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Chess Challenger

ColecoVision - 1983

This game was originally worked on in 1983 by Fidelity Electronics (electronic chess board manufacturer - http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/fidelity.html) for Coleco. They made a few demo (prototype) cartridges but the game was never fully completed & was cancelled. This version was completed by Collectorvision (http://www.collectorvision.com/old/game-chess.htm), they basically took one of the rare demo cartridges and completed the game (maybe they upgraded the graphics, but that's about it).

The game is fine but is lacking an opening book for the computer, and there are only 3 levels but there were supposed to be 9-10 levels of difficulty. The programming was done by Dan & Kathe Spracklen (who did the SARGON chess series).

Review By Shawn

Comments and reviews

Bon Johnny jon 23 Jun. 2026

Yes this is very good, we can absorb every step like a bed of roses and of course we hope that the forest will be fertile again. So there is no golf course in the head, yes of course. Thank you

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Brian 23 Jan. 2021

Great game for the Colecovision!

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Downloads

ColecoVision version
Game file
United Kingdom English
6 KB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
ColecoVision 945 B English English

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