Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition (2008) PC

"Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition" is an extremely popular chess game. And to dispel skeptics about its popularity, you can recall the official figures loudly saying that the publisher "Ubisoft" has been releasing some version of this ancient Indian game almost every year for more than twenty years (on average, it turns out more than one release per year). And the word "some" does not mean the quality of the software, but the platform for which the product was intended (computer, phone, console). The number of copies sold reaches an average of almost a million for the same twelve months of the reporting period.

Features of the 2008 version

Like any other sports simulator (no matter how, and chess is considered a sports discipline), "Chessmaster 2008" is being improved with each subsequent release. The latest version gives such opportunities to the player:

1. Online support, for playing with "live" opponents via the Internet.
2. A training mode that includes chess problems.
3. A wide range of difficulty levels, ten pieces (from monkey to grandmaster).
4. Nine types of figures.
5. Four types of interior.
6. The possibility of including musical accompaniment of three genres (classical, jazz, calm) and sounds of nature.
7. A lot of settings (sound level, saving repetitions of chess games, statistics, achievements, etc.).

There is also a special option that will allow you to overcome the resistance of artificial intelligence in an unfair way. This is enabling "Undo Moves".

Aesthetic component

Even those who do not like to tire themselves with hours-long chess games will be interested in a variety of sound and visual effects.

Everything is simulated, and the rustling movement on the board, and the stylized sound of taking a piece. And the images of chess themselves. They can be in the form of Roman legionnaires, Halloween horror stories, animals, classical forms and several others. This game makes you want to move the pieces even of those who do not know how to play at all. The phrase "chess simulator" fully corresponds to the content o