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''Chessmaster'' is a chess-playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold .〔(Chessmaster 9000 Review )〕 ==Timeline== *1986: The ''Chessmaster'' series started with ''The Chessmaster 2000'' by The Software Toolworks. It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS. The game had a chess engine written by David Kittinger, and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo USCF; in reality, it plays at approximately 1550-1600 Elo (1750-1800 USCF).〔(Chessmaster 2000 rating )〕 In July of that year it became the first commercially available software to win the Personal Computer class of the United States Open Computer Chess Championship in Mobile, Alabama. *1988: ''The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100'' was published for the Apple IIGS. *1989: ''The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100'' was published for DOS. *1990: ''The Chessmaster'' was published for the NES, and the Game Boy. *1990: ''The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100'' was published for the Amiga. *1991: ''The Chessmaster'' was published for the SNES. *1991: ''Chessmaster 3000'' was published for DOS, Windows 3.x. *1993: ''Chessmaster 4000 Turbo'' was published for Windows 3.x. *1993: ''Chessmaster 3000 '' was published for Macintosh. *1995: ''Chessmaster 4000'' was published for Windows 95. *1995: ''Chessmaster 3D'' for PlayStation had the ''Chessmaster 4000'' engine.〔(Chessmaster 3d Review )〕 *1996: ''Chessmaster 4000'' was published for Macintosh. *1996: ''Chessmaster 5000'' was published for Windows 95. *1997: ''Chessmaster 5500'' was published for Windows 95. *1998: ''Chessmaster 6000'' was published for Windows 95 and Windows 98 and Macintosh. *1999: ''Chessmaster 7000'' was published for Windows 98 and ''Chessmaster II'' was published for PlayStation.〔(Chessmaster II ) at GameFAQs. Accessed March 24, 2013.〕 *2000: ''Chessmaster 8000'' was published for Windows 98. *2002: ''Chessmaster 9000'' was published for Windows 98/ME/XP *2004: ''Chessmaster 10th Edition'' was published for Windows XP. *2004: ''Chessmaster 9000'' was published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.〔 *30 October 2007: The current version, Chessmaster XI, was released for PC (titled ''Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition'') and Nintendo DS (titled ''Chessmaster: The Art of Learning''), and 12 February 2008 for PlayStation Portable (also titled ''Chessmaster: The Art of Learning''). It includes numerous tutorials by International Master Joshua Waitzkin for players of all skill levels.〔()〕 Also contains the minigames ''Fork my fruit'' (which practices forking), ''Minesweeper'' (practices safety of pieces) and the tail game (where the player chooses a long-range chess piece, then trying to make a long tail using captured pieces, and avoiding the enemy pieces to capture the main piece or tail parts). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chessmaster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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