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Chessmaster 9000 is the latest Macintosh edition of the well-loved computer chess game in which you can learn to play the game or polish your skills against computer-controlled opponents. Hey, Do you know of anyway I can install Chessmaster 9000 on Lion? The installer is PPC, but the game itself is universal (using an update 1.1.3).
- CM 9000 DOES work on OS Mountain Lion. Download the 1.1.3 update from the Feral site. I simply copied the contents of the DVD to my Mac running Mountain Lion and run the game from the file I downloaded from the Feral site.
- Chessmaster 9000 The first edition of this best-selling series of chess simulations to appear on the Mac for several years. Featuring challenging gameplay with unrivalled personal instruction and chess resource material to elevate your game, Chessmaster is a teacher, mentor and ultimate opponent that provides countless hours of interactive.
- Official Webpage (Mac) (The official product page for the Mac version of Chessmaster 9000 on the publisher's website, which provides a profile of the game, patches (including a Universal Binary patch), a desktop wallpaper, and ordering information, among other such things.).
Chessmaster 9000Developers |
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Publishers |
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macOS (OS X) |
Release dates |
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Windows | August 31, 2002 |
macOS (OS X) | July 25, 2004 |
Reception |
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Metacritic | 81 |
Taxonomy |
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Series | Chessmaster |
⤏ Go to series page |
The Chessmaster 2000 | 1986 |
The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 | 1989 |
Chessmaster 3000 | 1991 |
Chessmaster 4000 Turbo | 1993 |
Chessmaster 4000 | 1995 |
Chessmaster 5000 | 1996 |
Chessmaster 5500 | 1997 |
Chessmaster 6000 | 1998 |
Chessmaster 7000 | 1999 |
Chessmaster 8000 | 2000 |
Chessmaster 9000 | 2002 |
Chessmaster 10th Edition | 2004 |
Chessmaster Challenge | 2005 |
Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition | 2007 |
- 2Game data
- 5Audio
- 6Network
- 7Issues fixed
- 8Other information
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Key points
- Online multiplayer services have been discontinued.[1]
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
Chessmaster 9000 Mac Download
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDiscDRM[Note 1]. |
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GOG.com (unavailable) |
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- SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- This game is no longer available digitally.[4]
Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows |
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macOS (OS X) |
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Save game data location[edit]
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
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Video[edit]
Graphics feature | State | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution |
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Multi-monitor |
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Ultra-widescreen |
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4K Ultra HD |
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Field of view (FOV) |
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Windowed |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) |
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Anti-aliasing (AA) |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) |
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60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
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Input[edit]
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping |
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Mouse acceleration |
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Mouse sensitivity |
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Mouse input in menus |
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Mouse Y-axis inversion |
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Controller |
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Controller support |
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Audio[edit]
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
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Network[edit]
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes |
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Local play | 2 |
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LAN play |
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Online play | 2 | Online multiplayer services have been discontinued.[1] |
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Issues fixed[edit]
Piece overlap[edit]
Chessmaster 9000 Mac
In some systems (e.g. win10 x64), pieces may not be drawn correctly in True3D mode. Closer pieces appear to blend into further away pieces.
Use dgVoodoo2 |
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- Download dgvoodoo2.
- Extract dgVoodooSetup.exe, dgVoodoo.conf & D3D8.dll (from the 'MS/x86' folder) and place these files to the installation folder of Chessmaster 9000.
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Mentor opening book[edit]
You may get an error message 'A fatal error occurred when loading the Mentor Opening Book. The application will shut down.'. As found in Windows 7, this may happen when running an account other than the one in which the program was installed. So the administrator account may not show this error when running the program, but when running from a different account such as a limited user account, the error may show since a copy of the Chessmaster 9000 folder is not created in that users profile when running (only the administrator account has a copy).
There are two folders used to store data:
C:Program FilesUbi SoftChessmaster 9000
%USERPROFILE%DocumentsChessmaster 9000
If you receive that error message, Mentor.obk
is missing from one of those two folders. Find it in one of the main Chessmaster subfolders, then copy it to the corresponding folder.
Other information[edit]
API[edit]
System requirements[edit]
Windows |
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Minimum | Recommended |
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Operating system (OS) | 98 | 98, ME, XP |
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Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 450 MHz AMD K6-3 500 MHz |
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System memory (RAM) |
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Hard disk drive (HDD) | 300 MB |
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macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
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Operating system (OS) | 10.2 |
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Processor (CPU) | PowerPC 7xx PowerPC G3 |
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System memory (RAM) | 256 MB |
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Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.3 GB |
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Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM |
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Notes
- ↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10[2] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.01.1PC Multiplayer availability - Chessmaster 9000 - PC - Ubisoft Customer Support Site
- ↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑Removed from GOG?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com