Tronsoft Games · Interactive Fiction

The Chessmen of Mars

after the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1922

Tara of Helium walks out of her father's banquet in a temper, takes a one-woman flier up into a rising wind, and is blown off the map. What she finds at the end of it is a city that settles its arguments over a board ten paces to the square, with living warriors for pieces — and she is what the next game is played for.