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Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster | 
| From: Viva Media
Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.95
as of 7/30/2010 00:37 CDT details
You Save: $3.04 (15%)
New (5) from $16.95
Seller: ContentMedia
Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 693
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95
Genre: Childrens Sports Software Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 00113
Model: 00113
UPC: 838639001132
EAN: 0838639001132
ASIN: B0000950SM
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | When the king and queen go on vacation, young Fritz is left in charge of the castle. As he explores his surroundings, he'll learn all about chess, from the basics to advanced strategies -- and so will you! | | • | Discover 7 great arcade-style games that introduce chess fundamentals and advanced concepts | | • | Fun characters like Fritz and Chesster make learning the game fun and interesting for children | | • | Also includes a one-year membership to playchess.com | | • | Is the item available or not, website issue confusing. |
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Product Description
King for a day! Fritz is in charge of the castle when his parents go on vacation. It's every kid's dream until the dastardly King Black challenges the young stand-in king to a duel! Explore the kingdom and discover 7 arcade-style games that explain everything from chess basics to master strategies. Exercise your brain and put what you've learned to the test in the Intelligym, a training ground for future chess pros. You'll soon realize that this chess game is anything but child's play! Features: Learn to play chess with characters Fritz and Chesster Explore the kingdom and discover 7 arcade-style games Explains everything from chess basics to master strategies Includes a bonus 1 year membership to PlayChess.com, a $19.99 value For 1 or 2 players System Requirements for PC: Windows 95/98/ME/XP Pentium II 233 Processor 32 MB RAM (16 MB free memory) 16-bit Soundblaster Compatible 16 x speed CD-ROM Drive Graphics Card: Resolution 800 x 600 Pixels Windows Compatible Sound Card System Requirements for MAC: MAC OS X: Power Macintosh G3 128 MB RAM System 10.1 or later MAC CLASSIC: Power Macintosh 180 32 MB RAM System 8.6 or later BOTH: 800 x 600 pixels (16-bit color minimum)
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 89
 Sucks if you don't have internal cd drive. April 10, 2010
Y. Chung
The game is fun and teaches the basics of the chess movement. I have no complaints of the game itself. The game is copy protected and requires you to have the disc in the cd drive when playing. This is all well and dandy but but my kid's laptop doesn't have a cd drive which is the case for almost all netbooks and many newer "light" notebooks. I can install the game using the external usb cd drive but then I have to keep plugging the external drive every time my daughter wants to play and it becomes a circus juggling act when she wants to move around the house with the laptop. There are tools on the internet that allows you to play without the physical cd but that's one extra step I didn't plan on taking just to play a game.
 Great program even for younger kids February 20, 2010
Lisa
I was looking for a way to teach my 5 1/2 year old son more about chess. I had taught him how the pieces move, but since I never learned anything more than that (such as basic checkmates), I couldn't help. I considered Dinosaur Chess, but it seemed that the emphasis was more on teaching how the pieces move, and my son had mastered that. I was a little wary of buying Fritz and Chesster because it was unclear whether reading was required. Well, it's not. My five year old son and my seven year old daughter both love this program. I've been playing it too so that I can keep up with them, and it is challenging and instructive for me as well. My daughter was able to master all of the games with no help. My son has needed me to sit with him and help him in the latter part of the program.
The first games teach how the pieces move. The arcade style games are fun, and the graphics are completely appropriate for young kids. Both of my children really liked the characters and the story. After you have mastered those games, you are introduced to your "trainer" Chesster, who teaches basic checkmates and other strategies. In one game, you are given a configuration of pieces on the board, and asked to achieve checkmate within a certain number of moves, usually either 1, 2, or 3. These chess puzzles are challenging, but not discouraging, even for my son (although he did need some help).
Both of my kids have learned a great deal from this program -- and so have I! My son already liked chess when I got this program, but he is growing to love it more through Fritz and Chesster. I could not be happier.
 No Instructions - you and your kid will be asleep January 16, 2010
T. Snyder
You and your kid will be asleep by the time you figure out what to do next. This may be the worst instructional software I ever purchased.
Great Way to Learn And Practice Core Chess Drills October 30, 2009
Samuel Smith (Toronto, ON Canada)
My seven year old is totally engrossed in this. It's a great learning tool because they are playing games that have more meaning in the story to learn certain basics. The toilet smashing bishop training was pretty hysterical. My son freaked out when he tied Grandpa White for the lead.
Chess is about practicing patterns and these patterns don't emerge much in games when kids play. I taught my son to play, but he doesn't want to do drills to learn pawn combat of mating patterns. With a game like this, they get to focus on core chess patterns, as well as feel victorious when doing these drills.
As an interesting fact regarding chess patterns and repetition - in memory studies, Grandmasters who are famous for recalling chess board layouts from past games did only marginally better then the general population when asked to memorize RANDOM arrangements of chess pieces on the board. It's all in the patterns.
The animation and characters are great. The voice acting great. Love it.
By the way- there is a "Chess Complete" version that has all three games on 1 disk. Amazon doesn't list it, but I got it from the Apple Store for my Mac. #3, interestingly, is only on Amazon for Windows, but it does exist for Macs as seen in the Chess Complete product. As Amazon doesn't sell the complete version, I am mentioning this here.
Learning to play chess September 13, 2009
Dorothy Gralow (Larned, Kansas United States)
I first saw this product when a friend's child was using it. He really liked it. I then bought it for another child who asked me to teach her to play chess. She told me, "It's really fun and I like the computer game a lot." She was working on teaching me how to play better. It's fun, it's easy, and I've learned stuff.
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