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El Reg.:

> Developer Olivier Poudade claims he's beaten a 33 year-old record for
> the smallest working Chess program.
> 
> The previous record-holder, 1K ZX Chess, ran on the seminal Sinclair
> ZX81 which shipped with just 1K of RAM. 1K ZX Chess was lousy at the
> game, but its mere existence bestowed a little gravitas on the
> easy-to-ridicule ZX81.

Oh yeah? "Easy to ridicule," eh? Well you... smell. So ner.

> Computers have of course sailed past the 1K RAM mark since, so while
> developers have occasionally had a lash at very small Chess
> implementations like Toledo Nanochess, there's been little need to
> write very small versions of the game.
> 
> That hasn't stopped Poudade from releasing “BootChess”, which he
> claims is “the smallest computer implementation of chess on any
> platform” and runs in “in a 512-byte x86 boot sector for Windows /
> Linux / OS X / DOS / BSD”.

Damn. That was the mighty '81's best claim to fame. Apart from running
hypothetical nuclear power stations, obviously. And being the first
under a hundred quid. And just being generally ace and skill all round,
let's be honest.

Still, on the bright side - here's something you can't say every day -
the ZX81 game has better graphics. Also...

> Poudade's claim is being questioned because BootChess appears not to
> allow castling and its AI player sometimes makes illegal moves.

Hurrah! There's still hope! Although actually, as far as I remember, 1K
Chess didn't either. But I don't recall any illegal moves.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/29/zx81_record_falls_as_dev_claims_smallest_chess_code_crown/

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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  Re: Noooooooooooooooo! AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-02-03 07:44 +0000
  Re: Noooooooooooooooo! "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> - 2015-02-03 08:05 +0000
  Re: Noooooooooooooooo! "dottor Piergiorgio M. d' Errico" <chiedetelo@ask.me> - 2015-02-03 13:15 +0100
  Re: Noooooooooooooooo! "Chris Cowley" <chrrris@gmail.com> - 2015-02-05 23:06 +0000
  Re: Noooooooooooooooo! warste@gmail.com - 2017-03-13 09:58 -0700
    Re: Noooooooooooooooo! Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2017-03-14 20:13 +0000
    Re: Noooooooooooooooo! "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-03-18 04:54 +0000

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