The Chess Player (1982)
- Download the game as TAP/TZX
- Play the tape for a real Spectrum
- Run the game in an online ZX Spectrum emulator
The Chess Player is a board game released in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It was published by Quicksilva Ltd and developed by Martin Wren-Hilton, with inlay and poster art contributed by David John Rowe.
Designed for a single player, the game incorporates specific technical features, including Beeper Speech functionality. This implementation provides audio feedback during the match.
The game was sold on cassette for £6.95. It was released as a dedicated title for the ZX Spectrum 48K hardware.
The title holds a weighted user score of 7.24 based on 17 votes.
The game was known in the USSR as one of the available chess programs, appearing in a review in Spectrofon magazine. It was also distributed via a TR-DOS version by the group Grand and several cracked cassette releases by ZX-TOP and AIS.
Found 3 cracked versions (releases) of the game