A long standing record for the smallest amount of code required to implement a fully-playable game of computer chess has been broken this week. Demo scene group Red Sector released BootChess, which is ...

BootChess is now the smallest computer implementation of chess on any platform at a size of only 487 bytes. BootChess was coded by Olivier Poudade, with assistance from Peter Ferrie, and is a 512-byte ...

BootChess' developer says he hopes to inspire the creation of other small programs A French coder has developed what is thought to be the smallest-sized chess computer program. BootChess is only 487 ...

The world's smallest chess program that operates on Windows, Linux, OS X, DOS, FreeBSD, etc.BootChess"Has appeared. The size is only 487 bytes and has reigned in the world's smallest chess program for ...

In this age of digital bloat, you might be surprised to hear that making a game as small as possible is an attractive challenge. But this tiny implementation of chess is just that—and takes up just ...

For 33 years, the video game 1K ZX Chess was the smallest chess program ever created. Its code took up a mere 672-bytes. (That’s .00064 Megabytes for those of us who still think in terms of floppies ...

Unbeknownst to many, a French coder has been attempting to make the smallest playable chess computer game and has succeeded with his 487-byte game, BootChess. Capable of being played on pretty much ...

Today’s trend seems to be leaning towards larger and larger installs, some clocking in at 40+ GB. Developers are concentrating on bigger textures, lossless sound, and zero compression. Even patches ...

A French coder has developed what is thought to be the smallest-sized chess computer program. BootChess is only 487 bytes in size, external, and the code can be run, external on Windows, Mac OS X and ...