Author: William H Rogers
Date: 07:44:55 05/17/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 18:34:19, Matthew Barnett wrote: >Whilst I was surfing I found http://www.the5k.org where there are 3 chess >programs of 5k each... > >Which reminded me of the early 1980s when there was a 'home' computer called the >Sinclair ZX81 which came with only 1k as its memory - those were the days! (You >could of course add more memory, I think up to a whopping 16k.) You could >'enjoy' a game of chess on your ZX81 1k machine - >http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/ (I think this program actually >takes up less than 1k.) I also seem to remember a similar sized commercial >chess program, although these two could be one and the same. > >Small may not be beautiful or offer a good chess game, but you've got to admire >the ingenuity of these guys when working under these kinds of contingencies. > >I wonder how low it's possible to go...? > >;) The very first chess program written for a 'pc' was MicroChess by Peter Jennings. It was first written for a hand held computer and later rewritten for the TRS-80, Apple and the Commadore computers. In the TRS-80 the program grew to 4k as it had to support graphics. It was a three ply max program that did not castle legally and was only rated at about 600 by leading chess players. It was also the first chess program to sell over 1 million copies in the history of the world. Bill
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