Author: Paul
Date: 12:25:20 04/03/01
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On April 03, 2001 at 13:37:12, Heiner Marxen wrote: >On April 03, 2001 at 06:15:46, Paul wrote: >>I have the Chess 0.5 sources (by Peter Frey & Larry Atkin) in "The Byte Book of >>Pascal" from 1979. You are right about the readability ... I've been tempted >>several times to type it into my computer over the years, but couldn't bring >>myself to it because of it! Does anyone know if it's available online? >Oh, those old days! > >I just talked to an old friend, who (around 1980) did type in exactly this >Pascal program. It did not run properly at first, because of a missing >but crucial semicolon... that was a tough debugging job. >He suspects that it could still be on one of those old magtapes, but we >don't know where we could find a magtape drive... so: sorry, it is not >available online, here. That's a pity ... but nice to hear someone was brave enough to type that in! :) I know your "old" friend wasn't the only one because there was a program called Chess 0.5x by Wim Elsenaar participating in the Dutch CC Championships in the eighties. See http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thstorm/dcc_hist.html . He won in 83 & 84, but later Frans Morsch and Ed Schröder took over from him. His program was way better in those years than anyone elses ... wonder what happened to it/him. You can even download the games from all those CCC's in pgn, didn't know that ... great job, Theo! Anyway ... in those days I didn't even have a decent Pascal compiler for my Acorn BBC Master computer, just a little interpreter ... that was another reason not to type it in ... and later I switched to (Algol68 &) C. I can only say ... those weren't the days! ;) Well, this brings back some nice memories ... think I'm gonna replay some old games now ... Groetjes, Paul
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