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Subject: Re: smallest chess engine i recall

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 19:56:04 04/04/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 13:49:33, Pete Galati 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 ?
>>
>>Kim Roper.
>I was going to say that the smallest Chess program that I have at the moment is
>Mychess by David Kittinger 51Kb, but I looked closer, and I have a GWbasic Chess
>program that's only 20.9Kb, it's origin is somewhat unclear.  I'd be glad to
>pass it on, but you need GW basic to run it.  GWbasic makes Qbasic seem like
>Windows95, so I wouldn't recommend it.
>
>Can anyone top 20.9?
>
>Pete

I know that the original "Atari 2600" game had a chess cartridge which I believe
was only 4k of memory including the graphics.  I met the authors and they had a
6K and an 8K version for personal use/testing but I don't think they ever became
commercial.
Jim Walker



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