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Subject: Re: Code of CHESS 4.5 available?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 18:04:07 06/16/00

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On June 16, 2000 at 20:54:22, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On June 16, 2000 at 20:15:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 16, 2000 at 15:02:31, Oliver Roese wrote:
>>
>>>I recall, i saw a printout of horrible quality in a book, some long time ago.
>>>So i know the code is available for the public. But it seems not to be found on
>>>the net somehere.
>>>Or am i wrong here?
>>>
>>>Oliver Roese
>>
>>
>>Note that it was written in Compass (CDC assembly language).  I am sure it is
>>laying around somewhere... I used to have a copy of it myself.  However, it was
>>very hard to read...
>
>
>I remember that I have read somewhere that Chess 4.x was entirely written in
>Fortran 77.
>
>Well you must know better than me, as you have met the authors of the program...
>
>
>    Christophe

I believe that it was written entirely in Fortran 77, but when running on a CDC,
much of the code was replaced with equivalent hand-coded assembly.
-Tom



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