Chessmaster 8000 is a 2000 chess video game developed and published by Mattel Interactive for the Windows. It is part of the Chessmaster series. Chessmaster 8000 runs on a new chess engine. It is compatible with any publicly available XBoard engine which can be imported to the game to customize the engine. A new interface change is the addition of Natural Language. It gives verbal cues and text instructions when for example making an illegal move. Josh Waitzkin returns to the game and narrates a new endgame course. Bruce Pandolfini designed a new feature for the game called Match the Masters where the game asks a multiple choice question to predict a move in a historic Grandmaster game. The graphics have been upgraded to 16-bit color. The game's tutorials and database have been updated and expanded and new personalities added to the game. Network multiplayer options are LAN modem and TCP/IP. Internet play Chessmaster Live is through MPlayer.com service. Matchmaking was removed from internet play.