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Opposed to the 1982 stable mate [[1K ZX Chess]] by [[David Horne]], which takes less than one [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte KiB] or [[Memory|memory]], ZX Chess requires the 16 KiB expansion.
The development took about one year, and ZX Chess was Artic's initial top seller, with no author mentioned on the booklet.
[[Chris A. Thornton]], credited as author of [[Spectrum Chess]] and [[Turbo Chess (GB)|Turbo Chess]]
<ref>[https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Chris+A%2e+Thornton$&loadpics=1 Chris A. Thornton - World of Spectrum]</ref>
for the [[ZX Spectrum]], but also credited for the US market [[Championship Chess]] for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 Timex Sinclair 1000]/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000#Timex_Sinclair_1500 Timex Sinclair 1500] and [[Sinclair ZX81]] <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Championship-Chess-Software-Sinclair-Computers/dp/0835907384 Championship Chess: Software for the Timex Sinclair 1500, Timex Sinclair 1000 and Zx-81 Computers: Thornton, Chris: Amazon.com]</ref>, was likely involved in the development of ZX Chess.
