john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) (07/07/85)
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)
oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (08/23/85)
I found out that the UN*X chess program and RSX chess are not the one and the same. They do not even share a common ancestor. The only "sameness" is the user/program dialogue. my apologies. I did not get my facts quite straight. Oz -- Usenet: [decvax|allegra|linus|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yuyetti] You see things; and you say "WHY?" But I dream things that never were; and say "WHY NOT?" G. Bernard Shaw (Back to Methuselah)