Grand Master ChessComments on:

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:13:49 +0000

Terrible. The graphics are pretty, but who needs dozens of chess piece skins? The space hogging intro movie gets annoying because after the first time you watch it, you just want to play. The AI is competent enough but tends to forget some basic rules. The AI has moved pawns as if they were queens, move any piece though others as if they had the leaping ability of knights, and sometimes just move nothing from one space to another. (recording that, ‘nothing’ moved g5-a7 in the game history window) Besides usually freezing after something like this, the game won’t start about 1/4 of the time the first time it’s clicked. It complains about a corrupt MCI file or something like that.
Much better programs are out this.
This bombed.

By: R. Lloyd Nelson

R. Lloyd Nelson — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:00:54 +0000

This was the first program I ever downloaded from this site…and it will be the last. I just got around to playing my first game with the program. When I tried to resign, it locked up so badly I had to shut down my computer. Nuts!

By: gustaw07

gustaw07 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:46:47 +0000

Yes is very good

By: Belgian Dude

Belgian Dude — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:52:01 +0000

It’s a chess game made by someone who doesn’t really know the game nor loves it.

Lots of pomp and circumstance but when all said and done it sucks.
See comments 35 as well as 123.
In short: bloated, badly programmed and clearly without knowledge of the conventions in chess notation and an underdeveloped chess engine.

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:20:20 +0000

It may have been in the wrong place but I’m certainly glad I downloaded it. It is an awesome game.

By: Kolkata_rocks

Kolkata_rocks — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:34:13 +0000

Downloading this game in a dial up connection is not worth the pain. You will get far better games both in terms of graphics and quality for far less. Try shredder online or the demo version. shredder is far better.

By: Claudio fernandes

Claudio fernandes — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:48:20 +0000

I am one more unfortunate person who missed the finish line by a few minutes after two failed attempts trying to download in Opera, but succeeded in Mozila Firefox. Now I am left with useless setup file which doesn’t allow me even to the trial version.

Does anybody know how to access the trial version, so atleast I will be emotionally satisfied for getting rewarded for the pains I took for download such a huge beast on dial-up connection.

Thanking u in anticipation. Regards Claudio Ferns – Goa

P.S. I would suggest GAOTD to give grace period of atleast 40% of the download size which will go a long way in helping people with dial-up connection. Thanks

By: Poor Pensioner

Poor Pensioner — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:03:21 +0000

I would like to say on behalf of myself and other people who are unable to get broadband, who have to use dialup. It takes about five minutes per Megabyte to download a program.. so Grand Master Chess at 175Mb would take about 15 hours. I started downloading about 14:30pm
estimating a finish time of 05:30am.
Unfortunately the download speed was slower than usual and I was unable to finish until 10:00am.
Having invested the time and effort, I feel so disappointed to be unsuccessful getting this desirable program, only to be left with
175Mb of debris to dispose of.
I was quite bemused that you you were still offering to proceed to
the download page just 30 mins before the offer is closed.
Perhaps one of the GAOTD team could find an inspired improvement.

By: Desperado

Desperado — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:31:25 +0000

Couldn’t even try it… attempted to install it repeatedly with over 30 minutes time to spare before expiration, but repeatedly received the expiration of offer notice… not cool GOTD!

By: Tech 4 Novices

Tech 4 Novices — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:17:59 +0000

Great thing. I will definitely feature the software in my games section of my learnings blog.