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Post by james uselton »

What is the best selling chess computer program of all time and which is the best selling chess program today? :)
kgburcham
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Post by kgburcham »

Best Selling Since the Caveman: Chessmaster

Best Selling Since George Bush: Rybka
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fern
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Post by fern »

Get Chessmaster 2100. You cannot go wrong...
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Post by Steve B »

Best selling program in a dedicated computer...
Chess Challenger 7 by the first author ever to release a commercial chess program..Ron Nelson
it sold 600,000+ units

after the Chessmaster PC program it is the biggest selling chess program ever..PC or otherwise

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Post by Anil »

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessmaster

Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.
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Post by swami »

kgburcham wrote:Best Selling Since the Caveman: Chessmaster

Best Selling Since George Bush: Rybka
ChessMaster and ChessMaster, Obviously.

Rybka is strongest and popular now than it was before. But It's popular only to people who regularly play chess.

ChessMaster is popular to anyone and everyone.