Author: Yngvi Bjornsson
Date: 19:37:09 06/16/00
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According to the authors article in "Chess Skill in Man and Machine" Chess 4.x was written entirely in assembly, whereas Chess 3.6 was a mixture of Fortran and assembly. -Yngvi On June 16, 2000 at 21:04:07, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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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