Fritz & Chesster's Chess Complete by Viva Media
Learn how to play chess from scratch in three thrilling and unforgettable chess adventures.
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Overview
Offering three complete, award-winning chess adventures, Fritz & Chesster’s Chess Complete delivers a ton of fun as you learn how to play and win at chess.
Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster 1
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 seven 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.
Learn to Play Chess 2: Chess in the Black Castle
Fritz, Bianca, and Chesster take on a new chess adventure. Advanced training in the Black Castle will have every player, from beginners on up, improving their skills and strategy. Jump into chess action to rescue Chesster from deep within the walls of King Black’s Castle. You’ll learn move by move about openings, middle game strategy and tactics, endgames, pinning, delivering check, attacking, protecting, and more.
Learn to Play Chess 3: Chess for Winners
The Chess fair amusement park is in town--and Chess is the name of the game. Pick up chess tips and skills as you ride on the bumper cars and Ferris wheel. Discover mini-games and more at every attraction. This unforgettable chess adventure is designed to further advance young chess player’s skills.
Features
- The complete “Learn to Play Chess” series: Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster; Learn to Play Chess 2: Chess in the Black Castle; and Learn to Play Chess 3: Chess for Winners
- Practice in basic openings, diversion tactics, types of check, and more
- More than 20 mini games
- Advanced training presented in volumes 2 and 3 will lead you to chess success
ESRB content rating: E for “Everyone”
System Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.1.5 or later
- PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- 128MB RAM
- 800 x 600 or higher display resolution with a minimum of 16-bit color
- DVD drive
Mfr. Part No.: 416
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Fritz & Chesster's Chess Complete by Viva Media
Stunningly Good- Teaches the Core Drills in a Fun Manner
Written by NV from Toronto
Oct 30, 2009
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 or 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.
I reinstalled a fresh version of Tiger on my Cube 400MHz G4 for a kids machine, and this runs great. Tried it on Leopard on my laptop, and it runs great there as well.
By the way- this is a fantastic deal. On Amazon, you only get the first game for this price, with the other 2 not being available for the Mac. All 3 will run you $90 for Windows (only the first 1 is available for the Mac). I ordered from the online Canadian version of the Apple store and received it in 2 days. …MoreWas this useful?
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Fritz & Chesster's Chess Complete by Viva Media
An excellent chess instruction and training software series
Written by MO from Windsor
Jul 23, 2009
For several years now, I have owed Fritz & Chesster parts 1 and 2 and have thoroughly enjoyed the detail and imagination used to present the basics of chess. As a chess coach in schools for the last 15 years or so, I was curious about the last title in the series: chess is for winners however I've had difficulty locating it so I purchased the Chess Complete version. I was not disappointed and unlike another reviewer I did not have any trouble at all installing and running the software. (on OS X 10.5.7) I think this is one of the best commercial products available to MAC users on the market if you are a beginner, want to introduce your kids to chess or even if you are headed towards the intermediate level of playing this great game. …More
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Fritz & Chesster's Chess Complete by Viva Media
very good, great as an intro to kids, fun games
Written by MZ from fresh meadows
Feb 17, 2009
very good, great as an intro to kids, fun games
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Anyone Else Have Trouble with Game 3? It worked on Snow Leopard AND Tiger for me.
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- Oct 30, 2009
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