Chess

Information

Genre

Board Game - Chess

Language

BASIC

Controls

Joystick

Programmer(s)

Krause, John

Publisher

Compute!

Country

USA

License

Magazine

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 5.0/10 · Votes: 6 · Downloads: 1,691 · Hits: 6,972

Screenshots (2)

Comments (5)

• peter — 13 Mar 2020

  bigginner

• Andreas Koch — 13 Aug 2015

  Tip: Use Altirra Basic to speed up the game and game initialization. Tried it - works very good!

• Andreas Koch — 25 Aug 2012

  @Richard: When you start the original Basic game and the screen gets light-blue, you have to wait several minutes for initialization, this is normal... If you want to have a much faster init. of the game, try the Homesoft version at: http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?dl=369 This version will start instantly, but afaik it still requires Atari Basic to be present. And err, the computer still does not check if you make legal moves or not (it assumes you do)...

• richard — 19 Aug 2012

  I have two copies of this game from different sources and I can't get either of them to work...

• Muffy St. Bernard — 20 Jun 2010

  Published with acknowledged strategic limitations, but considered amazing because it was a type-in chess program that actually WORKED. So, clever piece of programming, inferior game of chess.