crap I bought a self-moving chess set (excalibur mirage)...wanted one for past 12 years or so since I saw it.
anyway it broke within 5 minutes piece of work it was. Sent it back for refund.
anyway looking around I found out that chessmaster series is a laughing joke as far as the chess engine is concerned.
If your serious you can get really good chess engines for free. I know there are better ones fritz, deep junior, etc. But I don't wanna
shell out $50 to $100 for 'em either.
Arena GUI to many winboard compatible chess engines (it's FREE btw)
http://www.playwitharena.com/
Here's some listings of chess engines
http://www.chessopolis.com/cchess.htm/
http://www.www.tim-mann.org/engines.html/
http://www.wbec-ridderkerk.nl/index.html/
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the chess engines I use which are FREE are:
lampchop
polar
quark
yace
note: I couldn't get crafty18.5 to work for some reason.