Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster 2: Chess in the Black Castle
- A new chess adventure with Fritz, Bianca, and Chesster
- Covers openings, middle game tactics, endgames, pinning, and more
- Over 20 mini games within the game for practice
- Powered by “Fritz”, the world’s leading chess software
- For kids ages 8 and up
Product Description
Fritz, Bianca and Chesster are back in a new chess adventure! Jump into chess action to rescue Chesster from deep within the walls of King Black’s Castle in Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster 2, “Chess in the Black Castle.” You’ll have lots of fun learning move by move about openings, middle game strategy and tactics, endgames, pinning, delivering check, attacking, protecting – and much more. Try out over 20 mini games within the game to practice what you… More >>
Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster 2: Chess in the Black Castle
July 20th, 2010 at 11:44 am
This is, without a doubt, by far, the worse software I have ever seen. Perhaps the software had a malfunction, but there was no help key, and no means by which to go from window to another. After 2 hours, we gave up. We had to play a sumo wrestling game, a pac-man type game with a witch, but no chess. This was a chess software program and it was terrible. We never learned one thing about chess. It was ridiculous. My kids much prefer Lego chess to this.
Rating: 1 / 5
July 20th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Nice software for kids. Not sure how much this will help their chess though. More for entertainment than chess improvement.
Rating: 3 / 5
July 20th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I have 7 and 9 year old boys that play chess. They are also both very computer savy. I bought this program to buff up their chess playing skills and stategy, but they say they find it boring and don’t think it has anything to do with playing chess because the game pieces and boards look nothing like the traditional game pieces. The characters are very difficult to identify and confusing, they are cartoon renditions dressed up in costumes. I’d save your money and look for a better chess program or get your child involved in an actual chess club.
Rating: 2 / 5
July 20th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Never able to get this to work. It would run through the story line and then crash. We use Chessmaster instead. They have a nice game area for little kids.
Rating: 1 / 5
July 20th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
My kids love the Fritz and Chester II and it is difficult for me to get them off the computer. But one problem is that they are so addictive to it that they now don’t have enough time for their study and piano. The software teaches some good strategies which are good for beginners.
My biggest complaint is that you can not back up the CD because it is encrypted and protected. This means that if you scratch the CD which happens very often, you have to buy new CD.
Rating: 4 / 5