The Chessmaster 2000
The Software Toolworks released The Chessmaster 2000 for Amiga in 1986. The underlying Chess engine employed by Chessmaster 2000 was programmed by David Kittinger. Chessmaster graphics were drawn by Art Huff.
Amiga Chessmaster of 1986 employs the Amiga's primitive built-in synthesized speech whereas the Atari ST version of 1987 employs memorable sampled speech by Alpha Systems, such as I'm the Chessmaster... wanna play a game? Your move, Illegal Move, You got me!, Gotcha! and Checkmate! And you lose.
Chessmaster 2000 was one of the first professionally-designed, programmed and presented games to appear on the Amiga 1000. It also happens to be a great, full-featured Chess game that is easy to get into.
Amiga Chessmaster 2000 was distributed on 1x 3.5" 880kB diskette and requires Kickstart 1.1 and 512K of RAM. Atari ST Chessmaster 2000 was distributed on 2x 3.5" 720kB diskettes.
Chessmaster 2000 Features
- 71,000-move library
- 12x levels of play
- Supports player names of up to 11 characters in length
- 3x game modes: Versus Chessmaster, versus Human & Autoplay
- Toggleable Teaching
- Top-down or first-person perspective
- 90° chessboard rotation
- Right-click drop-down expanding menus
- Drag & drop chesspieces
- Sliding chesspieces for computer moves
- Choose side (Black/White)
- Toggleable Easy Mode & Newcomer Style
- Force computer move, Take back last move & Replay move
- Show captured pieces & Show moves so far
- Show Chessmaster thinking & Show best variation
- Set up position
- Notation switchable between algebraic & abbreviated algebraic
- Save/load games and erase savegames
- Toggleable on-screen coordinates & Chess-clock
- Audio switchable between Voice, Music, Bell and Silence
- Analyze game & Solve for Mate
- Print moves so far & Print each move
- Mouse and joystick control
The Chessmaster 2000 IBM PC 1986
The Software Toolworks released The Chessmaster 2000 for IBM PC in 1986. PC Chessmaster 2000 lacks drag and drop via hardware mouse cursor, but it does at least feature sliding chesspieces.
PC Chessmaster 2000 displays in RGB or composite 4-color CGA 320x200 RGB or monochrome 640x400. PC Chessmaster 2000 supports RGB color monitor, color composite monitor, monochrome monitor and liquid crystal display. PC Chessmaster 2000 supports PC Internal Speaker.
PC Chessmaster 2000 was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DD diskette or 1x 5.25" 360kB floppy disks. PC Chessmaster 2000 is 330K in size and consists of 107 files.
PC Chessmaster 2000 v1.07 Color Composite:
PC Chessmaster 2000 v1.07 RGB:
PC Chessmaster 2000 v1.21 RGB:
Indexes:
- Amiga Games Reviews (Index to all Amiga game reviews)
- Computer Game Reviews (Index to all computer game reviews)
- The First REAL Amiga Game
- Best Amiga Games
- History of Computer Games 1976-2024 (Master Index)
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