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Disappointing chess product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 21
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was extremely disappointed with this chess software. With my newest PC I bought this year, the program is buggy when it comes to sound and music, which they do acknowledge in their manual.

The product also lacks knowledge of what keeps a child's interest. For an adult or child, the dialog and some exercises were lengthy, and uninteresting.

There were a couple of fun exercises, but really not worth the price as a whole.

If your a chess player, I suggest you teach your kid yourself, or
find another chess program.

There's got to be something better than this.

Don't buy this worthless game unless you love to be frustrated

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 27
Date: September 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was looking for an intructional CD to help my daughter to learn chess. I read the reviews and endorsements and thought that this was what I was looking for. WRONG!

First of all, the CD comes with no instruction book and you're left to try and figure out what you're supposed to do by yourself (good luck). I've spent over 2 hours on this thing so far and I still haven't seen one thing that would help my daughter to learn to play chess.

I've emailed their 'help line' hoping to get some answers and never heard back from them.

Save your money and your sanity and don't buy this CD.

Don't waste your money on this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 18
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my son and we found out we got misled by other reviews. This software is more like a cartoon than a real chess lesson. It is very distracting.

If you just want to learn some basic rules and want your kids have some fun, it is ok to buy it. But if you want your kids learn some strageties, DON'T waste your money on this. Go for "chessmater".

Don't buy this sexist game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 35
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is called Fritz and Chesster. Fritz is the boy. Chester is a rat. That girl you see in the picture, her name is Bianca. She never actually plays. She just says things like "Well done, brave knight!" and asks stupid questions. At one point poor Bianca points out that the queen is the strongest piece, and Fritz makes a comment about his mother chewing out his father. The tone and context are extremely anti-woman, in my opinion. He also counters by saying that boys are smarter.

It seems like the makers of this game were really threatened by the fact that you have to call the most powerful piece "she". To take the queen down a notch, they refer to a group or queens as a harem. To demonstrate how this powerful piece moves they have the queen run around picking flowers as fast as she can. A male voice says, "Off you go," in a tone which one can only assume is meant to accompany a little pat on her behind.

Software Not Working

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this software for my son, based on the reviews I read on Amazon.com. The software is not working. I have notified Terzio, two times and no response. I just wasted my money on a game that does nothing!

Didn't work!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Just as another reviewer said, I ended up wasting my money on a game that did nothing. Several installs and calls later, still no better. It was a birthday gift for my daughter and she couldn't wait to play it.

The game installs properly and seems to work but got stuck after the intro movie and wouldn't do anything else. (Note the kids are running a 1G Celeron, on Windows 98. I'm considering upgrading the OS and trying again.)

A waste of time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I agree with reviewer Mr. Dietz. I was eager for my child to learn chess and we bought this new on Amazon for $24.99. Put it in and loaded it in. This game is so confusing and there are no instructions at all. No help menu either. We wasted at least 2 hours on it before I ejected it and apologized to her. There is nothing here to learn chess from.

Worst game theory and setup EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the stupidest game I ever saw for sale- my kids laughed at how poorly the graphics and story were. What a complete waste.

System Requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Never got to use this game ... Amazon Product description said game was compatible with Windows 2000, but when I received the game; the box does not list "2000" among the compatable operating Systems. On the plus side, Amazon accepted responsibility and provided prepaid return shipping.

tot6al disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a poorly working program with no instructions or intuitive flow. It would not allow me to bypass its practice regimes which offered no explanations and so were useless and frustrating. It would not allow me to play chess in any mode without graduating from its pre-requisites.After an hour of frustration my five year old asked if we could just go back to the original "board game". I threw the program in the garbage.

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