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**[[Home]] * [[Engines]] * Grand Master** || [[image:Grandmaster.png link="http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=3255"]] ||~ || **Grand Master**, (Grandmaster, Grandmaster Chess, Schaken, Ajedrez II) a chess program initially developed by [[Fritz Schäfer]] <ref>[[http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Grand_Master|Grand Master - Software Details - Plus/4 World]]</ref> for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20|Commodore VIC-20]], later ported for the [[Commodore 64]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_16|Commodore 16]], and released in 1982 through Schäfer's former Homecomputer Software company //Kingsoft// <ref>[[http://www.videospielgeschichten.de/kingsoft.html|Kingsoft - Die Könige der deutschen Heimcomputersoftware]] by [[http://www.videospielgeschichten.de/autoren.html#autor_karsten_uhl|Karsten Uhl]], [[http://www.videospielgeschichten.de/|Videospielgeschichten.de]], October 2011 (German)</ref>, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogenic|Audiogenic]] in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom|UK]]. [[The Spacious Mind]] considers Grand Master as one of the strongest chess programs available on Home Computers at that time <ref>[[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/commodore_c64_grandmaster_ches.html|Commodore 64/128 Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Grandmaster Chess]] by [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref>. || || Grand Master Screen <ref>[[http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=3255|Grandmaster | GB64.COM]]</ref> ||~ ||^ || [[toc]] =See also= * [[Grandmaster Chess]] * [[Various Classifications#Masters|Masters]] * [[PocketGrandmaster]] =Forum Posts= * [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54404&start=2|Re: Legacy hardware emulator chess championship?]] by [[Stan Arts]], [[CCC]], November 22, 2014 =External Links= ==C64 Chess Program== * [[http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Grand_Master|Grand Master - Software Details - Plus/4 World]] * [[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/commodore_c64_grandmaster_ches.html|Commodore 64/128 Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Grandmaster Chess]] by [[The Spacious Mind]] * [[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/c64_emu_-_grandmaster_chess.html|Commodore 64 Emulator - Computer Chess Game Collection - Grandmaster Chess]] by [[The Spacious Mind]] * [[http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=3255|Grandmaster | GB64.COM]] * [[http://project64.c64.org/games/0-l/Grand_Master.txt|Grand Master.txt]] from [[http://project64.c64.org/index.htm|Project 64 Home page]] ==Misc== * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_%28chess%29|Grandmaster (chess) from Wikipedia]] =References= <references /> =What links here?= [[include page="Grand Master" component="backlinks" limit="20"]] **[[Engines|Up one Level]]**