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Online Catalogue > Games > Chess

Chessmaster 9000
Chessmaster 9000 Ref: chessmaster9000

Price:  £18.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Chessmaster® 9000 is the latest version of the World's most popular Chess Program. This 2 Disc version comes complete with a 67 page manual providing comprehensive instructions on how to use this incredibly powerful piece of software.

This package is totally suited to either beginner, improver or advanced players. Beginners/Improvers will benefit from a rapid learning experience using proper opening and endgame strategies. Improvers/Advanced players can quickly strengthen important tactical areas of their game, studying over 800 classic games and enjoy tutorials from celebrated Chess Coach, Bruce Pandolfini and 5 Times Chess Champion, Larry Evans.

Chessmaster 9000 also provides the ultimate opponent for your own games of Chess. Customise your computer opponent with 50 levels. Face the ultimate challenge and face the computer playing at officially rated Grandmaster-level!

Once you've armed yourself, you can even go online and chat with other Chessmaster owners, and play Rated or Unrated games. Chessmaster also keeps record of all you online games and can provide statistics on your performance and results.

This package is so comprehensive that we could go on all day writing about it. We love this program ourselves and unless you've got access to your own Grandmaster, we don't know of a better way to improve your game and have great fun with Chess than this package.
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Chessmaster 6000
Chessmaster 6000 Ref: focusdvdchessmas6000

Price:  £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Chessmaster 6000 is the complete computerised chess resource for all age groups and skill levels. Beginners are patiently instructed and guided through history's most challenging game. Intermediate and expert players can both elevate their level of play and match wits with the most cunning opponent available on a personal computer.
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Fritz For Fun 2 - Championship Chess
Fritz For Fun 2 - Championship Chess Ref: fritzforfunchampions

Price:  £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Fritz is easy to handle but hard to beat. At the 1995 World Computer Chess Tournament in Hong Kong, Fritz defeated the strongest supercomputer and came out victorious.
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Xplosiv Combat Chess
Xplosiv Combat Chess Ref: xplosivcombatchess

Price:  £4.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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The stunning game of tournament level chess played with living, battling characters.

No matter how good you are at chess, you'll have to be a whole lot better when the Black Knight's turning your pawns to green jelly, and the Queen's threatening to deliver a majestic head-butt to your king ...
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Corel Chess
Corel Chess Ref: focusdvdcorelchess

Price:  £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Great interactive play, dynamic views and sizzling graphics combined with exquisite 3D modelled and rotatable boards produce a truly awe-inspiring multimedia chess game. Play the computer, have the computer play against itself or alternatively stage your own championship with opponents over the Internet, via a modem or over a network.
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Virtual Chess 2
Virtual Chess 2 Ref: sovirtualchess2

Price:  £5.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Operating System:
Windows 95 / 98 / ME

Processor: Pentium 200
Hard Drive Space: 20Mb
Memory: 16Mb
Graphics: 800x600x16bit colour
CD-ROM Speed: 4x or faster
Audio: Soundblaster or Compatible
Printer: Not Required

Virtual Chess 2 - The ideal partner for all chess players

Virtual Chess 2 is capable of selective thought and adapting to all levels of play, from a beginner who simulated human errors to world-class level. The program has beaten the runner-up in the 1993 World Championships. Best recorded performance: 2680 ELO.

Interactive Chess Lessons given to you by your chess companion Titus the Fox will teach you all there is to know about chess and help you improve your overall performance.

Virtual Chess 2 boasts an extended library of openings, an updated database with more than 50,000 games by Grand Masters and many chess problems for you to solve.

It's analysis and evaluation skills have been perfected to give you a better insight into and understanding of the game.

It's graphical interface provides 3D real-time display. It also features 12 interchangable styles of chessboard and pieces in 2D and 3D.

Network and Internet games supported via TCP/IP, IPX, modem and serial cable.

 


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LEGO Chess
LEGO Chess Ref: focuslegochess

Price:  £9.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Operating System:
Windows 95 / 98 / ME

Processor: Pentium 166
Hard Drive Space: 200Mb
Memory: 16Mb
Graphics: 800x600x16bit colour
CD-ROM Speed: 4x or faster
Audio: Soundblaster or Compatible
Printer: Required to print manual

LEGO Chess - Plan, Move, Battle & Win!

  • Do battle on special chess sets starring famous mini-figures from two major LEGO themes: Western and Pirates
  • Alternativly, play with a traditional chess set built from LEGO bricks
  • View the amazing 3D action from an infinite number of angles
  • Capture your opponents pieces and enjoy dozens of cartoon animations
  • Have fun, even if you're a beginner: the crazy LEGO King makes learning to play easy.
  • Check out the tutorial section - it's written by a professional chess teacher
  • Challenge friends to a game on the local network or even over a modem-to-modem link, Local Area Network or the Internet

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Chess Champion
Chess Champion Ref: skchesschampion

Price:  £4.99 Including VAT at 17.5%


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Operating System:
Windows 95 / 98 / ME / 2000

Processor: Pentium 100
Hard Drive Space: 60Mb
Memory: 32Mb
Graphics: 800x600x16bit colour
CD-ROM Speed: 4x or faster
Audio: Soundblaster or Compatible
Printer: Not Required

If you want a game of chess with a difference, Purple's Chess Champion is for you! Chess Champion is designed to play in the style of Russian world champion Mikhail Tal, famous for his daring and attacking style of play. Rather than searching for the best move with raw computing power, Chess Champion considers each position based on a large amount of chess knowledge. The result id that Chess Champion emulates human characteristics, playing naturally and aggresively.

Features include:

  • Highly sophisticated and customisable user interface
  • Supports every form of network play with an intergrated interface to both free and commercial internet chess servers
  • Engine written by a Master
  • A vast 510Mb library of opening moves and end game table bases
  • Suitable for beginners and experts alike

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