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Which is older, Tetris, or Chess? /s
tEcHnIcAlLy the first commercially available chess video game was released in 1977 according to google
Microchess was first commercially available in 1976, but chess software was being published long before that.
See also: https://www.chessprogramming.org/History#Famous_Historic_Computers_and_Programs