#Free chess lessons online vs computer free#

I remember the unlocking of the sets as I played games in Chessmaster. But I agree that Chessmaster is a good value for the money. I got the impression that the OP didn't want to spend any money, and he also wants a '2.5D' board design, so I doubt that he's interested in Chessmaster. again you can get any of these on amazon or ebay for no more then 10 bucks. (but if you don't notate games then Fritz is basicly useless unless your like rated 1300). if you are pretty good at chess (I mean like 800 Rateing or more), and Fritz if you notate your game and want some help on it without haveing to go to an actual chess club. Overall I'd chose Chessmaster 10th ed. for actual playing a quick game, Chessmaster 11th ed. Also if you do notation then Fritz might really halp you becouse what you do is you enter the game, it takes about 5-20 minutes to analyze the game obviously if it was a blowout on either side then it might not help as much like if you lose you rook for nothing it will say something like 'don't do that you will lose your rook!' were as if you did a semi good move but there was a better one it will sonetimes go into depth and display on your screen about 10 long sentances about how you could do this and then this and then this or you could have done this and fork these two peices and so on.

Fritz on the other hand i've heared only plays at a grand master level and there is not way to shange this. but its said to be fairly good and pretty hard to beat. I havent checked in on the Chessmaster 11th ed. But be warned even though it has it (3-D) you have to play enough games, win enough games, and other reasons to 'unlock' these sets. One thing is that yes as I said earlyer the Chessmaster 10th Edition is really good (good as in both quality and level selection) Chessmaster 10th also has 3-D options.

(Chessmaster 11 is also called Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition.) There might be other commercial programs that handle 3-D boards. Other than Jose, you'll probably have to get a commercial program like Fritz or Chesssmaster 10 or 11. One irritation about Jose is that it will resign in losing positions, and I don't know of a way to change that setting.

#Free chess lessons online vs computer free#

The only decent free one that comes to mind is Jose. If you must have 3-D, then that eliminates most free programs.