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Re:This is a fully working chess program with graphics. In 1... by halo on Monday September 06, 2010 @10:02AM (#1666671)
Reminded me of 1k ZX Chess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess), an implementation of chess with AI for the ZX-81, a home computer which had a whopping 1k of RAM.
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Re:This is a fully working chess program with graphics. In 1... by pella on Monday September 06, 2010 @11:06AM (#1666793)
...only 672 bytes. source code:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/

and ZX-81 emulator to play the game:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/emulate.php?tzx=0/1KZXChess...

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Re:This is a fully working chess program with graphics. In 1... by caf on Monday September 06, 2010 @10:18AM (#1666715)
That's actually a more impressive achievement, since Z80 assembler is far less expressive than Javascript. And all the display output had to be in that, too!
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