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Killer Chess (K. Chess) , a minimalistic chess program written by Andy Thomason in Z80 Assembly or even machine code of 2.2 KiB of Memory. Killer Chess (K. Chess IV) played the First World Microcomputer Chess Championship 1980 in London, and lost its first round by default, since the program had the white pieces but could only play with black. Some hurried modifications enabled it to compete the course, but it lost all remaining games as well.

=Selected Games=

Fafner
WMCCC 1980, round 3, K. Chess IV - Fafner 2 [Event "WMCCC 1980"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "1980.09.05"] [Round "3"] [White "K. Chess IV"] [Black "Fafner 2"] [Result "0-1"]

1. d4 f5 2. c3 Nf6 3. Bg5 d5 4. f3 Nc6 5. Qd3 Bd7 6. c4 dxc4 7. Qe3 Nd5 8. Qd2 g6 9. Bf6 Nxf6 10. e4 fxe4 11. Qf4 Nxd4 12. Bxc4 Nc2+ 13. Kd2 Ba4+ 14. Bd3 Qxd3+ 15. Kc1 Nxa1 16. b4 Qc2# 0-1

Viktor
WMCCC 1980, round 4, Viktor - K. Chess IV [Event "WMCCC 1980"] [Site "London, United Kingdom"] [Date "1980.09.06"] [Round "4"] [White "Viktor"] [Black "K. Chess IV"] [Result "1-0"]

1.d4 b6 2.Nc3 Bb7 3.e4 e6 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Nxd4 6.Nxd4 Bb4 7.O-O e5 8.Ndb5 g6 9.b3 c6 10.Ba3 Bxa3 11.Nxa3 Qh4 12.Be2 Nf6 13.Qd3 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 d5 15.Nd6+ Kd7 16.Nxb7 Kc7 17.Qa6 Qe4 18.Bf3 Qd4 19.Rad1 Qf4 20.Bxd5 cxd5 21.Nb5+ Kc8 22.Nc5+ Kd8 23.Qb7 bxc5 24.Qxa8+ Kd7 25.Rxd5+ Ke7 26.Qxh8 e4 27.Qd8+ 1-0

=See also=
 * Killer by Kees de Kruif
 * Killer by Mario Carbonell Martinez, German Blanquer and Alvaro Benlloch
 * Killer Heuristic
 * Killer Move
 * Losing Chess
 * Mate Killers

=Related Publications=
 * Michael Basman (1991). The Killer Grob. Pergamon Chess Series, ISBN-13: 978-0080371313, from amazon.com
 * Aaron Summerscale (1999). A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire. Cadogan Chess Books, ISBN-13: 978-1857445190, from amazon.com
 * Eric Schiller, Raymond Keene, Leonid Shamkovich (2003). Killer Chess Tactics : World Champion Tactics and Combinations. Cardoza
 * Dover Publications (2005). Killer Chess (Boxed Set). from amazon.com
 * Danger in Chess: How to Avoid Making Blunders by Amatzia Avni
 * How Good Is Your Chess? by Daniel King
 * Why You Lose at Chess by Tim Harding


 * Aaron Summerscale, Sverre Johnsen (2010). A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire. Enlarged edition, Gambit Publications Limited, ISBN 13: 978-1-906454-18-0

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * K. Chess' ICGA Tournaments

Misc

 * SoundChess : Killer Chess Openings
 * Killer (disambiguation page) from Wikipedia
 * Killer application from Wikipedia
 * Alexander Pichushkin from Wikipedia
 * Attack of the Killer Tomatoes from Wikipedia
 * Queen - Killer Queen (1974), YouTube Video

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