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Re: Chess programs for GS?



In article <5ltmki$4ts$11@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>"I set out to write the Great American Chess Program but none
>of the assemblers could come close to holding that kind of
>memory.  I was so new at programming that I didn't know that
>you couldn't put an IBM mainframe-style assembler on an Apple
>II.  So that's what I wrote.  To this day, I don't think any
>of the other Apple II assemblers comes close to it in features.
>In fact, I don't think any of the IBM assemblers comes close to
>its features.  I still haven't written that chess program....."

   Aww, man, you give away waaaay too much here. Tip: this person
wrote an assembler. And then a few other programming languages... :)

Nathan Mates

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