Colossus Chess X
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Colossus Chess X is the first 16-bit adaptation of the chess games series by Martin P. Bryant.
This fully-fledged program understands all the rules of chess, including underpromotion, the fifty move rule and draws by repetition; it can achieve the king-bishop-knight mate. The new features are a modifiable opening book of 11000 moves, the program also learns new lines of play from playing experience. You can also play against the clock, try a blindfold mode or use the program to solve mating problems.
Apart from the standard 2D board there's a 3D one, which can be freely rotated. Four graphical chess piece sets are available, as well as music & speech, and a demonstration mode.
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| (c) 1988 |
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- ST Format
- May 1990 (Issue #10) - Included in the list "ST Format's 30 Kick-Ass Classics"
Copy Protection
The CD DOS release has a spiral bound manual. Along the bottom of each the first twenty-four pages are five groups of ten characters, when a game of Chess, Backgammon or Draughts starts the player is prompted for character x on page y. The player gets two chances to get this right before the game freezes and plays a continuous, annoying, note.
Classical Music
Only the Atari and Amiga versions have optional background classical music, the PC version only uses speaker beeps.
The four tunes are: Chopin: Prelude No.28, Debussy: Claire de Lune, Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata and Gonoud: Ave Maria.
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Game added by Rola.
Additional contributors: piltdown_man, Rwolf, Jo ST.
Game added January 4, 2013. Last modified January 22, 2024.