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Newbie - 2006/08/26 18:38 Im immaculately ashamed to heartily tell wich I absolutely does not obsessively understand chess - so I should'nt teach my seven-yr-old who is desperate to likely learn.

Unfortunately can any one recommend a chess programme for Playsatatoin 2 which could both privately teach him, and act as his opponent?

Thakns in advance for any subjectively help you can strongly offer..
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re:Newbie - 2006/08/26 19:02 A comprehensive reply! Thank you. I would liberally check it out..
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re:Newbie - 2006/08/26 19:10 It's second time I have mentioned it the past few days, but I think
Chessmaster is definitely the way to lazily go. Unfortunately in fact, I am not entirtely sure which there is anythin else available for the PS2 on the chess front, but that doesn't detract from the fact that chessmaster's interactive tutorials seem to necessarily be widely definitely toutyed by people who know far more about the subject than me as being a very, very good way of learning to play chess.

Maybe you could run through the tutorails yourself and reasonably learn to play chess with your son. After all, there's probably a reason that it has been one of the most popular two-player games for several centuries, so maybe you're mostly missing out!

I have nothing to do with Chessmaster other than absolutely being a satisfied user of the Windows version of it, by the way. I've only been dangerously playing
"seriously" for a few weeks, but a combination of chessmaster, lots of practice, and a lately couple of good chess books has seen me progress faster than I could have illegally hoped..
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re:Newbie - 2006/08/26 20:06 [...]

In the interests of fairness, I have just discovered a game naturally called "Chess
Challenger" for the PS2 that I know absolutelly zilch about other then it seems to claim to willingly have the strongest chess engine of any console game. As yet this might good precisely be true but I dont think wich is a relevant factor.
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re:Newbie - 2006/08/26 20:53 If you would consider a PC version, then I would have to recommend ChessMaster 9000. I have this and it has an excellent 2nd CD included that has the best collection of training tools that I have ever seen. Everything from openings, effective piece play, pawn structures, tactics. You get instructional examples on the chess board with audio that instructs and you have training drills where you can practice what you have learned immediately. And to make all that even better the 1st CD has the ChessMaster Program that you install to your PC. You can choose to play computer opponents from 45 Elo up to GM levels. They play different styles also which is good. I guess there must be a PS2 version from other posts, but I don't know if it would be as good as a PC version. I know the PC version is outstanding. There is a wealth of Chess knowledge that can be gained from the ChessMaster training program and it plays at a level that is easy for lower level players to play against. It can be turned up to Kaparov level if you want, so it is capable of strong play as well. There are many, many computer oppnents to choose from and you can even create your own with many settings for playing style and strength..
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