Chess Master 2000

Originally released in 1986 for the home computer market, Chess Master 2000 was a simulation game on DOS which received ports for the Amiga, Amstrad, Commodore and Atari systems. The title very nearly earned its own version on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988 to be developed by Rare, but a stalemate was encountered when legal rights arose, causing the game to become delayed indefinitely. Picking up the pieces, the team would focus their efforts on porting the arcade version of Ivan ‘Ironman’ Stewart’s Super Off-Road to the NES instead.