Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:35:26 11/20/99
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On November 20, 1999 at 13:59:36, KarinsDad wrote:
>On November 20, 1999 at 12:42:54, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>
>>
>>I remember I had other chess programs for the TRS-80:
>>* MicroChess 1.5 (worked on a 4Kb TRS-80!)
>>* Sargon I & II
>>* Sfinks
>>* Gambit
>>* ...and mine, which was called Sparph at that time.
>>
>>I'm sure there were some others, but I don't remember exactly about them. Sfinks
>>was probably as good as Sargon II. Somebody has heard about William Fink since
>>that time?
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>I did not even know there were chess programs for the early TRS-80s (I did see a
>demo once later on).
>
>I had an old monochrome TRS-80 with 4K of memory. This was in the late 70s. I
>doubt you could write any chess program then in 4K, but maybe somebody managed
>it.
Actually there was one: MicroChess 1.5 was sold by Tandy Radio Shack on cassette
and ran on the Level I TRS-80. There program was working inside the 3.5Kb free
memory space, and even included a graphical chessboard.
It was however terribly bad at chess. I think it could not see more than 2 or 3
plies ahead, and in this case took ages to play his move.
Sargon II, on the same processor (but with a little bit more memory) was able to
play very quickly at his "instant" level 0 (generally in 1 second) and still was
beating me!
Christophe
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