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Master of Chess

PlayStation 2 • 2025

Should you play it?

Play chess with help from your AI character, solve chess puzzles, build an unrivaled openings repertoire, and win tournaments worldwide. Become World Champion in the first and only chess career simulator!

What works

  • Unique chess career simulation
  • Engaging skill progression and puzzles
  • Adaptive ai assistance
  • Active developer and community support
  • Motivating elo and tournament system

Things to keep in mind

  • Numerous bugs and crashes reported
  • Ai opponents sometimes behave unrealistically
  • Limited management and rpg depth
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Ui and interface need polish

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • World of Tennis: Roaring ’20s

  • Pure Badminton

  • Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition

  • Full Ace Tennis Simulator

  • NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager

  • Chess Ultra

  • The Spike

  • Terraforming Mars

  • Virtua Tennis 4™

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Hidden Gems

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  • Soul Academy

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Master of Chess: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition, Story.

Last update: 26/07/2026