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Subject: Re: A Computer That Plays Chess!!... Some Early Reminisces

Author: Terry Giles

Date: 13:52:29 03/01/05

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Hi Steve,

I fondly remember playing my first game against a program called ZXChess II for
the Sinclair ZX80. This program was written by a company called Artic computing
and ran in 16K of RAM, this company actually sold a chess program which
amazingly played fully legal chess in only 1K of RAM. Bearing in mind that the
ZX80 used some of that 1K for system variables and flags etc. this chess program
was actually less than 1,000 bytes in size!

I used to own a Fidelity Excellence Chess machine which I really loved and very
occasionally beat, I now own a Novag Sapphire which beats me ad nauseum.

I have since played countless different chess programs and managed to lose at
least one game to virtually all of them. I have however learnt from my mistakes
and can repeat them exactly!

Terry



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