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    From Fritz Wuehler@fritz@spamexpire-202410.rodent.frell.theremailer.net to alt.privacy on Tuesday, October 01, 2024 02:40:52
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    Well, if you read this message, QSL still works

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  • From noreply@noreply@mixmin.net to alt.privacy on Tuesday, October 01, 2024 02:44:02
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    On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:40:52 +0200, Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202410.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:
    Well, if you read this message, QSL still works

    trs-80 users will remember this classic . . .

    (using Tor Browser 13.5.5)
    https://www.myabandonware.com/game/chess-1q2
    My Abandonware > Strategy > Chess
    Chess
    DOS - 1981
    Alt name Chess C.4
    Year 1981
    Platform DOS
    Released in United States
    Genre Strategy
    Theme Chess
    Publisher International PC Owners
    Perspective Top-Down
    4.08 / 5 - 12 votes
    DOWNLOAD
    23kb
    https://www.myabandonware.com/download/1pz-chess
    (Chess_DOS_EN.zip / 1 Files, 0 Folders), extracted . . .
    (chess.exe / 48.0 KB)
    Description of Chess
    1981, the year Chess was released on DOS. Published by International PC Owners,
    this strategy game is available for free on this page.
    External links
    Captures and Snapshots
    Comments and reviews
    Fruta 2023-05-24 0 point
    I actually think this program has to be some kind of a joke. The computer starts
    playing like a crappy chess AI and when it doesn´t have any way to save it's ass
    the king starts making illegal moves and taking your pieces like a heat seeking
    missile.
    greg 2021-01-25 -1 point
    how do i install grandmaster on dosbox
    BenRedic 2018-06-13 0 point
    I came over this game again, and a couple of things are clear:
    This is not at all a commercial grade program, it is an amateur program released
    into Public Domain. The game is originally written in BASIC ca 1980. This means
    it predates MS-DOS/PC-DOS, and was probably originally developed in BASIC on CP/M.
    The PC-SIG library (a vast collection of PD and user supported programs) contains
    at least 5 different versions of this program, all of which appear to be some >modification of the original BASIC program. Some modifications may be bugfixes or
    to enable it to run under different BASIC implementations, other simply added >PRINT statements saying where the file was downloaded from. There's also >different compiled EXEs, such as the one present here.
    BenRedic 2016-08-03 0 point
    Plays a pretty crappy game, even for it's time. And it has a weird bug; When it
    gets a completely lost, it tends to make illegal king moves:
    (level 24)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nxe5 dxe4 4.Nc3 Qd4 5.Qh5 Be6 6.Nb5 Qd5 7.Nxc7+ Ke7 8.Nxd5+ >Bxd5 9.d3 exd3 10.Bxd3 Bxg2 11.Qg5+ Nf6 12.Qxg2 Kd6 13.Nxf7+ Kc5 14.Be3+ >Illegal move Ke6.
    Kb4 is the only legal move, which would have been followed by 15.Qxb7+ and 16.Qb5#
    Plenty of better options exist if you are interested in early 80s computer chess.
    Try Psion or MyChess for MS-DOS, or Sargon or Microchess for Apple II or the >Commodore computers (PET, VIC20, C64).
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    (using Tor Browser 13.5.5)
    https://www.mobygames.com/game/15948/chess/
    ...
    Chess is one of the oldest PC games ever made: it was written in March, 1980 >and converted to IBM PC in December, 1981. This is probably the very first >chess game running in MS-DOS.
    Taking it's age into account, it's no surprise that the game features only >text-mode graphics. The chess board and the pieces are drawn using ASCII >characters. For the same reason, it's also no surprise that the user input
    is based just on keyboard commands.
    In Chess there is no multiplayer mode - you play only against the computer. >As usual, in this kind of game, you can select the A.I.'s skill level.
    The game offers 24 difficulty levels.
    ...
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