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Chess Mates $29.99 Item #CM801
For beginners ages 4 and up!
Now from ChessMate.com!
Wigby the Wizard brings the wonderful world of chess to you with wild sound effects and crazy animations! Wigby is aided by Wanda the Magic Wand, as well his faithful sidekick (the Flying Carpet) and a whole host of animated chess pieces that fall through trap doors in the chessboard when they are captured.
Created by the designers of "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" -- and built with "all ages" of young chess players in mind -- Chess Mates is a great way to learn and develop your children's or student's love of chess -- and adult beginners love it too!
Complete with puzzles, tutorials, and a "beginner-friendly" playing engine, Chess Mates makes the game of chess fun for all!
And -- as if that were not enough -- every player will be thrilled when they get to print out a beautiful certificate of congratulations upon beating the Chess Mates playing-engine for the first time at each one of 10 levels of skill.
For: Windows 3.X, 95, 98, ME; comes with our manual install pamphlet for Win XP and 2000.
ChessMates also runs on older Mac systems, and in "Classic Mode" on the newer Macs.
Requires 8 MB RAM, CD ROM drive, SVGA 256 color, and a mouse.
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Seirawan Pro Chess DVD $39.99 Item #CM809
The Royal Game of Chess. Simple to learn yet tough to master, chess has been played for centuries. It teaches you to think logically, to plan ahead, and to accept the consequences of your actions. A gymnasium of the mind. As former US Champion and GM Larry Evans says in his special guest appearance, "Chess is food for the brain. It prepares you for life." Chess improves work in school as well as grades. Many studies have proven that children attain higher reading levels, math levels, and greater learning abilities as a result of playing chess. For all these reasons and more, chess playing kids do better at school and therefore have a better chance to succeed in life. Chess helps develop logical thinking patterns, improves concentration, and inspires self-motivation. It also helps to teach independence and resourcefulness.
Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan (Yaz) -- who has been the United States Chess Champion several times and a candidate for the World Chess Championship -- is a popular, articulate player with a unique gift for gab and for making complex chess strategies easy to understand. Almost 4 hours of Chess Instruction on one DVD!
For: Windows 3.X, 95, 98, ME, XP and 2000.
Runs on older Mac systems, and in "Classic Mode" on newer Macs.
Requires 8 MB RAM, CD ROM drive, SVGA 256 color, and a mouse.
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MacEssentia Database $19.99 Item #CM810
The Mac version of ESSENTIA duplicates most of the features of its Windows counterpart with a new playing engine. The one million game ESSENTIA database appears on the CD in ChessBase format.
This allows users with the Mac edition of ChessBase to access the database directly from the CD-ROM.
For: Macintosh systems, old and new. Runs on newer systems in "Classic Mode".
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Master Chess 3000 $29.99 Item #CM814
Built around the ever-popular GM strength CRAFTY 2613 engine, Master Chess 3000 contains a plethora of feature to help you enjoy and improve your game. Time controls include the Fischer Clock mode, and file compatibility allows PGN import / export.
You can even import EPD positions for analysis by Crafty.
Master Chess 3000 also features a 1.4 million game database (thru July 2002), including a statistical tree of 10,000 grandmaster games from 2000-2002 and the opening books of several of today's top players.
For: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, 2000, XP and NT. Requires Pentium 75 CPU, 12 MB RAM, 4 MB HDD space, CD ROM drive, VGA graphics, and an MS-compatible mouse.
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