Mate Master

And he could have blocked it.
Nom.

Checkmate on 3rd move. Could have been on second...

The mode that lets you play chess against the computer is terrible and about the best that can be said for it is that it seems to play legal moves, though it doesn't know about en passant (or promotion of pawns to anything but queens). After 1.e4 2.Bc4 3.Qf3, it almost allows Qxf7 mate on either the fourth or fifth move.

Any casual player will benefit from the novice and beginner sections, which will help them see and exploit opportunities in their own games. Stronger players will find these levels rather easy and the harder ones are spoilt by bad computer responses, which often turn a mate in 3 o more into a mate in 2 and sometimes even allow white checkmate after a move that should lose the game. There are some genuine errors, such as those below but thats inevitable in a game with 650 chess puzzles and should be easy to fix. I think there's a nice mix of positions could come from real games of chess and ones that are obviously composed to look pretty. For me, though, the 'stylish design' is a hindrance as it takes a while to recognise the piece designs at a glance and, several times, I thought I'd delivered checkmate only to discover that I was attacking the opponent's queen!

Easy 15 is the wrong way round. Black has mate in three; white has nothing.