Author: Zach Wegner
Date: 00:25:54 07/31/03
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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. Currently, I am writing such a program for fun and in anticipation of the next IOCCC (when?). It plays both sides, searches 4ply in about a sec, and displays board in 24 lines of <=80 chars of C code. No castling, ep, underpromotion, reps, or 50 move rule, so is it really legal chess?
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