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[[FILE:c64_grandmaster_emulator.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/c64_emu_-_grandmaster_chess.html| Grand Master Grandmaster Screen
<ref>[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/c64_emu_-_grandmaster_chess.html Commodore 64 Emulator - Computer Chess Game Collection - Grandmaster Chess] by [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref> ]]
'''Grandmaster''', (Boss, Grand Master, Grandmaster Chess, Schaken, Ajedrez II)<br/>
a chess program initially developed by [[Fritz Schäfer]] <ref>[http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Grand_Master Grand Master - Software Details - Plus/4 World]</ref>
under the name ''Boss'' for the [[Commodore VIC-20]], later ported for the [[Commodore 64]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_16 Commodore 16],
and released in 1982 through Schäfer's former Homecomputer Software company [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsoft_GmbH Kingsoft],
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogenic Audiogenic] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom UK].
[[The Spacious Mind]] considers Grand Master Grandmaster as one of the strongest chess programs available on home computers at that time
<ref>[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/commodore_c64_grandmaster_ches.html Commodore 64/128 Old Computer Chess Game Collection - Grandmaster Chess] by [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref>.
