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• 512b game MS-Dos BootChess by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Great, I'm alway ready for a good game of chess. So here we go...
  
  White: Boot Chess
  Black: Ham/SFL
  
  1. e2e4 e7e5
  2. Ng1e2 (with this movement, BootChess enters the Alapin's Opening)
  
  Notice that, in the source code, there is a comentary about "hardcoded Spanish Opening"... well, just the first move of the Spanish (1 e4) is really hardcoded so it is misleading to say that BootChess knows that opening (As every good chess player knows, lots of opening starts with 1 e4, not just the Spanish, the Spanish Opening is 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Bb5)
  
  2. ... Ng8f6
  3. Nb1c3 d7d5
  4. e4xd5 Nf6xd5
  5. Nc3xd5 Bf8c5
  
  Till now BootChess played very well but suddenly...
  
  6. Nd5xc7? Qd8xc7
  
  Nxc7 is a bad mistake. BootChess exchange a knight for a pawn.
  
  7. h2h3 Nb8c6
  8. Rh1h2 e5e4
  9. g2g3 f7f5
  10. Bf1g2 Rh8f8
  
  I would like to castle instead of place a rook on f8 but the program does not allow me to do it. So I play Rh8f8.
  
  11. Bg2xe4? f5xe4
  
  Another bad exchange. A bishop for a pawn. This program likes all captures!
  
  12. f2f3 e4xf3
  13. Ke1f2 f3xe2+
  14. Kf2xe2 (screenshot 1)
  
  
  
  It seems that white are lost and soon a checkmate will come. I decided to take the g3 pawn to prepare a decisive attack with queen and rook combined.
  
  14. ... Qc7xg3
  
  But then...
  
  15. Ke2f3?? <-illegal move! (screenshot 2)
  
  
  
  BootChess does not care if his King is placed on a square controlled by the enemy pieces. Very bad and very illegal. This is forbidden by chess rules!
  
  15. ... QxK++
  16. Program exit to MSDOS
  
  Well... It is clear to me that you put more interest in making a small chess program that in making a good chess program. That's understandable even if the result is a program very easy to beat but... you cannot say that BootChess is a complete chess program because it does not allow to castle (didn't tried promotions, underpromotions, en passant pawn captures, stalemate... but I bet that are not supported, are they?) and, worst, it does not care about avoid to place a King in check. Every chess player knows that it is illegal (the movement CANNOT be made) to place your king on a square controlled by your rival pieces. If you allow it, then this is not chess.
  
  I myself coded a few chess engines so I know how hard it is to do it and squeeze it in a small program. So I will not thumb down this nice effort. But you should stop that bragging about breaking records until you make a complete chess program.
• isokadded on the 2015-01-27 20:53:17
• 16k Amstrad CPC Battro by Batman Group
• Good 16K.
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-25 21:49:39
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Amigaluscious by Onslaught [web]
• It's good that you did it for A500 but... it would be better with less preposterous content.
• isokadded on the 2015-01-23 14:27:13
• musicdisk Commodore 64 Sid Doing Paula by Arkanix Labs [web]
• Just great!
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-20 21:59:18
• demotool Linux Windows Amiga AGA Amiga OCS/ECS MacOSX Intel Shrinkler by Loonies [web]
• A great improvement over execruncher2.
  This is the best cruncher by far. Always lose enough kilobytes away.
  It has lots of options to scratch a little bit more.
  Thank you very much, Blueberry, for this amazing tool.
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-06 00:46:57
• 64k Windows libidinal bribes by Stroboholics
• Too much text. The rest is great.
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-01 04:37:49
• intro Windows tAAt 2015 by tAAt [web]
• Good music and nice effect!
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-01 01:51:12
• demo Amstrad CPC hny2015 by g0blinish
• Nice little prod!
• rulezadded on the 2014-12-30 18:09:41
• demo Amiga AGA Optigan by Traction [web]
• Cute demo.
• rulezadded on the 2014-12-22 22:50:38
• 40k Amiga OCS/ECS Dunne Lul by Da Jormas [web]
• Perhaps a little bit unpolished but I like it.
• rulezadded on the 2014-12-22 22:46:47