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Chessmaster 10th Edition JC Review
User Submitted Chessmaster 10th Edition JC Reviews
Date: 2008-11-29
CD protection is a nuisance
I have nothing against people protecting their product but the CD protection on this product made it virtually unusable for me. I installed it on a laptop that does not have a perminant CD drive, the laptop is small and good for use when travelling. Whenever I attempt to use the product it always requests me to load the install CD -- this apparently is a copyright protection mechanism that is described in the user manual. There are claims in the documentation that it is possible to get it to only ask once every so many attempts to play but for me it always asked even if I did a "full" install of all components. Its probably a nice product if you can use it but it didn't work t all for me.
Date: 2008-11-18
Mediocre game from a company with bad tech support
I recently purchase and installed Chessmaster 10th edition.
This game takes 1.6GB space on hard disk and requires keeping CD in the drive or it doesn't start. According to Ubisoft tech support, it only works for one account- administrator who installed the game.
Game has some obvious bugs, such as pop up windows sometimes stay on top of chess board and you can't see the game. Tech support said this issue may have been solved in their updates, but problem is that updating doesn't work and I was unable to resolve the issue with Ubisoft tech support. Their help is laughable: Update drivers, defragment disk, empty windows Temp directory, and empty recycle bin. None of that had any affect on updates.
Buyer be ware.
Chessmaster 10th Edition JC
Date: 2008-10-13
media quality is suspect
I have really benefitted from the instructional materials in Chessmaster 8000, but it is very unstable on Windows XP. So I was very eager to give this 10th Edition a try, now that the price is so low. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked for me. My 6-year-old laptop could not read disc 3 during the installation, so I obtained another copy. This time, two of the three discs were unreadable. My laptop reads other discs just fine, and my other computer (a hefty mid-tower desktop machine) seems to read Chessmaster 10th Edition OK. I guess I can't entirely rule out a problem with my laptop's drive. However, looking at the software CDs, I suspect that Ubisoft has been using very low quality discs. They contain a lot of speckling, scratches, and other surface defects which can be felt with my finger. My laptop's DVD+RW drive might not be the best at handling these things compared with what's in my desktop computer, but it seems clear to me that something's wrong with these discs - not the drive.
Since I want this primarily for my laptop, I'm going to try to return this software again. I don't think getting this to work is worth a hardware upgrade. Perhaps I'll try the next edition instead.
Date: 2008-09-30
great chess game
This is the classic Chess tutorial and adversary - and this edition does not disappoint. Intuitive interface is easy to navigate, tutorials bring a player of any level up to speed, the sophisticated adjustable skill rating for the computer opponent is great, the advanced attacking tutorials are useful, the puzzles are good breaks for work/studying. Overall an amazing value for just ten dollars. Buy if you want to improve your chessgame or if you want a new challenge.
Date: 2008-08-03
Game is great, packaging is misleading.
First, this is not a review of the game, just the packaging and contents. This "JC", or jewel case version, shows on the cover that it contains a DVD Rom and requires only 120MB of hard drive space. The package actually contained 3 CDs, the install routine copied about 1.6 GB worth of files onto the hard drive it and requires the CD to be inserted to play. This wouldn't have been a showstopper if it had been stated in the product description, but you may wish to look for a package with the DVD.
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