World smallest chess program

[Vincent Diepeveen]

Nice to see Harm-Geert active here too

Vincent

p.s. smallest chessprogram on planet in C:

#include <stdio.h>
main() {
printf("i resign\n");
return 0;
}

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Nice to see Harm-Geert active here too

Currently "Here" includes comp.lang.c, and IMHO the discussion has
become sufficiently un-C-like that it would be best to remove
comp.lang.c from the followup list. Thanks. (f'ups set)

 

[Guy Macon]

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Resigning is *not* a Chess move, it is merely exercising your right to
stop playing Chess. At any turn someone playing a Chess game has the
choice to play (a move) or to resign or forfeit on time (= not play).
Not playing does not violate FIDE rules. But that does not make not
playing playing Chess.

So the worlds smallest/simplest chess program would make a move,
wait until the other side moves, *then* resign.

 

[Richard Bos]

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So the worlds smallest/simplest chess program would make a move,
wait until the other side moves, *then* resign.

Just as the world's smallest OS would give you a file, trash it, and
then crash. So why is MS Windows so bleedin' large?

Richard