Chess

[Jim Battle]

Dave Dunfield wrote:
>> any thoughts on vintage chess games?
> 
> One of the earliest ones that I used was called:
> 
> CHESS MASTER
> Copyright 1978 by SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, Norco, California
> 
> and sold by Dynacomp for NorthStar DOS. I ran it
> using a single-density N* controller in my Altair.

Processor Technology had a chess program.  I have the program and manual 
on my sol web site (http://www.sol20.org/programs.html, look for 
"chess").  The manual was recreated from a xeroxed copy of the original, 
sans covers, so if there is a date for the program, I don't know it. 
However, there was an errata published 9/78, so the program must predate 
that.

Here is a screen capture of a game just in progress:

     http://www.sol20.org/screens/chess.gif

I recall a 6502 "microchess," although I never used it.  A quick google 
shows it was originally written for the KIM-1, using about 1KB of RAM. 
It came out in 1976.

     http://www.benlo.com/microchess/Kim-1Microchess.html
     http://6502.org/source/games/uchess/uchess.htm

and plenty of others.