Chessmaster 9000, for example, features over 150 different personalities ranging from International Grandmaster strength down to Stanley, who is described as a monkey and plays what are essentially random moves. Individual piece values can also be adjusted.
The King engine allows users to create new playing styles, also called «personalities», by manipulating several dozen different settings, such as King Safety, Pawn Weakness, Randomness, Mobility and others. Another rating list, CCRL, places Chessmaster 11th Edition in 24th place on its December 2009 list. As of May 2008, Chessmaster 9000 remains the most recent version rated by the SSDF. If multiple versions of other engines are stripped out of their list, Chessmaster 9000 ranks 14th among all engines tested. It was introduced in Chessmaster 4000 earlier releases featured a chess engine written by David Kittinger.Īccording to the September 2009 Swedish Chess Computer Association (SSDF) rating list, Chessmaster 9000 has an estimated Elo rating of 2718 on an Athlon-1200 PC. The Chessmaster chess engine is called The King, written by Johan de Koning of the Netherlands. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.
Chessmaster Download Free Full Game is a chess-playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft.
