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Pleasantly surprised I'm a very casual live player; I have not played a human in over 15 years. I've also never been a PC Gamer either. However, I recently bought chess software for my new Motorola MPx220 smartphone to pass time on flights, and I got the bug to play. I felt like I wanted to trade up and play chess on my PC to entertain myself. Anyway, I surfed around for a few hours and it seems the purists, studs and brainaics play Fritz software because of its chess engine modularity and pure game playing strength. For the rest of us, however, this game will thoroughly entertain and thrash us competitively. The training aids are a real gas, and you can 'cheat' to beat the virtual competitor anytime you need to for an ego refresh. The graduated skill levels are a real plus, but at lower-levels they sometimes blunder more than me. The graphics and controls in training mode work very powerfully, and they add to enjoyment and game awareness. I have two DVD/CD drives on my XP platform (a Dell desktop with an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor with Hypertheading). The software loaded effortlessly and works flawlessly. My drives did not get hosed. One of the drives is a Sony read/write and the other is a Samsung read-only drive. I could not create a backup disk of the game disk with my Sonic Software Disk Copy utility. Even on raw mode, the copy routine was stopped due to illegal activity. This is a pain in the neck, but for the price, I can get a new game if I wear this disk out by rough handling. The DVD/CD drive does not seem busy once the game starts. The disk must be acting as a sentry more than anything else.