Chessmaster 8000

aka: Guoji Xiangqi Dashi 8000
Moby ID: 3185
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The grandmaster of PC chess is back and better than ever! The revamped chess AI plays at grandmaster level, even stronger than before. New chess sets with 16-bit art looks better than ever. Improved "Natural Language Advice" help you get into the game and gets kids interested in chess. Special chess lessons by Josh Waitzkin (chess grandmaster) and Bruce Pandolfini (chess author and teacher) are also included.

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  • 国际象棋大师8000 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Chessmaster 8000 uses the XBoard chess AI protocol, and thus can use any XBoard-compliant AI engine as a chess "personality" in the program. See http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/mann/engines.html for a list of XBoard-compliant chess "engines".

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Game added by Kasey Chang.

Additional contributors: Xantheous, Unicorn Lynx, Patrick Bregger.

Game added January 31, 2001. Last modified January 22, 2024.