Author: Will Singleton
Date: 22:44:16 09/19/03
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On September 20, 2003 at 00:52:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 20, 2003 at 00:23:24, Will Singleton wrote: > >>On September 19, 2003 at 23:52:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>It is for the PDP: >>>http://www.tribug.org/pub/tuhs/PDP-11/Trees/V7/usr/src/games/chess/ >> >>It actually looks kinda OK for 1979. The assembly is easy to read, just like >>6502. Not much in the way of comments. Do you know what it was called? Any >>other history? Was this the basis for other chess programs? >> >>You wouldn't happen to have an executable and pdp emulator, would you? > >You can get a PDP simulator called SIMH, but you will also need the compiler and >assembler. Don't really know if they come with it. > >I noticed it has some advanced features like quiescent search. > The concept of the qsearch was, I think, included in Shannon's original 1950 paper. Let's see, Greenblatt's MacHack was for the PDP-6? Perhaps this is related to MacHack? Will
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