Chess

[Bob Brown]

I had microchess on my trs-80 model I (on cassette, of course)...one
evening, we few of my friends got together..one of them also had an
Apple II....we had the trs-80 take-on the apple-II in microchess (I
think the Apple won, but I'm not sure).. (we would key one computer's
moves into the other computer as "our" move).

Retro-fun!
-Bob 


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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jim Battle
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:59 AM
To: General at harpercollege.edu; On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Chess

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.