Chessmaster 3000
{{Short description|1991 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
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| title = Chessmaster 3000
| image = Chessmaster 3000 video game cover.jpg
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| caption = Cover art featuring Will Hare{{cite web |last1=Plunkett |first1=Luke |title=The Life, and Death, of PC Gaming's Most Famous Cover Star |url=https://kotaku.com/the-life-and-death-of-pc-gamings-most-famous-cover-st-5939503 |website=Kotaku |publisher=G/O Media |access-date=20 April 2023 |date=31 August 2012}}
| developer = The Software Toolworks
| publisher = The Software Toolworks
| series = Chessmaster
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| platforms = Classic Mac OS, DOS, Windows
| released = 1991
October 1, 1993 (Mac OS){{cite web|first=James|last=Coates|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92091671/chicago-tribune/|title=The Chessmaster captures Fisher et al|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|page=139|date=August 27, 1993|accessdate=January 8, 2022|via=Newspapers.com}}
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}}The Chessmaster 3000 is a 1991 video game published by The Software Toolworks and an installment of the Chessmaster series.
Gameplay
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1992 reported that Chessmaster 3000 had added "a lot" to its predecessors, with new tutorial features and a variety of computer opponents making the game "a truly impressive sequel".{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1992&pub=2&id=97 | title=Software Toolworks' Chessmaster 3000 | magazine=Computer Gaming World | last=Carter | first=Tim | date=August 1992 | access-date=3 July 2014 | pages=42–43 |issue=97}}
Chessmaster 3000 was named the 40th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997. The editors wrote that "it remains [...] the premier PC chess title, with just the right balance of fancy game options and high-end gameplay. ChessMaster 3000 runs much faster than subsequent versions of the game and makes a welcome change from guns and guts".{{cite magazine |author1=Flynn, James |author2=Owen, Steve |author3=Pierce, Matthew |author4=Davis, Jonathan |author5=Longhurst, Richard | magazine=PC Gamer UK | title=The PC Gamer Top 100 |date=July 1997 | issue=45 | pages=51–83 }}
Reviews
- Game Players PC Entertainment{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Game_Players_PC_Entertainment_Volume_5_Issue_7_Holiday_1992/page/n57/mode/2up|title=Game Players PC Entertainment Volume 5 Issue 7 (Holiday 1992)}}
- Top Secret - May, 1993
- ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jul, 1993
- PC Games (Germany) - Aug, 1993
- ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Sep, 1994
- All Game Guide (1998){{cite web |url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=13690&tab=review |title=Chessmaster 3000 - Review - allgame |website=www.allgame.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116150623/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=13690&tab=review |archive-date=2014-11-16}}
- Play Time (German) - 1992 May