Colossus+Chess

the series of chess programs by Martin Bryant developed from 1983 on an Apple II in 6502 Assembly, based on Bryant's former program White Knight. Colossus Chess 2.0 was the first commercial release in 1884 for the Commodore 64 and this and subsequent versions for other 6502, Z80, 68000 and 8086 based [|home] and [|personal computers], such as Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amiga, and finally for the IBM PC. Colossus Chess pioneered a sophisticated GUI with an optional 3D chessboard, and lot of new features for that time, and has become one of the best selling chess programs of all time. Colossus Chess played the European MCC 1983 in [|London] and the WMCCC 1984 in [|Glasgow]. || toc =Colossus Chess UCI= While the work on the commercial Colossus Chess series finished in 1991, Martin Bryant started a completely new and freely available Windows UCI version in 2004, first written in C# then converted to C, released in 2006 through 2008.
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 * [[image:Colossus_Chess_4_C64_3D.png link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colossus_Chess_4_C64_3D.png"]] ||~ || **Colossus Chess**,
 * Colossus Chess 4.0 3D board on C64 ||~ ||^ ||

=See also=
 * Legend
 * White Knight

=Publications=
 * Martin Bryant (**1984**). //Chess software for home computers//. [|Computer & Video Games], [|January 1984], [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters
 * Tony Harrington (**1984**). //Of might and men//.	[|Personal Computer News], [|November 1984], [|pdf] hosted by Mike Watters

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Interview with Martin Bryant, the Man behind Colossus] by Fernando Villegas, CCC, May 18, 2002
 * [|isn't there a new version of colossus ?] by Thorsten Czub, CCC, April 29, 2004
 * [|Colossus Chess - Still life in the old horse] by Bryan Whitby, CCC, October 21, 2005
 * [|Colossus 2007d Available] by Martin Bryant, CCC, September 22, 2007
 * [|Colossus 2008a available] by Martin Bryant, CCC, September 07, 2008
 * [|Colossus 2008b available] by Martin Bryant, CCC, September 23, 2008
 * [|Re: Colossus 2008b] by Graham Banks, CCRL Discussion Board, January 12, 2011 (Download)
 * [|Colossus 2008b] by Bryan Whitby, CCC, December 10, 2017

=External Links=
 * [|Colossus Chess] (dead)
 * [|Colossus' (Chess) ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Colossus Chess from Wikipedia]
 * [|Free Chess Downloads] by Ed Schröder
 * [|Chess Computers - The UK Story] by Mike Watters
 * [|Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by Carey, hosted by the [|Internet Archive]

Colossus 2.0

 * [|Commodore 64/128 Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Colossus 2] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Colossus Chess 2.0] from [|GameBase 64]
 * [|Colossus Chess 2.0 - Lemon - Commodore 64, C64 Games, Reviews & Music!]

Colossus 3.0

 * [|Atari 400 800 XL XE - Colossus Chess 3.0] from [|The World's Finest Atari Database]

Colossus 4.0
> [|Colossus Chess 4.0 product manual (C64)]
 * [|Colossus Chess 4.0] from [|The Gamebase Collection]
 * [|Commodore 64/128 Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Colossus 4] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Colossus Chess 4.0 - Lemon - Commodore 64, C64 Games, Reviews & Music!]
 * [|Colossus Chess 4 - World of Spectrum]
 * [|Spectrum 48K - Old Home Computer Chess Games Collection - Colossus Chess 4.0] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Colossus Chess 4 for Amstrad CPC (1986)] from [|MobyGames]
 * [|Colossus Chess 4 for BBC Micro (1986) Ad Blurbs] - [|MobyGames]

Colossus X

 * [|Atari ST Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Colossus Chess X] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Colossus Chess X : Hall Of Light – The database of Amiga games]

Misc
> [|The Colossus of Rhodes (novel)] > [|Lorenz ciphers and the Colossus] by [|Tony Sale], [|Bletchley Park] > [|The Fall of Colossus] > [|Colossus and the Crab] > [|Mark Clarke], [|Clem Clempson], Chris Farlowe, [|Dave Greenslade], [|Dick Heckstall-Smith], [|Jon Hiseman] > media type="youtube" key="joujh2jLL1A"
 * [|Colossi of Memnon from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colossus of Rhodes from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colossus computer from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colossus (novel) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colossus: The Forbin Project (film) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colosseum from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colosseum (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Colosseum] - [|Rope Ladder to the Moon], [|YouTube] Video

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