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Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Simulation
Publisher: Ubisoft

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'Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition' - v1.01 Patch Available NOW

by Rainier on Oct. 30, 2007 @ 9:06 a.m. PDT

In Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition, Josh Waitzkin, International Master and eight-time National Chess Champion, coaches you to grasp the basic fundamentals of chess and to master the game through exciting courses and tutorials taken directly from his groundbreaking book, The Art of Learning (Free Press). Then practice your newly learned skills in single-player mode or challenge friends to a fun-spirited competition in multiplayer mode via LAN or Internet.

Get the Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition v1.01 Patch off WP (8mb)

Problems fixed:

Online Play:

  • in tournaments, players are now able to join a match in any circumstances;
  • contradictory messages received by the player in the last minute of an online tournament match no longer appear;
  • the message that informs the users that the game will start automatically disappears now when the user that plays with the white chess pieces moves a chess piece;
  • the game window is now changed when the player chooses to start another game;

Chess variants:

  • players are now able to finish a progressive English match when they try to make more moves than the number of available pieces;

Minigames:

  • the revealed mines remain marked on the board;
  • the points from the last move in a “Fork my fruit” mini-game are now added to the total points in any circumstances;
  • interface improvements;

Puzzles:

  • the game no longer freezes when the player presses repeatedly the "Another puzzle" or "Random puzzle" buttons;

Other problems solved:

  • manual update;
  • various interface bugs;
  • various localization bugs;
  • various tutorial bugs;


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