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For the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear game released as "The Chessmaster", see The Chessmaster.

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Chess

System(s): Sega Mega Drive

Publisher: Padis

Developer: BSComp Ltd

Sound driver: Sound Images v1.5

Genre: Strategy

Number of players: 1 or 2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
RU	1998

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Chess called also Chessmaster for the Sega Mega Drive is an unlicensed Chess game released in 1998. Although the game does not have any support from Sega, it was included on some of the Atgames consoles.

The game is just a typical Chess game, but is played from a 2.5D perspective. The board can also be customized, and the music can also be turned off. The graphics for the chess board and pieces were stolen from The Chessmaster series of games for Windows computers.

Production credits

Programmer: Lesha Bogdanow
Additional Programs: Dmitry Usatenko
Designer: Vyacheslav Sokolov
Composer: Victor Chernov

Magazine articles

Main article: Chess (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Velikiy Drakon (RU) #60: "xxxx xxxx" (2002-09-05)
also published in:

Velikiy Drakon (RU) #61: "xxxx xxxx" (2003-02-07)^[1]

Photo gallery

Russian box art on Magistr Drive 2 box
English box art on Magistr Drive 3 box

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Cool Gamer (RU)

70

^[2]

Tricks Gold (RU)

94

^[3]

	82
Based on 2 reviews

Chess (Mega Drive)

Mega Drive, RU (Padis, 16 Битный картридж)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, RU (New Game, 16 Битный картридж, English)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, RU (New Game, 16 Битный картридж, Russian)
Cover

Mega Drive, RU (New Game, Striped spine release; English)
Cover

Mega Drive, RU (New Game, Striped spine release; Russian)

Mega Drive, RU (Gastin)

Cart

Mega Drive, RU (Gastin Re-Release)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, RU (Silver release)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, RU (K&S)
Cover

Mega Drive, UA (Saga)
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, Unknown

Cart

Mega Drive, Unknown

Cart

Multi-cart appearances

AA-12002
AA-4138
KE1802
SK-209
XXXX (as Chess)

Technical information

Main article: Chess (Mega Drive)/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	47380edd
MD5	102947ce4e33e4a90b3d45b58af8015e
SHA-1	42e56fc5543dcb40da73447b582c84c4ff50a825

512kB

1998-09

Cartridge (RU)

External links

Newgame.ru webpage

References

↑ Velikiy Drakon, "xxxx xxxx" (RU; 2003-02-07), page 68
↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 50
↑ Tricks Gold, "Sega dlya strategov" (RU; 2003-01-09), page 42

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[1] Velikiy Drakon, "xxxx xxxx" (RU; 2003-02-07), page 68

[2] Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 50

[3] Tricks Gold, "Sega dlya strategov" (RU; 2003-01-09), page 42

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+{{stub}}'''''Chess''''' called also ''''' Chessmaster''''' for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] is an unlicensed Chess game released in 1998. Although the game does not have any support from [[Sega]], it was included on some of the [[Atgames]] consoles.
 The game is just a typical Chess game, but is played from a 2.5D perspective. The board can also be customized, and the music can also be turned off. The graphics for the chess board and pieces were stolen from The Chessmaster series of games for Windows computers.
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