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Colossus Chess

1984 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Colossus Chess is a series of chess-playing computer programs developed by Martin Bryant, commercially released for various home computers in the 1980s.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Colossus Chess” as 1984 video game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Colossus, Chess and video.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 22-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Colossus, Chess and video providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Colossus Chess” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.