It was great. I was 10. I needed to be able to win once in a while, and I did.

They were laughing because they were early neckbeards. They probably had 16k of ram on their fancy BBC Micros.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess

https://youtu.be/U8RERRfDYYI

Yup! I remember it so well. I even remember seeing this ad in a magazine and ordering it. I was 10 years old, and built it with my dad.

I also remember going to a home computer sale, and men with beards and long hair laughing that I was buying 1k Chess to play on my new computer.

I wish I still had mine. 3D monster maze, 1k chess, nightgunner, gulpman.

My neighbor had a zx80. I remember playing a game on that too, but i don’t remember what it was.