Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site polyof.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!ron1!polyof!john From: john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) Newsgroups: net.games,net.chess Subject: Chess program Message-ID: <140@polyof.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 12:19:29 EDT Article-I.D.: polyof.140 Posted: Sun Jul 7 12:19:29 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:18:00 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Polytechnic Inst. of NY, Farmingdale Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.games:2015 net.chess:892 Must of us are familiar with the 'chess' program that is distributed with AT&T unix for pdp11's. (It comes in /usr/games on V7, SYS5). We are also aware that it is written 50% in pdp11 assembler. Many people use 'compat' to run this program on their vaxen. If anyone is interested in a C version (portable to Goulds, Apollos, Micros (aztec C, CI86, Xenix (PC-AT, Intel 310)), etc) I have one. Essentially we recoded (most) of chess in C, and, tried to optimize as we went along. On a pdp11, it runs about 30% slower than the assembler version. Granted, it is not the best chess program around, but for those who are not masters, it plays a decent game. Send me 'mail' if you would like a copy. It is about 40K of C source. John Buck (philabs!ron1!polyof!john or decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!polyof!john)