Beginning and intermediate tutorials appear to be appropriate for those levels of play, with discussions of planning, strategy, tactics, exercises by Chess Caf columnist and noted teacher Bruce Pandolfini, etc. The advanced lessons, however, leave something to be desired. Similar to other databases, searches can be performed by position or header information. A few questions can be raised about the comprehensiveness of the data, however. While 500,000 initially seem like a huge amount of games, by today's standards it is only a modest number.
Most databases consist of over a million, including a healthy dose of correspondence games.
The heart and soul of CM7000 for the experienced player will be the Game Room. Although a game can be played against the computer in any room except the Library and the Database, it is only in the Game Room where CM7000's analysis, annotation and publishing functions are consolidated. Game analysis can be saved to a file for subsequent editing or reformatting by a word processor. When coupled with the diagram copy and paste function, CM7000 can be used as a chess publishing tool. Despite its many other features, CM7000 may be, arguably, best known as a playing program.