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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:43:50 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 16:29:41, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 15:40:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On www.iocc.org, one can even find chess related programs. IIRC, one recent
>>winner was some variant of chess (bughouse?).
>>
>>One of my other favorites was a Basic interpreter in 25 lines or so, that could
>>play lunar lander (anybody can remember that game? We had it on one Commodore
>>computer in the late 70ties).
>
>I remember the program to solve the 8-queens problem. All I know is, it worked
>:)
>
>Anyone have any idea what the smallest source code is to a program that plays
>legal chess? I would guess playing other, simpler games would allow for smaller
>code, since chess has all of those special cases.

I believe this has been discussed at length.
This is pretty short:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {puts("I resign."); return 0;}



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