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Posted January 29, 2015
yes you read that correctly
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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/squeezing-a-playable-chess-program-into-487-bytes/
Posted January 29, 2015
*Now with new, carefully curated set of rules.

Still, pretty impressive.
Posted January 29, 2015
Really interesting, reminded me of .kkrieger, the 3D procedurally generated FPS in just 96 KiB(?) of data.
Posted January 29, 2015
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InkPanther: *Now with new, carefully curated set of rules.

Still, pretty impressive.
If the program qualifies for the world record despite the omissions, then I can understand why they did it that way. Still feels like cheating to me, though.
Posted January 30, 2015
Oh lord, where have you been all my life?
Posted January 30, 2015
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neurasthenya: Really interesting, reminded me of .kkrieger, the 3D procedurally generated FPS in just 96 KiB(?) of data.
Yeah, the Farb-rausch people were behind that. They are insane geniuses at compressing content into procedural generation algorithms.
Posted January 30, 2015
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InkPanther: *Now with new, carefully curated set of rules.

Still, pretty impressive.
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Darvin: If the program qualifies for the world record despite the omissions, then I can understand why they did it that way. Still feels like cheating to me, though.
I also wonder if it could have beaten the previous record holder had the missing rules been included.
Post edited January 30, 2015 by kalirion
Posted January 30, 2015
An impressive achievement, but I would be more impressed if he had implemented all the rules.
Posted January 30, 2015
Getting my ass kicked ...in 487 Bytes
Posted January 30, 2015
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neurasthenya: Really interesting, reminded me of .kkrieger, the 3D procedurally generated FPS in just 96 KiB(?) of data.
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Wishbone: Yeah, the Farb-rausch people were behind that. They are insane geniuses at compressing content into procedural generation algorithms.
Dat German efficiency! :D
Posted January 30, 2015
That is pretty impressive... I doubt I could write out the rules of chess in that many bytes, never mind code a playable version... the program can only be about 220 characters long (if I'm understanding correctly how that works)
Posted January 30, 2015
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adaliabooks: That is pretty impressive... I doubt I could write out the rules of chess in that many bytes, never mind code a playable version... the program can only be about 220 characters long (if I'm understanding correctly how that works)
Calling it boot-chess suggests it was written as a boot sector. That means relying on the BIOS and not DOS.

You can do a lot with 100 bytes as i recall. I think i made a compression program in 300 bytes.

As for program size, why would it only be 220? Other than the 16 byte header which would include a jump into the program, you don't have any other overhead. This means probably 450 bytes are program data, not 220. Forget everything else you know about assembly and programming.
Posted January 30, 2015
Interesting.. Here is another one of a type. Tetris in boot sector (with source code).
Post edited January 30, 2015 by DrakoPensulo
Posted July 12, 2016
Wouldn't IBM Chess be squashed into something smaller?
Posted July 12, 2016
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Tauto: Big deal.
You necro'ed this... to post that?

Edit:
Never mind. I didn't realize you were just on an asshat spree, necroing a ton of old threads just to be annoying. Well done you.
Post edited July 12, 2016 by Wishbone
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