Today I ran a chess game between the Gameboy playing Chessmaster and the Atari ST playing Battle Chess. According to the rules that I have made for myself the Gameboy and the Atari played at level 1. The current ELO rating for the Gameboy is 1482, and 1527 for Atari. The winner is the Gameboy, the game record is below the the specs.
Here are the specs of the systems:
| 520ST / 1040ST | Name | Gameboy |
| Atari | Manufacture | Nintendo |
| Home Computer | Type | Handheld Console |
| USA | Origin | Japan |
| 1986 | Year | 1990 |
| End of Production | 2003 | |
| TOS + GEM | Built in Language / OS | |
| Full stroke keyboard with numeric keypad, editing keypad and 10 function keys | Keyboard / Input | Eight-way control pad Four action buttons (A, B, Start, Select) Volume potentiometer Contrast potentiometer Power switch Serial I/O (“Link cable”): 512 kbit/s with up to 4 connections in serial Cartridge I/O |
| Motorola MC 68000 | CPU | Custom Sharp LR35902 |
| 8MHz | Speed | 4.19 MHz |
| Co-Processor | ||
| 512 kb – 4MB | RAM | 8-32kb + 8kvram |
| 32 KB with TOS on disk / 192 KB with TOS on ROM | ROM | |
| 40 or 80 chars. x 25 lines (bitmapped graphics) | Text Modes | |
| 16 colors among 512 (320 x 200) / 4 colors among 512 (640 x 200) / monochrome (640 x 400) this last mode needs a special monitor. | Graphics mode | 160 X 144 |
| Max 512 | Colors | 2-bit 4 shades of grey |
| 3 voices + 1 noise channel, 8 octaves (Yamaha YM-2149) | Sound | 2 pulse wave generators, 1 PCM 4-bit wave sample (64 4-bit samples played in 1×64 bank or 2×32 bank) channel, 1 noise generator, and one audio input from the cartridge.[30] The unit has only one speaker, however the headphone port outputs stereo sound. 2 |
| Cartridge, Midi (in, out), Centronics, RS232c, Hard Disk, Floppy disk, RGB, Joystick, mouse | I / O Ports | |
| 3.5” disk-drive | Built in Media | |
| Price |
