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  • 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…

    I believe Cyrus Is Chess - 48k was found to be the best, though Colossus 4 Chess played a very good game as well. IIRC one of the Speccy mags played the games against each other to discover the best.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2007 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…

    I'm hopeless at chess? Queen goes on ... was reading once that the best tactic to use against a chess ... program (on a timed game) was to go ... the time available to the chess program. Whereas if playing ... the game book the chess program spends almost no ...
    dekh dekh May 2007 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…

    ... crippled Voice Chess so much as that it was just a ... fairly quick port of an old ZX81 chess ... game that was comparatively weak to ... Artic's Spec Chess.

    Psion Chess (OK, it' ... amount of RAM which was how they managed to ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 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…

    ... the time available to the chess program. Whereas if playing from ... the game book the chess program spends almost no time ... the effect mentioned above. It was a totally unknown opening and ...
    ADJB ADJB May 2007 Games
  • Speccy 48k+ software packWhen my dad bought our Speccy 48k+ all those years ago it came with a software pack. I was trying to remember what it came with. These are the ones I…

    Yes, it was VU-3D

    And mine also had Scrabble, Chess and Make a Chip. I'd forgotten those.

    Thanks.
    MoonMonkey MoonMonkey May 2007 Games
  • Speccy 48k+ software packWhen my dad bought our Speccy 48k+ all those years ago it came with a software pack. I was trying to remember what it came with. These are the ones I…

    [QUOTE=spider;188608]

    Scrabble
    Chequered Flag
    Make a chip
    Survival
    Chess

    [/QUOTE]

    The last one was Horace Goes Skiing , knew it would come back to me :D
    spider spider May 2007 Games
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... to be honest. The biggest was the Chess program, which (from what ... a simple Chess points system I read somewhere. It was fast ... at making moves compared to Psion Chess, which ... Go!, which was aparently older and more complicated than Chess, but no ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... anywhere. My initial thought was are you the guy ... then I thought it was Miles Kinloch's program, ... that! Mark Miktor Harris was a talented man too ... camera, the Romantic Robot one - was that you?

    chess programs in the library - ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • MILF lovingOk - I dont know what's up with the post count on here. It never seems to go up. This should be no 666 - which I'm going to celebrate with a thread a…

    ... . Glad no-one was around.

    I was thinking of songs ... thread a while ago. It was naming speccy games that could ... up - completely irrelevant - like Matchday, Chess, Fairlight etc - Madman... I just ...
    misguided_fool misguided_fool May 2007 Chit chat
  • You're gonna bloody well read this...I took the time to write this rubbish, so you can damn well read it! In the thread about Dan Brown (a third class writer who has achieved major fin…

    ... of the pieces of a Chess board appear, except for ... the standard of his writing was [I]very[/I] high. ... />
    John Cleese; he was considered to play Brian in ... , but rejected as he was considered too authorative, so ... Python's Flying Circus was not set in a ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Chit chat
  • First Spectrum Game in the HistoryDo you know which was the first videogame made for ZX Spectrum?

    The obvious answer would be Through the Wall on the Horizons tape.

    The first commercially released games would probably be the initial batch of stuff that was release on the Psion label - chess, Flight Simulation etc.
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey July 2007 Games
  • In a 100 years time..When we're all dead and buried (or cremated depending on your preference) and there's no more people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you thi…

    ... the 'sleep' or else it was way too slow, and a ... we are uncomfortable with. It was indeed a matter of chance ... is Yngwie Johann Malmsteen, my chess idol is Mikhail Tal (a ... actively opposed America (And he was actually popular in his time ...
    CaroKann CaroKann August 2007 Games
  • In a 100 years time..When we're all dead and buried (or cremated depending on your preference) and there's no more people around who actually HAD a ZX Spectrum do you thi…

    ... the 'sleep' or else it was way too slow, and a ... we are uncomfortable with. It was indeed a matter of chance ... is Yngwie Johann Malmsteen, my chess idol is Mikhail Tal (a ... actively opposed America (And he was actually popular in his time ...
    cichlasoma cichlasoma August 2007 Games
  • Completing on the first attemptWhich - if any - games can you recall completing on your first go? I remember two - Bruce Lee (of course) and Timegate.

    ... games as I thought I was.[/QUOTE]

    Ah yes ... !), but hardly ever at chess. It was quite a demon chess player actually!
    Count Count August 2007 Games
  • Sinclair Game Compilation (Sinclair Research Ltd)I remember having this or something similar (Comes on about half a dozen tapes) compiled with a ZX Spectrum. The only problem is i can't remember whi…

    I was slightly wrong now I have ... got Horace goes skiing and Chess not Hungry Horace and Treasure ... "Spectrum Six Pack" and it was a freebie with the 48K ... as the 888 compilation which was missing from infoseek until relatively ...
    ADJB ADJB August 2007 Games
  • Strongest chess program on SpectrumHi, does anyone have a clue what was the strongest chess program on the Sinclair Spectrum machines? (was it Colossus 4, or Super Chess 3.5, or PsiCh…

    ... many interesting games with Cyrus Chess.

    I found an ... speccy programs and Cyrus II was the winner with Colossus on ...
    sf_suciu sf_suciu August 2007 Games
  • What Shop Did Spectrum come fromWhat shop was your spectrum purchased at? I my mum got ours for Christmas 1983 from W.H.Smith in Oxford. The guy in the shop asked my Mum if she wa…

    ... . I think what he meant was 16K or 48K. I can ... now that this staff member was a forerunner to the average ... , I'm pretty sure it was Boots, Christmas 1985 - I would ... , Survival, Scrabble, Horace Goes Skiing, Chess, Chequered Flag) in the shopping ...
    gasman gasman September 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Wii vs 360 vs PS3Wii takes the lead Wii = 10.57 mil sales 360 = 10.51 mil sales PS3 = 4.11 mil sales

    ... of its control method, it was one i looked forward to ... the DS i can play. (chess, suduko - not porn)
    mile mile September 2007 Chit chat
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... through each other in a chess board without colliding, I don ... 's what I mean, I was going to put the word ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • I've just has a vist from the Jehovah's.I've just has a vist from the Jehovah's Witnesses (of was it the pastie's grandad). Apparently the end of the system is comming very soon. :o I jus…

    ... will betray me", when Jesus was arrested, St. Peter ( ... or St. Paul, was it?) told Jesus that he ... the guards that Jesus was the one they wanted, ... beat any human at chess, broadcast TV or telephone ... a spacecraft, or a Chess computer, or satellite signals, ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2007 Chit chat
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... fix this, since my code was based on "jumping out of ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Development
  • improvements to gameshello while i playing a few spectrum games,i thought how better some games would be better with an improvement:- automania-128k tune,less grating t…

    ... ).

    PSI Chess - needs on-screen menus and ... a decent Chess engine (sometimes it seemed ... Think! too, but that was too easy when you' ... Wars, but 3D Starstrike was such a better game ... , who claimed that it was shipped without his approval), ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2008 Games
  • any one seen the top 10 games from retro gamer???are they crazzy??? what the hell??? the top 2 I've never even heard of... turbo esprit on 16th??? no nightmare rally, trantor or match day?(and I…

    ... saying you don't like chess, as far as I'm ... people don't enjoy playing chess but that doesn't mean ... the time I thought it was amazing how you created these ... /> I don't think it was until real time strategy games ...
    jamielemon jamielemon March 2008 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 …

    ... topics, one asking which was the best Chess game for the Spectrum ... .php?t=15996&highlight=chess"]this[/URL]
    of interest ...
    Arjun Arjun March 2008 Games
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... /> chuck man
    cyrus is chess
    dinky digger
    dragonsbane ... or nothing reviewed as that was always high up on Your ... games ever, always thought that was a april fools/hoax ?!)
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... /> chuck man
    cyrus is chess
    dinky digger
    dragonsbane ... or nothing reviewed as that was always high up on Your ... games ever, always thought that was a april fools/hoax ?!)[/QUOTE ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • don't want to play it type of gamesive never got on well with flight sims strategy games (rts etc) space games such as elite games such as the sentinel they normally have way too man…

    ... , but it looks rather like chess, something I can't stand ... liked top down shooters..and was absolute guff at R-type ...
    Ælita Ælita April 2008 Games
  • R@RE as hens...erm...feathersI've just got back from a car boot sale this morning... Someone was selling a cassette storage drawer with a few Spectrum tapes in it for ?3.00 ... …

    ... this morning...

    Someone was selling a cassette storage drawer ... a copy of Chequered flag, Chess, Horace goes skiing, a couple ... last summer, the edge connector was all rusty, the power supply ... socket was missing and the case looked ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk May 2008 Chit chat
  • myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.

    ... the site I thought it was great, something new, more ... first came along, he was the bees knees, then ... main reason for posting was to ask if the RZX ... compatible emulator if it was possible to add this ... anyone has ever played Fritz chess online, the program has ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Good, free chess game?I have taken Vista Ultimate off my desktop PC because I was not happy with it. One thing I will miss is the decent chess game that came with Vista. …

    [QUOTE=mel the bell;286151]TCH! chess is crap
    stick with solitaire and pinball that come with xp :D[/QUOTE]

    'And solitaire's the only game in town'

    When was the last time you played solitaire with a real pack of cards?
    chop983 chop983 July 2008 Chit chat
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