.........1.........2.........3.........4.........5.........6.........7.........8 Check Mate by Peter Zoetewey from Your Sinclair #15 (Mar.1987) Long after man had disappeared from the surface of planet Sol III, the robots lived on. The leisure complex under the polar icecap buzzed with activity, as robots, androids and cyborgs played and replayed the huge mechanical games. Oddly, they began to choose certain games more than others, the most popular being Check Mate, a strategy game based on a chess board. As the control droid, you must construct a chess board by toggling the huge squares, whilst avoiding the laser spitting Cursordroids. As each square is set, another is toggled randomly across the board, so your work is really cut out for you! So, control droid, sit back and bend your mind to Check Mate. The game couldn't be simpler this time around. Astonishingly enough, the listing is all in Basic(!), with machine code 2-channel music, and super (jolly dee) graphics, all loading up from DATA statements. -- Another Fine Product transcribed by: Jim Grimwood (jimg@globalnet.co.uk), Weardale, England --