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Subject: Re: smallest chess engine i recall

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 11:14:07 04/04/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 11:52:17, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:

>
>Just remembered that in the "old" days when i has my Spectrum 48K ( OHH yes a
>real power beast :) ) i had a chess program, that was approx. 1KB in size, it
>played real bad , but then again 1KB, what can you expect.
>
>Has anyone seen smaller programs, or what is the smallest you ever seen ?
>
>Kim Roper.

The smallest program, and it is probably the one you posses was written by Peter
Jennings. It was originally written for a hand held 6502 in machine language and
later ported to the TRS-80 (4k), the Apple and the Comodore. It came on a
cassette tape and sold over one million copies. Peter Jennings retired to
Canada.
The smallest program written in Basic (GW or Radio Shack) was about 4K.
I have copies of them.
Bill




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