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NamelessBeggar

Hi does anyone have mods installed on their pc from the old Chessmaster pc game? The ones that change your chess set... all the other links on the web are dead now.

If you could share it I would greatly appreciate it!

EscherehcsE
NamelessBeggar wrote:

Hi does anyone have mods installed on their pc from the old Chessmaster pc game? The ones that change your chess set... all the other links on the web are dead now.

If you could share it I would greatly appreciate it!

I think the link for the CM11 official chess sets still works on this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161105155004/https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/341421-Chessmaster-Grandmaster-Edition-Downloads-Forums

 

NamelessBeggar

Unfortunately all the sites are down with the custom chess sets only one that is working has 2 sets Chess sets created by Qix77

I spend an hour on the web searching, typing different names but all to no avail.

NamelessBeggar

Wait nevermind one site is working strangely after a couple of refresh. Thank u very much kind sir!

EscherehcsE

Yeah, apparently the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine isn't working very well right now. It's requiring frequent refreshes.

I also found a link for the CM10th misimatt sets:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090221072636/http://www.freeweb.hu/misimatt/index.html

Let me know if you can't download any of them. I found all of them on my Windows hard drive (except for the onwardz set).

NamelessBeggar

Not working for me unfortunately

EscherehcsE
NamelessBeggar wrote:

Not working for me unfortunately

Is it just the misimatt sets that you can't download?

Just to give you an idea of the problems I'm having in general downloading the files - The misimatt page comes up OK for me, but when I try to download one of the sets, I often get a message like "Secure connection failed - Try again". I might have to try up to 5 or 6 times before it works.

NamelessBeggar

Ok works now.  Weird that the page has to be reloaded dozen of times. Anyway you are the real MVP

EscherehcsE
NamelessBeggar wrote:

Ok works now.  Weird that the page has to be reloaded dozen of times. Anyway you are the real MVP

Great! Glad I could help.

Shaykh

Hello everyone! I created several new and beautiful chess sets for Chesssmaster XI and a blog to share it with you. Link: https://cmawesome.blogspot.com/. Don't worry, it is just for love of the game. It's a nonprofit work, there are no ads from my side, the blog is completely clean. The files are hosted on a free Mediafire account, so there may be some advertising as part of their business model, unrelated to me.

Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎄😉♟

NamelessBeggar

Thank u so much for this. I still play chessmaster to this day frequently and this is a perfect Christmas present for me! Very good job!

krazeechess

What is chessmaster?

Xenius_YKK

It is a Chessgame, published by Ubisoft, version 11 being the last, published in 2007, unfortunately, discontinued. Would love a new version as a beginner/hobbyist.

NamelessBeggar
Xenius_YKK wrote:

It is a Chessgame, published by Ubisoft, version 11 being the last, published in 2007, unfortunately, discontinued. Would love a new version as a beginner/hobbyist.

 

Yeah i wish they did a remaster version. With the chess boom right now it could be profitable. Hd graphics, better engine but leave everything else as is.

EscherehcsE
NamelessBeggar wrote:
Xenius_YKK wrote:

It is a Chessgame, published by Ubisoft, version 11 being the last, published in 2007, unfortunately, discontinued. Would love a new version as a beginner/hobbyist.

 

Yeah i wish they did a remaster version. With the chess boom right now it could be profitable. Hd graphics, better engine but leave everything else as is.

Don't hold your breath - Even the guy who maintains the Chessmaster forums says that it's never going to happen.

Xenius_YKK

Yes, too bad really. I remember the series from my childhood, still have, and use version 11.

syousef

Some chess sets here I'd modded for my daughter. Pinks, Purples, Reds and Oranges.

Images: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IOprinOXOZEui_yLKSBJgf67ImhgKNC0/view?usp=sharing

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GOhwc20m_lq-NPwVxuW5IuFuVHDG96J2/view?usp=sharing

 

 

Xenius_YKK

Thanks, downloaded and added to my collection happy.png Sad only 128 sets supported, so that you have to "swap" between which sets to be active. A very strange limitation.

syousef

You're welcome. "Girl colours" matter to some women and girls, where others will find them ridiculous and prefer to stick with traditional colours. I'm trying to encourage my 10yo daughter to play casually and perhaps learn a little. She loves her pinks and purples.

The bugs in Chessmaster are always going to be annoying now that it's been abandoned unfortunately. Even when you've chosen your 128 sets if you have a chess set loaded and another that's just been recoloured you have to find a 3rd different chess set with a different shape to load in between the 2. The colours don't change if you just go directly between two based on the same 3D model. There's also no tool available to build a new 3D model, and the effort to reverse engineer the file format was never worth it let alone now.

EscherehcsE
Castle_00 wrote:

Is there a mod where you can autoplay tournament games in 10th edition or GM Edition?  I know it existed in 7000, 8000, and 9000 but was removed in the last 2 versions.

If there is, I'd like to know about it. A big pain in the tushy...