Ludography
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1988 · Chess · Strategy

Chessmaster 2100

First we took The Chessmaster 2000 and added 10 man-years of work by our programmers and graphic artists...

Released
1988
Platforms
AmigaApple IIApple IIGSCommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXMS-DOS
Genres
ChessStrategy
Developers
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Publishers
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Series
Chessmaster
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric

About

The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 is a computer chess video game published in 1988 by The Software Toolworks for the Apple IIGS, Classic Mac OS, and Commodore 64. Versions for MS-DOS and Amiga were later released. An Atari ST version was advertised and a Mega Drive version shown at Winter CES 1992, but neither were published.

Keywords

  • chessboard

Media

Chessmaster 2100 screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100 is a game in which 110 historical chess matches from 1834 to 1988 are included.

Reception

Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The beginning chess player will find that Chessmaster 2100 is easier to beat with it's [sic] "Newcomer" and "Coffeehouse" option and this is something every beginner's ego needs."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Apple II31 December 1988Worldwide · North America 31 December 1988
Apple IIGS31 December 1988Worldwide · North America 31 December 1988
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1988Worldwide · North America 31 December 1988
MS-DOS1 March 1989North America · Worldwide 31 December 1989 · Brazil 1 December 1990
Amiga31 December 1990North America

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