Getting Chessmaster 9000 to Work in Windows 10

I guess. When you create the VM, you have to assign some of your hard drive space and RAM to the VM. So as long as you have enough of those two items to run both your host system and the VM, it should work. Oh, and you'll also need the OS for the VM (Win 95, Win 98, whatever) and a copy of the program to run in the VM.

In theory I suppose. However having worked with a VM box with Kasparov's Gambit everything worked except the audio when a move was made. All other sound effects worked perfectly.

Hello Has anybody tried running cm 9000 on a virtual box??

yes, i have, but only to install it so i can get see where the files are installed.  the game appears to work fine.

i'm trying to get CM 9000 to run on my dad's Win 10 system.  can not install the game on his system due to the copy protection.  i have copied the files (in My Documents and Program Files) on the XP VM system to separate XP, 7 and 10 VM systems.  all work if you get around the CD check.

the only thing i have noticed out of the ordinary is that starting the Classroom in Windows 10 there are 4 tabs (Intermediate, Advanced, Josh, and a blank one).  on the XP and 7 VMs the tabs are Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced and Josh.  so the Windows 10 Intermediate tab has the Beginning tutorials, the Windows 10 Advanced tab is the Intermediate tutorials and so on.

does anyone have CM 9000 installed under Windows 10 and could they verify that they see this same behavior.

thanks!!

GOG games used to have a file there that installed cm9000 for you perfectly. However I do not think the link is still there. Research the whole of this thread you might find it listed.

I'm a little confused about all the tabs and everything. I won't have access to my Win10 machine until tomorrow. I might be able to look at my PC then, and maybe all the tabs will make sense.

Regarding the copy protection, I might need to PM you tomorrow.

I installed CM9000 on Win10 from the original disks. (My Setup.exe file on Disk 1 does not have copy protection.) I'd never noticed it before, but yes, I see the same weird effect with the Classroom tabs as you see.

Hmm, I can't remember if I applied the CM9000 patches to my Win10 installation. Maybe the Classroom tabs would be fixed if the patches were applied? idk (Whoops, I guess I did apply the patches; My install says Version 1.02a, which I think is the latest patch.)

It would be interesting for someone to install CM9000 from the GOG Games digital download to see if GOG fixed that tab glitch.

Don't forget that when running engine tournaments in CM9000 on Win 10, I've never been able to run the tournaments for more than about 5 hours without the program crashing. I don't know if you'd still get this crashing effect if you just used the program normally (playing games, using tutorials, etc.).

It's awesome to see recent posts for chessmaster. I have several versions. I just re-installed 9000 on a an xp machine I use as a chess workstation and for vintage games. I have installed the  updates. The problem I am having is that I am missing the statistics window. I like the statistics that Chessmaster tracks. Any idea what the problem might be? Since I just reinstalled it, I am provisional. I do not know if that makes a difference. Running xp, 32 bit, completely updated on a pentium 4, 800 fsb with hyperthreading. I am running Chessmaster 10 as well, but on my xp machine the 9000 is easier on my old system. 

Hmmmmmmmm........ interesting.  No clue here from me. Sorry.

I don't guess I can help you either. My one XP machine has sort of been semi-mothballed and no plans for reactivation for at least a number of months, if not longer. All I could offer is general advice, which you probably could think up on your own. Use it until you're no longer provisional, see if that matters. Uninstall and reinstall? Are you using the same account that you used to install 9000? (Don't know if that would make a difference, but worth trying?)

Beyond those lame ideas, I have nothing. :-)

P.S. - Did you install as admin? Idk if that makes a difference, but when you're grasping at straws...

Okay, thanks for the advice. I will see what happens after I am no longer provisional. However, it should also track the lesson sets so I would think the window would still need to be there. 

Yeah, I just looked at my Win10 install of 9000. I don't think I've played any games, and I see a statistics window with no games (I guess it's an assumed starting rating of 1500). You do know that the statistics window is buried under the "player profile" menu item, right?

IMHO? I just love making an 1.g4  OBK. (0pening book CM9000 format) and just watching the thing play a tournament with miscellaneous personalities. Further. CM 9000 has the very best ANALYZING BOARD of all the programs I have ever seen. That is the board that shows the program 'thinking' on a board. Watching the pieces reconfigure themselves with each new scheme it is considering is very informative in regard to learning New openings.

I know this forum is old but I thought I would post this here, I got CM 9000 to run on windows 11.

Downloaded an ISO from archive.org and used winrar and direct play to get it to run.

Well done and thankyou.