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Subject: Re: smallest chess engine i recall

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:09:48 04/04/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 16:43:06, Pete Galati wrote:
>On April 04, 2000 at 14:18:08, Andrew Dados wrote:
>>On April 04, 2000 at 14:04:52, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>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 ?
>>>
>>>http://www.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html
>>>
>>>vern.c
>>
>>Source is small, not sure about exe...
>
>I didn't find a way to compile it with djgpp, and it's own makefile was a bit
>heavy duty for me to work with.  Maybe someone else can make it work.  A quick
>look at one of the files indicates that you'd make the pieces move the same very
>long-hand way as the small Chess program that Eugene posted a while back (not on
>the easy side, but posible).

It only builds on a UNIX like system.  Requires sed, etc.



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