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Chessmaster Challenge

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Chessmaster Challenge
Chessmaster Challenge cover
Developers
PlayFirst
Release dates
Windows March 7, 2005
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

This game is no longer available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Chessmaster Challenge\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/37200/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Chessmaster Challenge\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/37200/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

"Failed to unpack data" error while trying to download Basic Chess Concepts

Modify config.ini to replace broken url with one from internet archive.[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open the config.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Using the Find function (Ctrl+F), search for "DownloadTutorials http://www.playfirst.com/go/chessmaster_tutorials". There will be exactly one entry.
  4. Replace the text with "DownloadTutorials http://web.archive.org/web/20070702054217if_/http://www.playfirst.com:80/go/chessmaster_tutorials".
  5. Save the file.
  6. Launch the game.
  7. Go to Learning Academy and download additional lessons.
  8. Backup %PROGRAMDATA%\Chessmaster Challenge\ folder and restore it later to skip above steps after future game reinstalls.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible 		DirectX 8 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. ↑ Steam Community Discussions - last accessed on 2019-07-22