Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:38:32 04/02/02
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On April 02, 2002 at 13:45:46, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On April 02, 2002 at 10:48:13, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I remember Frank ZIBI (author of Pharaon) demoing his HP calculator based chess
>>program against a P75 chess program.
>>
>>It was in 1996, at the French Computer Chess Championship. Frank was not
>>participating because he had no PC based chess program at that time. He had
>>lended me his P133 so Tiger 8 could participate.
>>
>>His HP program managed to get a draw against the P75! We were all amazed.
>>
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>
>Was there really a program for a handheld calculator that played 100% legal
>chess?
>
>Was it the only such program ever to do so? How strong was it? Could you
>elaborate on this whole topic please (it's fascinating!)?
What I remember on this topic is that the program was written in HP assembly.
The processor IIRC was running at 500KHz (not MHz). The program was able to look
4 plies deep.
I do not know if all the rules of chess were implemented. I guess most of the
relevant ones were.
I think Frank had made his HP program freely available (without the sources).
But I think Frank should answer himself! I'm going to send him an email and
point him to this thread.
Christophe
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