In Chessmaster 10th Edition, the creation of new personalities has been made easier than before. The personality feature has inspired many amateur computer chess enthusiasts to attempt to find more optimum personalities. Chessmasterfor example, features over different personalities ranging from International Grandmaster strength down to Stanley, a chimpanzee who, in most situations, plays completely random moves. Individual piece values can also be adjusted. The King engine allows users to create new playing styles, also called 'personalities', by manipulating several dozen different settings, such as King Safety, Pawn Weakness, Randomness, Mobility and others. CCRL places it 84th on its February list.

The latest version, Chessmaster 11th Edition, was released inand has lagged behind more current chess engines.

If multiple versions of other engines are stripped out of their list, Chessmaster ranks 14th among all engines tested.

The second edition had an engine designed by Kate and Dan Spracklen of Sargon fame. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of Since Chessmaster for Windows 3.Ĭhess engine. Chessmaster is a chess-playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft.