The computer takes so long to calculate its moves that the game has been described as resembling correspondence chess.

On the B side of the tape Suonio wrote a version of John Conway's Game of Life for the Telmac.

Per requests from Topdata's customers, the Prosessori magazine published a guide about how to save a chess game in progress onto cassette tape and resume it later.

If the player wishes to see the positions of the chess pieces, they have to replicate the game situation on a physical chessboard.

[7] According to Markku Reunanen and Manu Pärssinen Chesmac can still not be seen as a "start" for the video games industry in Finland but instead as an "interesting exceptional case".