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Subject: Re: smallest chess engine i recall

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 08:56:04 04/05/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 16:18:53, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On April 04, 2000 at 14:14:07, William H Rogers 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.
>>
>>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),
>
>
>What was the name of this program under TRS-80? Was it MicroChess? I had this
>program, and it was indeed the only one able to run on my first TRS-80 (which
>had about 3.5K available for applications).
>
>
>    Christophe

Yes it was MicroChess, three plys and rated about 650.
>
>
>
>> 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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