From game site: Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition expands the scope of chess to include
broader principles of learning. Josh Waitzkin's much-anticipated book
The Art of Learning (Free Press) is designed to pave the road to
successful long-term growth on and off the chessboard. The eight-time
National Chess Champion and two-time martial arts World Champion puts
users in his shoes in some of the most riveting and formative moments
of his chess career, including the legendary climactic game from the
book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer. Waitzkin then turns to the
classics, introducing beginners to brilliant games from some of the
most important players in the history of chess. In his most revealing
commentary ever, Waitzkin not only teaches the beginning chess player
the fundamentals of the game, but also humanizes the road to mastery.
Never has chess been so exciting.
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What works
Training mode
Ranked play mode
Custom game mode
Tournament mode
Fun game mode
Mini games
Puzzles
Player management(create, delete, edit)
Print game
What does not
"Academy" and "Kids academy" (workaround below)
Still has purple borders around text (workaround below)
Online mode
Can't browse through directories.(can't go up, only down to root)
In academy you can't choose categories in academy, so you can't choose and bigger part of lessons. this workaround/HowTo puts all lessons in one place, so you don't need to choose category and can choose any lesson. This workaround tested/created to fix Josh Waitzkin and Larry Christiansen academys.
1. replace game_install_dir/Data/TData/Curriculum.dat with that from archive(below).
2. move/copy all *.tut files from 'game_install_dir/Data/Tutorials/josh academy' to 'game_install_dir/Data/Tutorials/josh academy/Josh Intro'
for this you can use command:
$ find 'game_install_dir/Data/Tutorials/josh academy/' */*.tut -exec cp '{}' 'game_install_dir/Data/Tutorials/josh academy/Josh Intro/.' \;
in my case:
$ find '/media/media2/program files/chessmaster/Data/Tutorials/josh academy/' */*.tut -exec cp '{}' '/media/media2/program files/chessmaster/Data/Tutorials/josh academy/Josh Intro/.' \;
I have a quick-and-dirty workaround for everyone who wants to access the rest tutorials.Navigate to
~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Ubisoft/Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition/Data/Tutorials/josh academy
and copy the files from eg Josh Arsenal to Josh Intro.Then overwrite
existing files with the new ones eg rename Discovery.tut to The
King.tut . Then when you start academy and click The King under
Introduction you will see Discoveries instead.
