Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 13:07:22 03/19/05
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On March 19, 2005 at 15:38:18, Walter Faxon wrote: >On March 19, 2005 at 13:42:26, William H Rogers wrote: > >>I have been playing multiple tournements lately and am now in the process of >>playing tournements with programs written in Basic. >>In passing I found that I have a very old program written for the Radio Shack >>Model 100 portable computer. RS Basic saves programs in a tokenized fashion so >>the occupy the least amount of space. In this case the program was only about 4k >>long. When converted to QBasic and expanded it now occupies about 8k. >>It does not follow 50 move rule or the 3 move repetition and I am not sure if >>allows captures enpassant but for a tiny program it plays fairley well. >>I am not sure how to post the program here or I would. If anyone is interested >>then maybe they can show me how to post the program here. >>Bill > > >I remember seeing in the ACM SIG magazine devoted to APL (probably c. 1976 - >1980) a chess program written in just =one= printed page of APL code! Like most >BASICs, APL programs are usually interpreted so in determining its "size" one >might also want to consider the size of the APL environment. > >Are you more interested in size of source or object code? > >Regarding posting your program, two thoughts: (1) Do you have a copyright >release from whoever wrote/owns the program? (2) If so, I should think it OK to >just cut and paste the source into a post, provided you warn readers in the >subject line that it's a long post. Or maybe some helpful reader would offer to >put it on his/her website? > >Good luck! As far as I know there has been a chess program (without underpromotion) programmed in FORTH using less than 1K. Reinhard.
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