SIMON & SCHUSTER Extreme Chess

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Product Features

• Based on Fritz, the chess engine that defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov & IBM's Deep Blue
• Get instant in-depth critical analysis of your every move
• A built-in tournament clock and time clock help you drill in real time
• A 50,000 game database, annotated by grand masters such as Kasparov and Fischer, is fully accessible by player name, tournament year, annotator, ranking and more
• Further expand the database by downloading games from the Internet

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007BGU3
• Item Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,178 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Train with the reigning world computer chess champion

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strong Chess Engines!!, September 27, 2003

By 

Michael Agnos "beatnik/troublemaker" (Hemet, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SIMON & SCHUSTER Extreme Chess (CD-ROM)

Extreme Chess contains two chess programs: Fritz 3.01 (Hong Kong) and Fritz 4.01. The Hong Kong version won the Computer World Championship in 1995 in Hong Kong. Fritz 4.01 is even stronger! Both of them have beaten human Grandmasters. Extreme has a built-in clock so you can play blitz chess at any time limit with or w/o time increments. But good luck....Or set the clock for tournament chess and *really* get crushed. This is a very entertaining and STRONG chess game. Highly recommended. Extreme works fine on Windows XP, by the way.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong program but, June 2, 2011

By 

Ferdi - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SIMON & SCHUSTER Extreme Chess (CD-ROM)

Extreme Chess has a very strong program. Play it on a regular basis and will prepare you well to be a challenging contender. I played it on Windows 95/98, 2000, XP but I have not been able to make it work on Windows 7. This is very frustrating because I am not planning to go back to previous Windows just to play Extreme Chess. There might be a way to make it work on Windows 7 but I have not been able to find it myself. It would be much appreciated if someone else who was successful in achieving this will explain how to do it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great sparing engine... not the best... My first one engine, October 20, 2008

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Norberto Martel Gutierrez "Franco Martel" (Honduras) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: SIMON & SCHUSTER Extreme Chess (CD-ROM)

This is a old product, i bougth 10 year ago, nice sparing.
This one is a old version of Fritz, the ELo of this software is 2300 or 2400 USCF. Internacional Master style game.

This software has a nice methods to rank your opponent by ELO.

If you are a beginer, start with this, you will not regret, the only thing is the poor render of the pieces (ten years ago)

Parents, buy this for your kids, this program will prepare you son for Fritz software.
Bye