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| Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster | 
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| From: Viva Media
Category: Software
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $25.99
You Save: $4.00 (13%)
New (2) from $25.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 233
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 00113
Model: 00113
UPC: 838639001132
EAN: 0838639001132
ASIN: B0000950SM
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Don't buy this sexist game January 6, 2007
14 out of 35 found this review helpful
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.
A waste of time and money December 18, 2006
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
 Fun Way to Learn the Rules of Chess December 3, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This software is focused on learning the rules of the game. Movement of different pieces and pawns is demonstrated through an assortment of arcade-type games. There are some decent books for learning chess for beginners, but learning through a computer game program makes it much easier and more fun.
The program doesn't contain any instructions,so some people may find it frustrating figuring out what to do in the beginning. However, there is a symbol in the top right corner, clicking on which brings down the menu at which point navigating becomes a piece of cake.
Just knowing the rules of the game enables one to play chess, but not exactly to win, so the second CD in this series (Learn to Play Chess 2) continues where the first one left off and goes into different tactics and strategies.
The software is recommended for 8 year-old children and older - kids at heart may have fun learning chess with this program also.
go for it kids November 3, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a chess player myself, so I can endorse this even more. This software is well designed, it can get a little difficult to get to some exercises inside it, but kids can figure it out eventually. My son has improved his play quite a bit even though he takes hints sometimes :), but this is a good software to get the kids started and teach them all the requisite skills to become a chess player
Don't buy this worthless game unless you love to be frustrated September 3, 2006
16 out of 27 found this review helpful
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.
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