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I seem to remember some chess game that was written that accounted for the memory drum hardware that used it which i would think would be the gold standard... might be this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess
Sorry for nitpicking, but the notion of Sinclair ZX81 ever using drum memory is rather comical — seeing as the latter is quite a humongous hunk of junk.
Drum memory predates the Sinclair by quite a while. But there is an often repeated story involving an impossibly-optimised Blackjack program for a drum memory computer called "The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer".