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ChessMaster 9000 for Mac Goes Golden Master; Out by Xmas
by , 1:00 AM EST, December 5th, 2004
British Mac gamer maker Feral Interactive announced Friday the Mac OS X incarnation of its strategy game ChessMaster 9000 has gone golden master and will ship before Christmas.
ChessMaster 9000 has over 800 classic games, including the best of 2001 and 2002 Grand Master games. Features include on-screen guides to learn the best opening chess moves, a new and improved chess engine that allows players to compete against more than 150 different opponents, from beginning to Grandmaster level, 30 new chess sets, a variety of online, multiplayer options , including rated chess games and chess games just for fun, and the new 'Blunder Alert' feature that immediately notifies a player of better moves when ChessMaster you move you pieces into danger.
Around since 1986 with over five million copies sold, the game has not been available for the Mac platform for over five years. It can now be pre-ordered online for US$40.
Observer Comments
Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:54 am Subject: and the answer is ...
A lot! The more, the better
Seriously, there a few nice chess programs for OS X with a GUI (sigmachess, Vector Chess) but these are no top chess programs. Then there are some programs that you can use with xbord under X11 (ruffian, crafty, gothmog), but a state of the art program like chessmaster with a professional GUI is a welcome addition to my chess program collection !
Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:17 pm Subject: I'm glad to see this chess program
I have the PC verison and I'm glad to see it being ported to Mac OS X. I am getting rid of all my computer games except for 3. Hoyle Casino, Warcraft III, and Chesmaster 9000. The first two because they come with OS X support right out of the box and the other because I want to learn how to play chess to become a better strategic thinker.
I'm planning on switching sometime in the new year when I have the money. (Which might be a while.) I like knowing that Chessmaster 9000 is available on OS X, so I can keep training on the same program on both OS'es.
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