The New Chessmaster

[menniepals]

Hi! I would like to know if the latest Chessmaster can take UCI engines. Does it have tutorials for children? Is it child friendly? I don't care how strong it is. The major thing is it should be user friendly to a 5 year old and be able to take the Fruit engines. Thanks, Alfred

[AdminX]

Chessmaster 11 does not have UCI support, you will need wb2uc1 adapter to get UCI engines working under Chessmaster. I think it is child friendly and some of the tutorials will suite a child pretty well with room for growth as well.

However the program still has <<LOTS of BUGS>>, Online as well as in the Tutorials. If I were you I would go for Chessmaster 10th Edition. Better value and price for a child.

[menniepals]

That I will do. Thanks, Alfred

[Kirk]

Chessmaster 11 does not have UCI support, you will need wb2uc1 adapter to get UCI engines working under Chessmaster. I think it is child friendly and some of the tutorials will suite a child pretty well with room for growth as well.

However the program still has <<LOTS of BUGS>>, Online as well as in the Tutorials. If I were you I would go for Chessmaster 10th Edition. Better value and price for a child.

Hi Ted,

What are the GUI improvements in Chessmaster over version 10? From what I have read it seems the only benefit of 11 is getting the engine. I have been hesitant to upgrade.

thanks in advance,

Kirk

[AdminX]

Chessmaster 11 does not have UCI support, you will need wb2uc1 adapter to get UCI engines working under Chessmaster. I think it is child friendly and some of the tutorials will suite a child pretty well with room for growth as well.

However the program still has <<LOTS of BUGS>>, Online as well as in the Tutorials. If I were you I would go for Chessmaster 10th Edition. Better value and price for a child.

Hi Ted,

What are the GUI improvements in Chessmaster over version 10? From what I have read it seems the only benefit of 11 is getting the engine. I have been hesitant to upgrade.

thanks in advance,

Kirk

To be honest, I don't really see any GUI improvements. Chessmaster 11 does do a better job of rendering the graphics. I believe the difference between CM10 and CM11 is that CM10 is built around DirectX 9.0 and CM11 is built using DirectX 9.0c and CM11 does not support OpenGL anymore.

[Kirk]

Thanks

Surprising. On the Chessmaster Forums I saw many suggestions made over the past couple of years for the new version. Sounds like they were mostly ignored

[menniepals]

This is really a sad story on one of my favorite chess programs. I used to buy them. The last version I bought was CM 9. The first was CM 5 and I remember there was so much interest about the program CM 6 and threads on this program were so abundant in this site at that time. I bought this one, as well. CM 7 was a disappointment. CM 8 and CM 9 were good. I will get CM 10 but not CM 11 as you advised.

[AdminX]

Here is just one such bug in ChessMaster 11:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 3911017516

Now what's wrong with this picture???

[Tony Thomas]

Who moved last? Looks like one of the Kings are going to be captured.

[Guerrero]

You need Polyglot adapter para to use UCI engines in Chessmaster GUI.
I may send you Fruit adapted if you desire it.

P.D. Wb2Uci is an adapter to use Winboard engines in Fritz GUI.