"Chessmaster 10th Edition" is a board video game. It was first released in 2004 as a three disc PC CD-ROM title by Ubisoft. In the European marketplace, the game received an age guidance rating which deemed the title appropriate for ages three and above. The system requirements to run the game are minimal by today's standards but include: System: Pentium III 450 MHz or equivalent RAM: 128 MB Video Memory: 4 MB Hard Drive Space: 540 MB Chessmaster has been a definitive title in terms of Chess video games. Since 1986, the game has received several updates and releases for different consoles and systems. The 10th Edition for ...  Read the complete review

I often wonder how Chess games sell so well. It seems to me that the Chessmaster series only has too target buyers; those who play chess extremely well and those who wish to play chess extremely well. No doubt, there are a lot of people who don't fit into those categories and probably wouldn't buy Chessmaster and yet it has sold well enough to make it to the 10th iteration. Frankly, regardless of the size of the consumerbase, Chessmaster deserves it. The basic premise of Chessmaster is this: Provide the buyer with a series of Chess tutorials beginning with the basics and incrementally increasing until the player can then play against opponents. Then ...  Read the complete review