The Final Chesscard, a chess playing entity by TASC, developed by Marc Derksen, and forerunner of the famous ChessMachine. As independent chess computer it ran at 5 MHz on a 65C02 processor with 64 Kib ROM and RAM each, inside an expansion-cartridge of a host home- or personal computer, as already realized in 1986 with the The Final Cartridge III by Riska B.V. with Wil Sparreboom and Marc Derksen involved [1] [2]. The Final Chesscard, first released in 1989 for Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers, was also available as pluggable ISA card for the IBM PC. Rather than a dedicated board, it used a for that time sophisticated GUI with 2D Graphics Board of its host.
The Final Chesscard GUI [3]

Circuit Board

The Final Chesscard Circuit Board [4]

External Links

• Tasc The Final Chess Card Electronic Chess Computer Card For Commodore 64/128, The Spacious Mind
• The Final Chesscard for Commodore 64 (1989) - MobyGames
• Lemon - Commodore 64, C64 Games, Reviews & Music! | The Final Chesscard
• GB64.COM - C64 Games | The Final Chesscard
• ASC The Final ChessCard from Schachcomputer.info Wiki (German)
• RetroComputer - Eine Sammlung diverser Retro-Hardware ab den 70ern | Cartridge - The Final Chesscard (German)

References

1. ^ Final Cartridge III Manual Project64.txt
2. ^ Welcome to Project 64!
3. ^ CSDb - Final Chesscard Preview by Lutschers (1990)
4. ^ C64 Zubehör | CBMHARDWARE.DE (German)

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