At one time, I had it installed on my PC. However, when I replaced the hard drive, I never bothered reinstalling it... I just now installed it on my backup box - It just might bring back a few memories.
The single-player mode of Majestic Chess isn't as flashy or as full-featured as Chessmaster, but the engine is by the legendary David Kittinger. 
https://www.chessprogramming.org/Majestic_Chess
https://www.chessprogramming.org/David_Kittinger
I just finished Chapter 1 in Majestic Chess...Bringing back old memories...
Since Majestic Chess is no longer sold at the retail level (only used sources), I guess I could mention the Internet Archive. The ISO image there is completely clean - Its hash is identical to the hash of the CD that I bought in the store way back when, so I know that the ISO image hasn't been modified in any way. Download the ISO image, burn it to a CD, then install the program.
https://archive.org/details/MajesticChessValuSoftPN104312005
MD5 checksum: F93AB9C10BED3DDDE29C05D039B828F1
SHA1 checksum: B28A2EC230CBD26928B029F31981238EFD59C54F
In case anyone's interested, here's a Gamespot review from 2003. (Of course, the online mode's server has long since been deactivated.)
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/hoyle-majestic-chess-review/1900-6074888/
I'm making progress, currently starting on Chapter 4... whee!!!!
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Is it possible to run this using a virtual drive mounted like Virtual Clonedrive? I can't burn or run CDs or DVDs on my computer, and I wanted to revisit this piece of my childhood
You didn't say which OS you're using. It's easy to do in Windows 10. Copy the ISO to your hard drive. Right-click on the ISO, then choose "mount." Now you can run "setup.exe" as administrator to start the installation. The installation program may ask permission to also install DirectX and DirectPlay.
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Is it possible to run this using a virtual drive mounted like Virtual Clonedrive? I can't burn or run CDs or DVDs on my computer, and I wanted to revisit this piece of my childhood
You didn't say which OS you're using. It's easy to do in Windows 10. Copy the ISO to your hard drive. Right-click on the ISO, then choose "mount." Now you can run "setup.exe" as administrator to start the installation. The installation program may ask permission to also install DirectX and DirectPlay.
I'm running windows 7 and I'm just using virtual clonedrive to mount. However, it's just not running. It opens briefly then immediately closes.
Nevermind, I got it to work! It turns out the setup.exe didn't work properly, so I just fixed that.
Well, you got farther than I got...
I'd never tried Virtual CloneDrive before, so I installed it in Win7. However, I couldn't get it to do anything. There were settings that I could change, but there didn't appear to be any way to get it to do anything. So I uninstalled it.
I was going to suggest that you use one of two programs that I *do* use in Windows 7, and they both work: WinCDEmu and OSFMount.
https://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/download/
https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html
Anyway, good that you got it going!
Buy the PC game Majestic Chess. After completing its Adventure, you should have a chess.com rating of 1200. It teaches you chess by disguising instructions as a computer video game. I have absolutely no connection with Majestic Chess besides being a very satisfied customer.
It'll teach you the following: how pieces move, chess rules, common mating patterns (KQ, KR), forks, pins, skewers, discovery attacks, opposition, some basic strategic planning. In that order. Which is enough to get you to 1200 on chess.com based on my own experience.
The learning is simple: it puts you into a game against the computer to practice what you've just learned. Unlike a book where you must somehow arrange the actual board experience yourself (ches has a degree of pattern recognition). Unlike a coach, Majestic Chess lets you take as long as possible in the games without having to pay for idle time. Oh, its games are "freestyle" in that you don't have to use the specific tactics... but much easier if you do (and there are hints, of course).
If you have questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
It is an older PC game, so , depending on your OS, you may have to install it in Windows compatibility mode. Have fun!