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Subject: Re: A really old chess game source code (1979)

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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