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		Compucolor Chess, an early chess program written in 8080 assembly for the Compucolor and Compucolor II home computers, sold on cassette tapes [1] . Compucolor Chess played the Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament in March 1978 in the "8K or more of memory class A" [2] .
CompuColor Chess Box art [3]

Graphics Characters

The Compucolor II had 64 special graphics characters which are also available have a resolution of 384 x 256. The whole set can be seen in an accompanying photograph and they include chess pieces and card suits.

Compucolor II Charater set [4]

Publications

• Editor (1978). Some San Jose Color. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 82 » MCCT 1978, Steve Stuart Chess

External Links

• CompuColor from old-computers.com
• Compucolor II from Wikipedia
• CompuColor II from old-computers.com
• Software detail - Chess from old-computers.com

References

1. ^ Rob van Son (2011). De Assyrische krijgsman die vaak won! (Dutch) pdf hosted by Hein Veldhuis
2. ^ Larry Wagner (1978). Results of First Microcomputer Chess Tournament. Silicon Gulch Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 4, May 10, 1978, pg. 9
3. ^ Software detail - Chess from old-computers.com
4. ^ Ron de Jong (1980). The Compucolor II. Electronics Australia, March, 1980, pdf from The MESSUI Place - Computer Articles

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