Tommy's Chess Set

Tommy's Chess Set is a video game in the strategy genre developed by Tommy's Toys originally released in 1986. It is currently playable on DOS.

Tommy's Chess Set is a shareware, chess game that uses character graphics.

It is quite natural, when thinking of chess games, to think of programs like IBM's Deep Blue and others of its ilk, games that play chess well enough to give anyone from amateur to grandmaster a good game. Tommy's Chess Set is not that kind of game, since it does not play chess. What it does do is give the player a computerized chess set with which he can play against another player on the same, or another machine. Alternatively, a player can set up a board representing a chess puzzle or a famous game and play it to completion.
The game uses standard chess notation and has save and restore functions, as well as backspace and undo backspace functions. Players can also add their own notes to each move and review them when replaying a game.

The game is controlled entirely with the keyboard. It has basic sound effects and command line switches to start the game with sound off and to force color or monochrome display.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.