It depends on what you want it for.
If you want it for teaching, I wouldn't recommend it unless you are rated below 1400. The teaching stuff is OK, but nothing spectacular.
For playing, it's good because you have many playing levels and different playing styles.
For a database of games its pretty good, but for openings its sucks! Most of its opening database goes to only 3 to 5 moves. One opponent played 1. c4 against me, and I wanted to know how to play against it. When I went to chessmaster 10th, all it told me was 1.c4 and the name (english). Not even some follow-up moves!
I bought CM10 recently, and have liked it so far. I have nothing except the older versions of CM to compare it against, so I may be a little biased as this is basically the only such software I have tried, however I have liked it thus far. I think it is pretty good to use to analyze games with, however I've heard many people say that there is a lot better software for this. For playing, it's pretty good. The engine is pretty tough, and it has some lessons, however these are more geared to beginners. As said above, it depends on what you are looking for.
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Originally posted by giantsfan94707at 1500 I suspect you will still get something out of the CM10 tutorials. Although id recommend you buy something along the lines of fritz, since CM10 gets boring very quickly.
oh ok i play at about 1500 stregth. im not a beginner so the tutorials will not really help. can playing the chess master help you?
Originally posted by giantsfan94707Not really, i'tll just whoop the crap out of you.
oh ok i play at about 1500 stregth. im not a beginner so the tutorials will not really help. can playing the chess master help you?
If your buying it for the engine, might as well go with something like Fritz, which is more powerful. In fact, even some of the freeware engines out there (like TogaII) are stronger.
Originally posted by giantsfan94707Yes! I love the lectures. I'm 1852 and I still find them useful. It's a strong program, lots of different computer people to play against, tournaments, you can give simuls, play blindfold.
can anybody tell me if it is worth buying?
It has lots of drills if you are under 1600 that would be usefull. Great program.
If you are looking for a strong engine to play against and to analyses your game and a decent database program then go with fritz.
So it depends what you are looking for and where you are in chess right now rating wise.