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Synopsis

Chessmaster includes many features to improve your chess skills, whatever your level. In Chess School, you can learn basic and advanced tactics before challenging computer-controlled opponents in single or multiplayer mode. The game includes a variety of game modes, such as quick play, ranked play, handicap, setup position, and puzzle. Watch each piece attack each other on the checkerboard battlefield.

The PlayStation 2 iteration of the Chessmaster series contains most of the features available in the corresponding PC game - which, in this case, is Chessmaster 9000. You can play practice games (with all the hints and analysis tools available), rated games (your rating changes after each game), puzzles (chess ones, not the "build the picture" kind), learn chess by going through the hundreds of tutorials available in the Pandolfini chess school or watch famous games.

There are, however, some new features in the PS2 version; the most useful is the online mode. The other is the "living world" of the Chessmaster Championships, where the AI ​​ranking also changes as they compete. The last one is more spectacular - a fantasy-themed game mode - orcs versus humans - with animated chess games and a 3D environment. You play chess in a forest, inside a castle and in the desert.

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