Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:37:30 04/05/00
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On April 05, 2000 at 16:13:00, Jonathan Lee wrote: >On April 05, 2000 at 00:13:26, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On April 04, 2000 at 22:56:04, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>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 >> >>I guess they couldn't manage to sell the 1 piece tablebase idea, who would know >>back then. 4k, impressive. I have an old "Compute" magazine from '84 that has >>all sorts of basic code, a game called "Reflection" for different kinds of basic >>on different computers, but no Chess code, and I looked thought this thing >>several times looking for someone who sold Chess programs back then, couldn't >>find anyone. That was mildly irritating. >> >>Pete >1. Compute! Magazine had a chess program. You can make illegal moves and there >was no castling. >2. Reflection also from Compute! was a reversi/othello program. It was beatable. >3. Chess Genius 2 was created in 1993 with a rating over 2400. It has under >55,000 bytes. You need to exclude the opening library file. There is only 2 >files. >4. NOW is a chess program twice the size of Chess Genius 2 with an expert >rating. >Jonathan (34th message) After I found the Compute magazine (I had only bought the one) I tried to find out what happened to them, I should look again now that I have internet access, but I couldn't find a thing. It would be an interesting magazine to have access to it's archives. Pete
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