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Subject: Re: CHESSMASTER 2000

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:39:02 12/31/01

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On December 30, 2001 at 13:36:28, John Merlino wrote:

>On December 29, 2001 at 21:37:43, Gogi Cviak wrote:
>
>>NO, i am not confusing people., people dont understand when they see black and
>>white,
>>
>>I said chessmaster 2000 NOT 8000, i have 8000, but I know a French UBI software
>>company made that, THE LATEST VERSION EVER CAME OUT IN 1991,
>>
>>first one for public was in 86!
>>
>
>You obviously have no idea what you are talking about, nor do you know who I am
>(although that's ok, because I never told you). So I still say that you are
>confused (or, at least, are having a difficult time getting your message
>understood).
>
>There is nobody on this board who knows more about the Chessmaster software than
>myself. I promise you that Ubi Soft had nothing to do with Chessmaster until 9
>months ago, when they bought The Learning Company. Therefore, it is impossible
>that Ubi Soft made a version of Chessmaster in 1991.
>
>So, to reiterate. The oldest version of Chessmaster (which was called
>Chessmaster 2000) was released in 1984 for several different computer systems.
>Then came (my years might be a little off here):
>
>Chessmaster 2100 (1988)
>Chessmaster 3000 (1990)
>Chessmaster 4000 (1993)
>Chessmaster 5000 (1996)
>Chessmaster 5500 (1997)
>Chessmaster 6000 (1998)
>Chessmaster 7000 (1999)
>Chessmaster 8000 (2000)
>
>Of course, I am only talking about PC versions here. The older versions of
>Chessmaster were released for many different platforms (Apple, Amiga, Commodore,
>Mac, Playstation, Nintendo, GameBoy). The most recent version of Chessmaster for
>a computer that was not for the PC is Chessmaster 6000 Mac, which was released
>in 1998.
>
>Therefore, once again, I ask you which version of Chessmaster you are looking
>for.
>
>jm

I was slightly incorrect about my dates for the release of two of the first
three versions (these dates represent the release of the PC version, BTW).

Chessmaster 2000 -- 1986 (Gogi was right!)
Chessmaster 3000 -- 1991

jm



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