The world's best program for beginners and advanced players.

• SPECIAL NEW FEATURE : Ten beautiful new luxury chess sets from custom chess set designers House of Staunton.

• CHESS TEACHING : Extensive course on the basics of chess taught by International Chess Master Josh Waitzkin. Attacking chess commentary by Grandmaster Larry Christiansen.

• MULTIPLAYER : Challenge players over Internet or LAN connection. Play rated and unrated games, as well as simultaneous exhibitions, join or create tournaments and ladders, watch other matches, and set up or take chess lessons.

• Learn from famous Champion JOSH WAITZKIN subject of the movie Searching For Bobby Fischer® Enroll in THE ART OF LEARNING, Josh’s very own chess tutorial offering novice & advanced players the secrets to success on and off the board.

PC CONFIGURATION OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® XP/Vista (32/64bit)• PROCESSOR: Pentium® III or AMD K6 III 1Ghz / Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or Athlon™ 64 3400+ recommended• RAM: 256MB / 512MB recommended• VIDEO CARD: 32MB Video Card / 128 MB recommended - See supported List* • DIRECT X®: DirectX® 9.0c (included on disc) • DVD ROM• SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c compatible HARD DISK: 600MB / 2.3GB recommended • PERIPHERALS: Mouse, keyboard • MULTIPLAY: Broadband connection with 56 kbps upstream or faster

*SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS AT TIME OF RELEASE: ATI® Radeon® 7500/8000/9000/X NVIDIA® GeForce™ 3/4/FX/6/7 Laptop models of these cards may work but are not supported. These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Additional chipsets may be supported after release. For an uptodate list of supported chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our website: http://support.ubi.com NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some DVD-RW and virtual drives.

© 2007 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Chessmaster, Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Portions of Chessmaster Academy instructional content, including those based on The Art of Learning, © 2007 Josh Waitzkin LLC.