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Chessmaster Challenge

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Chessmaster Challenge
Chessmaster Challenge cover
Developers
PlayFirst
Release dates
Windows March 7, 2005
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Controls Point and select
Genres Chess
Series Chessmaster
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Chessmaster Challenge\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/37200/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Chessmaster Challenge\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/37200/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
800x600 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Switched by button in lower right corner or Alt+ Enter. 800x600 only.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
32 fps, can be higher during mouse movement.[1]
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keyboard is not used during gameplay.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Only master volume and mute are available.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

"Failed to unpack data" error while trying to download Basic Chess Concepts

Modify config.ini to replace broken url with one from internet archive.[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open the config.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Using the Find function (Ctrl+F), search for "DownloadTutorials http://www.playfirst.com/go/chessmaster_tutorials". There will be exactly one entry.
  4. Replace the text with "DownloadTutorials http://web.archive.org/web/20070702054217if_/http://www.playfirst.com:80/go/chessmaster_tutorials".
  5. Save the file.
  6. Launch the game.
  7. Go to Learning Academy and download additional lessons.
  8. Backup %PROGRAMDATA%\Chessmaster Challenge\ folder and restore it later to skip above steps after future game reinstalls.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/37200/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (37200) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2019-07-22
  2. Steam Community Discussions - last accessed on 2019-07-22