Re: Challenge
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On 29 Aug 96 at 15:10, D Kirkland wrote:
> Well, the HP48 chess program I am working on is currently
> under 5k. And it need only 3k of free RAM to run. It is
> also much faster then the HP48 program mentioned above.
>
> It plays a perfectly legal game of chess. It includes ALL
> chess moves. The only things missing is that it allows
> repeated positions (chess is a draw when a position repeats
> 3 times), and it allows 50+ moves without a capture or a
> pawn move. The latter is easily fixed if I decide it is
> needed.
>
> As it is, the program is easily the best and fastest playing
> HP48 chess program. But I am not yet finished. The finished
> program will be a bit bigger (still under 10k), but most
> of the extra size will be for features (a board editor that
> will let the user create their own positions is one example).
>
> It currently has 4 levels that are playable (longest moves
> under 10 minutes). I expect to improve this even more.
>
> So, calculator chess is very possible!
>
> (If you guys get assembly programming for the ti92, maybe
> I will pop over and write a near master level chess program
> for you!)
Never mind the TI-92! What about the TI-85? How hard would you reckon
it would be to translate from HP-48 to ZShell (Z80)?
Mattias Lindqvist
CS student at LTH, Sweden
E-mail: d96mli@efd.lth.se
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