♦ Title: Chessmaster 4000 ♦ Publisher: The Learning Company ♦ Published: 1994 ♦ Genre: Chess ♦ Format: Windows 3.0/Windows 3.1/Windows 3.11 ♠ Recording Device/Software: Avermedia Gamer HD C985 PCI-Express ♠ Recording Resolution: 1280 x 720 @ 30 fps I got this game with my Pentium 100 mhzs computer back in 1994. My mother bought me this computer at a small computer store, it came with this game, Mavis Beacon teaches typing, and a encyclopedia on a compact disk. It had Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.22 installed on it. I liked the soundtrack for this game so much, I copied the midi files. Playing against the computer on hard was almost impossible, because the computer algorithm can find out all the possibilities of each move. For a human being, unless you are a real chess master can't see that far. The opening moves in chess will pretty much determine the outcome of the game. Chess masters practice this for hours and hours in a day. This game was different from other chess games, because it had so many variations on the kinds of chessboards you could pick to the chess pieces you can use. In other words, it was very customizable. The Chessmaster franchise started in 1986 with Chessmaster 2000, and ended with Chessmaster XI or Chessmaster 11 in 2007. I never played other renditions of Chessmaster, but this one.
