Knightmare Chess is a fantasy chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ) in 1996.

Knightmare Chess is played with cards that change the default rules of chess.

Hugo Myatt is a British actor and theatre director, best known for his role as the dungeon master Treguard in the children's game show Knightmare.

His original novels include Knightmare ( a historical fantasy adventure series set in the early 13th century that ties in with the television series of that name ), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the contemporary horror novel Lost Souls.

He had many television and film roles, including that of Henry VII in the first episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ); Sir Watkyn Bassett in the television version of Jeeves and Wooster ( 1990 to 1993 ); and Merlin and Mogdred in the children's adventure game programme Knightmare ( 1987 – 1990 ).

A few months later he returned to the role of Treguard once more with an appearance in the pilot episode of Knightmare VR, an intended update of the original Knightmare television series.

However, she apologised after she saw Knightmare for herself, noting that there was no gore and Treguard always made it clear that the dungeoneers still survived in " their own time ".

At its peak in 1991 / 1992, Knightmare attracted approximately 4-5 million viewers an episode ( at that time a very high figure for a children's TV series ).

At this point, there was still hope that Knightmare was to return for a ninth series in 1995, as a postal address for future contestants was displayed on screen after the end of the final episode.

In the event, Knightmare was ' rested ' for the foreseeable future, partly due to the declining older audience, and partly because Tim Child felt that, while Knightmare should employ high-quality virtual reality in order to remain a cutting-edge show, such technology was not affordable at that time.

The first was in 1987, released on the Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, and Commodore 64, and the second Knightmare game in 1991, released on the Amiga and Atari ST. A PC version was proposed for 1995, but the programme finishing put an end to these plans.

A brand new theme tune was created for Knightmare VR and for the very first time it had lyrics, Which consisted of the words " Knightmare, it's a Knightmare " being vocoded to the music.

Treguard awards the Silver Spurs of Squiredom, the original prize for mastering Knightmare, to one of the show's winning teams.

The game was a major inspiration for the Children's ITV show Knightmare.

On the call of " Enter, Stranger ", the first member of the team ( the " dungeoneer ") enters Knightmare Castle via an antechamber belonging to Treguard of Dunshelm ( played by Hugo Myatt ).

Mary Whitehouse was initially critical of this latter aspect of the programme ( i. e. the simulated fatal demise of the dungeoneers ) after having been given a macabre description of Knightmare by the press.

Knightmare was conceived by Tim Child in 1985, inspired by the two ZX Spectrum games Atic Atac and Dragontorc.

After two meetings, it was agreed that an 8th series of Knightmare would go ahead in 1994, but it would be a shorter run ( 10 episodes instead of 15 / 16 episodes ), and the remainder of the season's timeslot would be taken over by Virtually Impossible, a new virtual reality show from Broadsword, the same production company as Knightmare, and aimed at this younger audience.

In August 2009, a campaign was started by the official Knightmare fan site to get a release of the series on DVD after other failed attempts and lack of interest from ITV Entertainment.

A Knightmare board game was also released in 1992, by MB Games.

After Knightmare ended on ITV, it was quickly picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel, which broadcast all eight series starting from the channel's launch in November 1995.

Knightmare was included in this, and the repeats started on 23 December 2002, with Series 3, Episode 1 preceded by a short 2. 5 minute documentary featuring Tim Child and Hugo Myatt.

Just over a week later, Knightmare went on to reach first place in an Internet poll held by Challenge, asking viewers to decide the best show out of the Cult Selection.

On 25 November 2002, only 6 days after the Challenge repeats were confirmed, it was announced that a reformat of Knightmare was to be undertaken by Televirtual, founded by Tim Child.

* Alpha Knightmare Frame, used by the " Irregulars " in the manga version of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

* Lancelot Albion, a Knightmare Frame mecha from Code Geass, piloted by Suzaku Kururugi

The sets are known as Knightmare Chess 1 and Knightmare Chess 2 ; a single 160 card deck can be created by shuffling both decks together.

The graphics in the English version of the Knightmare Chess cards are dark fantasy style, nightmarish ( hence the pun Knightmare ) color paintings by Brazilian artist Rogerio Vilela.

Roberts joined The Rod Squad, led by former Knightmare II vocalist Dennis " The Rod " Carlock, with whom he recorded the " Body Heater " 7 " in 1990.

Treguard ( played by Hugo Myatt ) in his antechamber, as he looked during Series 1 and 2 ( 1987 and 1988 ) of Knightmare.

One of the first tenants of EPIC was Televirtual, a company formed out of Broadsword Productions which made Anglia's legendary children's show Knightmare.

The first time Hugo met Tim Child, the creator of Knightmare, was while he was working as line producer on Anglia Television's regional news programme About Anglia with his wife, the then-presenter Christine Webber.

While the essence of Knightmare remained the same, there was also much change and development throughout its series.

A second 20 minute pilot was filmed on 27 and 28 January 1987, with the name changed from Dungeon Doom to Knightmare, and ' life force ' added, an idea borrowed from the computer game Atic Atac, which also influenced the show in other ways.

Although she thought well of Knightmare, the average audience age of CITV was now 6-10, down from 6-15 in 1985.

From Series 1 Episode 3 of Knightmare, first broadcast on 21 September 1987.

Knightmare continued to run on Challenge until 31 March 2007, when the rights to the series expired.

This remake was released in Japan on October 25, 2002, and in North America on December 2, 2002, and features updated graphics and sound, as well as some minor changes to the gameplay, new mini-games, and the ability to play as the character Meta Knight ( in a mini-game called " Meta Knightmare ").

The Knightmare logo used from Series 1 to 5, though it continued to be used on book covers.

It was during his time on Knightmare that Hugo coined the catchphrase " Ooooooh Naaasty!

Raging Knightmare tried to use the flipper to self-right, but Tornado kept pounding on them until Shunt came in and axed Tornado.

As Dead Metal came to Shunt's aid, Tornado slammed Raging Knightmare into another CPZ wall and started pounding on them and ramming them hard.