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Subject: Re: Code of CHESS 4.5 available?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:43:50 06/16/00

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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


Another problem with the above statement.  Chess 4.x was written and running
in 1974 or 1975,  It played in the 1976 ACM event where "blitz" played in its
first ACM event.  There was _no_ Fortran 77 at that point in time.



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