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Subject: Re: smallest chess engine i recall

Author: William Bryant

Date: 19:05:06 04/04/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 17:09:48, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

Dan,
I compiled it without difficulty using Codewarrior for the Mac.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com



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