Chessmaster 8000
The grandmaster of PC chess is back and better than ever! The revamped chess AI plays at grandmaster level, even stronger than before. New chess sets with 16-bit art looks better than ever. Improved "Natural…
Chessmaster 8000 is a video game developed by RAD Game Tools Inc., released 14 November 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Chessmaster 8000 is
Chessmaster 8000 was developed by RAD Game Tools Inc. and released in 2000. It was published by Mindscape, Inc.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Chess Engine: The King.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The grandmaster of PC chess is back and better than ever! The revamped chess AI plays at grandmaster level, even stronger than before. New chess sets with 16-bit art looks better than ever. Improved "Natural Language Advice" help you get into the game and gets kids interested in chess. Special chess lessons by Josh Waitzkin (chess grandmaster) and Bruce Pandolfini (chess author and teacher) are also included.
What it launched against
Chessmaster 8000 launched on 14 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island.
Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.
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