In July 1986, CM became the first commercially available software to win the Personal Computer class of the United States Open Computer Chess Championship in Mobile, Alabama. USCF rated it over 2000 in reality, it is unknown at what strength it plays because the testings were done on slow 1980s computers. The game had a chess engine (without mouse control) written by David Kittinger and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo. It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS. First published by Software Country, and soon after by The Software Toolworks. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Macintosh, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, NES, SNES, Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Xbox, Xbox 360Ĭhessmaster (originally The Chessmaster) was a chess-playing video game series, which is owned and developed by Ubisoft.
