Chess in TRS-80 Basic

[neglectoru]

The December 1981 issue of Creative Computing has a BASIC Program called Chess C.4, by Michael Rakaska. I believe that it may have originally been written for TRS-80 basic (judging by the mentions of CLOAD and some of the choice of print characters.)

 

Does anyone have more information about this? I'd love to play a version of this in an emulator, but tracking down collections of TRS-80 basic programs has proved fruitless. I considered typing it in, but the quality of scan I found is very poor)

 

Other Chess programs in BASIC (or with source code) for the TRS-80 would also be interesting...

[jhd]

Alas, I have never seen such a thing.

 

TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter and, later, Hot Coco published versions of Go (or Othello, memory fades) for the Coco, but I do not ever recall having seen a version of Chess implemented in BASIC.

 

This website has a huge quantity of books containing listings of games in BASIC: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books-generic.htm Most look to be very introductory, but there may be something there about Chess.

[JamesD]

I think there was a chess written in BASIC for the Model I but it was pretty limited.

[Mr SQL]

There was another CoCo Chess program written in BASIC with a semigraphics board with letters vs. inverse video letters for the pieces (P,K,N,B,R,Q) released by T&D subscription software - T&D released everything so you should be able to find it on the CoCo boards...