the SNES.
1991: The Chessmaster was published for the Game Gear.
1991: Chessmaster 3000 was published for DOS, Windows 3.x.
1993: Chessmaster 4000 Turbo was published for Windows 3.x.
1993: Chessmaster 3000 was published for Macintosh.
1995: Chessmaster 4000 was published for Windows 95.
1995: Chessmaster 3D for PlayStation had the Chessmaster 4000 engine.^[4]
1996: Chessmaster 4000 was published for Macintosh.
1996: Mindscape publishes Chessmaster 5000 for Windows 95.
1997: Chessmaster 5500 was published for Windows 95.
1998: Chessmaster 6000 was published for Windows 95 and Windows 98 and Macintosh.
1999: Chessmaster 7000 was published for Windows 98 and Chessmaster II was published for PlayStation.^[5]
2000: Chessmaster 8000 was published for Windows 98.
2002: Ubisoft publishes Chessmaster 9000 for Windows 98/ME/XP
2004: Chessmaster 10th Edition was published for Windows XP.
2004: Chessmaster 9000 was published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.^[1]
30 October 2007: The current version, Chessmaster XI, was released for Windows XP/Vista (titled Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition) and Nintendo DS (titled Chessmaster: The Art of Learning), and 12 February 2008 for PlayStation Portable (also titled Chessmaster: The Art of Learning). It includes numerous tutorials by International MasterJoshua Waitzkin and GM Larry Christiansen for players of all skill levels.^[6] Also contains the minigames Fork my fruit (which practices forking), Minesweeper (practices safety of pieces) and the tail game (where the player chooses a long-range chess piece, then trying to make a long tail using captured pieces, and avoiding the enemy pieces to capture the main piece or tail parts).

Chess engine[edit]

Chessmaster 10th Edition

The Chessmasterchess engine is called The King, written by Johan de Koning of the Netherlands. 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 second edition had an engine designed by Kate and Dan Spracklen of Sargon fame.

According to the September 2009 Swedish Chess Computer Association (SSDF) rating list, Chessmaster 9000 has an estimated Elo rating of 2718 on an Athlon-1200 PC.^[7] If multiple versions of other engines are stripped out of their list, Chessmaster 9000 ranks 14th among all engines tested. As of May 2008, Chessmaster 9000 remains the most recent version rated by the SSDF.

The latest version, Chessmaster 11th Edition, was released in 2007, and has lagged behind more current chess engines. CCRL places it 84th on its February 2017 list.^[8]

The King engine allows users to create new playing styles, also called 'personalities', by manipulating several dozen different settings, such as King Safety, Pawn Weakness, Randomness, Mobility and others. Individual piece values can also be adjusted. Chessmaster 9000, for example, features over 150 different personalities ranging from International Grandmaster strength down to Stanley, a chimpanzee who, in most situations, plays completely random moves.

The personality feature has inspired many amateur computer chess enthusiasts to attempt to find more optimum personalities. In Chessmaster 10th Edition, the creation of new personalities has been made easier than before.

Notable games[edit]

Larry Christiansen vs. Chessmaster 9000 (September 2002), annotated at GameKnot: Game 1, Game 2, Game 3, Game 4

Chessmaster won the four-game match against Christiansen held in September 2002, by a score of 2½-1½.^[9] The Chessmaster program was operated by John Merlino, the Project Manager of Chessmaster at the time of the match. Four different personalities were used in the match, the first three of which were based on famous human Grandmasters: Alexander Alekhine, Bobby Fischer, and Mikhail Botvinnik. The final game of the match used the default 'Chessmaster' personality. Christiansen won the first game, lost the second and third games, and the fourth game resulted in a draw.

Platforms[edit]

To date, various versions of Chessmaster have appeared on Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64, DOS, PC, Macintosh, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Sega Genesis (as a Sega Channel exclusive), Sega Game Gear, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and mobile phones.^[10] Early Macintosh versions Chessmaster 3000 and 4000 were developed by Sebastian Rapport and Troy Heere that leveraged the Kittinger and de Koning engines respectively.^{[citation needed]} Later Macintosh versions were ported by Feral Interactive, a

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