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  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been ... adding anything new into what was already a very stressed bit ... of coding was proving impossible. So, after a ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed September 2017 Development
  • Board and board style games on the SpectrumWhat good board games, or good games that are sort of board games, are there on the Speccy? I ask because I've just loaded up Scrabble (Psion) for th…

    ... it is.

    Psion Chess was very good too, I seem ... to remember. Psi Chess wasn't too good, despite ... 's outstanding graphics, as it was extremely unfriendly, and could sometimes ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2005 Games
  • Zaxon's Micro DivMMC problems<p>Hi all,</p><p>I received Zaxon's excellent micro divMMC in the post a few weeks ago for my 48K rubber-key (the micro version of divMMC fits nicely…

    ... until yesterday evening.  I was just wondering if maybe ... plight!)I was playing a game of Psion Chess (loaded ... t want to play chess any more and wanted ... mayhem in Bak2Skool.  While Chess was still 'saving' I pushed ... So I waited until Chess had stopped saving (this ...
    namtip namtip June 2015 Hardware
  • Best chess game on SpeccyNot the most exciting topic in the world, but I'd like to know what you think was the best attempt at the ancient game on the Speccy. I remember a bi…

    PSI Chess was a fairly polished looking Spectrum chess game, but I can' ... org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Psi+Chess$&pub=^The+Edge+Software ... org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Psi+Chess$&pub=^The+Edge+ ... />

    [ This Message was edited by: WhizzBang on 2004 ...
    WhizzBang WhizzBang August 2004 Games
  • Chess games for PCs or consolesCan anyone recommend any modern chess games? I used to play when I was young (i.e. I used to load Cyrus and lose consistently) and I'm thinking of jo…

    Well i would reccomend getting an amiga emulator and play Battlechess,

    also, if you can find it on ebay, Star Wars Chess was quite good
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    which chess was the one that had einstein in the loading screen? (or some other old guy)

    the one im talking bout was like 3d (yes, on ZX). anybody know?
    vorton vorton May 2007 Games
  • The best Chess, Tetris, Poker, Monopoly etc games?I was going to create two topics, one asking which was the best Chess game for the Spectrum, and one asking which was the best Tetris game, but then …

    ... does Leisure Genius' Scrabble. Psi Chess was one of the better ones.
    RND RND March 2008 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    [quote=vorton;188435]which chess was the one that had einstein ... /> the one im talking bout was like 3d (yes, on ZX ... Draught's Genius, not a Chess game?
    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Games
  • Psion programs in infoseekCan you please let me have a look at the original permission from Psion to include their software for free download? I have contacted them recently …

    ... />
    Actually Psion's QL Chess was written by Richard Lang. No ...
    rwap rwap February 2011 Infoseek database
  • Psion programs in infoseekCan you please let me have a look at the original permission from Psion to include their software for free download? I have contacted them recently …

    ... />
    Actually Psion's QL Chess was written by Richard Lang. No ... /> Psion's Chess for the Spectrum and ZX81 was written by someone ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2011 Infoseek database
  • Empire Strikes Back ( Parker Bros, not Domark )I may be going doolally but I'm sure I've seen a conversion of the Atari 2600 Empire Strikes Back on the Speccy, but it was called something else. A…

    ... here.

    Star Chess was listed with me as the ... my version of Star Chess won a Granada TV ... funny thing is, it was my brother in Manchester told ... .

    I was given ?150 of spending money ... Age Software, and Star Chess is apparently missing in ...
    DKVFX DKVFX March 2011 Games
  • Best chess game?Thought I'd ask which Spectrum chess program plays the best game? Never had chess on the speccy myself. Used to play a chess cartridge on the vic-2…

    ChessMaster and Cyrus Chess I reckon are some of the best. Mind you, I thought Psion Chess was pretty good too but then I'm not exactly very good at chess! ;)
    Arjun Arjun April 2011 Games
  • Best chess game?Thought I'd ask which Spectrum chess program plays the best game? Never had chess on the speccy myself. Used to play a chess cartridge on the vic-2…

    Psion chess was always my favourite
    Macc Macc April 2011 Games
  • Best chess game?Thought I'd ask which Spectrum chess program plays the best game? Never had chess on the speccy myself. Used to play a chess cartridge on the vic-2…

    [QUOTE=Macc;523459]Psion chess was always my favourite[/QUOTE]

    Agreed. They got it right first time :)
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy April 2011 Games
  • What's the oldest game you still play?What's the oldest video game, on any system (computer/console/arcade/etc) that you still play? Myself, I would have said probably Manic Miner or PSIO…

    ... are so authentic! PSION Chess was very good (well, I ... and GNU Chess and Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess are both ... great PC versions (GNU Chess is on the PSP ...
    [B]WHY[/B] was this never brought to the ... us. The Spectrum version was very authetic too.
    ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2013 Chit chat
  • Does anyone know why The Edge released Fairlight II twice?Can anyone clear this up? The original Fairlight II release appears to be a 48/128K dual release, in that if you have a 128K machine it loads both p…

    PSI Chess was quite a nice looking game.
    DavidB DavidB April 2013 Games
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... www.dailytech.com/Worlds+Smallest+Chess+Code+is+a+Cheating+Novice ... only one I could run was 1K Chess then I'd have ... not necessarily use, which Chess game was the smallest, out of ... /> Anyway, according to Wikipedia, 1K Chess was written by David Horne, and ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The first Spectrum ChessI checked a little bit, which was first published chess program for the Spectrum. I narrowed the choice to Spectrum Chess (Artic) or Chess Player (Q…

    First game that came to my mind when reading the thread title was Psion Chess... but just checked infoseek and read that Psion Chess was released in 1983... curious!
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez September 2015 Games
  • Chess VariationsI think a good idea would be to have a Spectrum Chess game with all the good variations in : like the Andernach chess variation which is listed in …

    ... scans/1kchess/"]1K ZX Chess[/url] by David ... url="http://www.nanochess.org/chess.html"]Toledo Atomchess[/url] ... url="http://www.nanochess.org/chess.html"]Toledo Atomchess[/url] ... Chess was never intended to be smallest chess. It was the opposite: the author was ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas January 2016 New game ideas
  • Did anybody have a QL?When I was at school in the mid 80's our computer department decided to buy a QL. I remember using one of those 'Turtle' type programmes where you w…

    There was a few games. I believe several of the platform games were quite good, and the chess was very good.
    DavidB DavidB September 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... totally irrelevant fact, ZX81 1K chess was actually 676 bytes, though that ... actually does play chess and not just look all ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed June 2018 Development
  • How Many Games Exist in Both 16K versions and 48K Versions ? I have found one ( Dallas (CCS) 1982 but there could be some more

    ... machine the ROM cart for Chess worked fine and did not ... played a quick game. I was worried it might of used ... 't the issue with Psion Chess that it's about 11Kb ... on a 16Kb machine. IIRC Chess was the only game that took ...
    MartynC MartynC November 2020 Games
  • Gary Kasparov on Ukraine CrisisI was talking about Ukraine in another thread, but I posted it in the wrong forum, so I thought I'd start another one. I found his take on the Ukr…

    I never learned to play chess, was never really interested. I'm not sure i've even played draughts or maybe i have but have simply forgotten?
    I can play poker though, my speciality was five card stud but haven't played much for a while.
    zx1 zx1 February 2022 Chit chat
  • PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …

    ... there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge?

    was first released, and I seem ... something about the way PSI Chess is written that uses obscure ...
    Ed Ed February 2002 Games
  • Wanted: Laser ChessI remember this game from way way back. It was a game played on a chess board with the pieces on the board being different shapes and you fired a las…

    ... back. It was a game played on a chess board with the ... you fired a laser... it was a really hard game to ...
    [JJ] [JJ] April 2002 Games
  • what's the difference between old colossus chess and new colossus chess ?I (still) have two disk image files from TZX Vault, "Colossus 4 Chess - Side A.dsk" and "Colossus 4 Chess - Side B.dsk". Today, the .zip archive from…

    ... from TZX Vault, "Colossus 4 Chess - Side A.dsk" and "Colossus ... disk image file, "Colossus 4 Chess.dsk", i.e. unique disk ... />
    What's the mistery ? Was the previous one not truly ... /> Cristi

    [ This Message was edited by: secarica on 2004 ...
    secarica secarica June 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Best chess game on SpeccyNot the most exciting topic in the world, but I'd like to know what you think was the best attempt at the ancient game on the Speccy. I remember a bi…

    ... to know what you think was the best attempt at the ... on the machine (he was a big chess fan) and said that ...
    Spector Spector August 2004 Games
  • Chess games for PCs or consolesCan anyone recommend any modern chess games? I used to play when I was young (i.e. I used to load Cyrus and lose consistently) and I'm thinking of jo…

    ... any modern chess games? I used to play when I was young ... would be nice if there was a game available for the ... asphyxiation."

    [ This Message was edited by: Necros on 2004 ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Two Chess gameplay questionsI recently downloaded a Chess game for DOS, called Bobby Fischer teaches Chess (from [url="http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=2721"]http:…

    I recently downloaded a Chess game for DOS, called Bobby ... Fischer teaches Chess (from [url="http://www.the ... good, but I have two Chess related questions I'd like ... the move from when I was learning Chess years ago, but no ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I NEED A HAND FINDING A 3D CHESS GAME......WITH A HAND IN ITOk.Firstly - It's not one of the chess games in the archive with the word chess in the title. ##(Although - The ChessMaster2000 LOOKS very familiar e…

    ... not one of the chess games in the archive ... with the word chess in the title.
    ... a game))##
    It was a budget(poss re- ... br />
    [ This Message was edited by: alanspec on 2005 ... ]

    [ This Message was edited by: alanspec on 2005 ...
    alanspec alanspec May 2005 Games
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